Team Astana is wasting no time in the off season resting up and taking holiday.  This week three of the team leaders travel to San Diego, California, USA to carry out testing in the wind tunnel.  Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer will each spend time in the tunnel perfecting their positions with the idea of improving their aerodynamic positions.  A long-time advocate of time in the tunnel, team manager Johan Bruyneel continues to see improvement in his riders after adjusting their positions on the tt bike.

During the 2008 racing season Contador made changes in his position and saw improvement in his results. “We found a position more evenly spread over the bike and we also changed my handlebar position last time,” commented Contador.  “I noticed the improvement a lot and for that reason I want to continue working on this.”

The work in the wind tunnel will be focused on improving the bike positions as well as provide information for the design a new time trial helmet.

“I go back into the tunnel with a lot of motivation,” continued Contador.  “The race results are usually very close and I think I still have a good margin of improvement available on the time trial bike.”