Raul Fernandez: “I had no grip, I’m very disappointed, second group was realistic”
Raul Ferna🌳ndez believes he could have secured a top ten at le Mans had it not been🐻 for a lack of grip.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Raul Fernandez claimed P11 for the Trackhouse Aprilia team, on a day where team-mate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Miguel Oliveira had to retire from the French MotoGP.
Fernandez eventually finished the race 11 seconds down on Alex Marquez, however, the Spaniard believes he could have been part of the battle f﷽or sixth.
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“The race today was very complicated,” said Fernandez. “Yesterday, my ninth place in the Sprint was very real, today I was just lucky🌼 to end up in P11 and finishing the race.
“The feeling that I had yesterday and this morning was 𒊎just gone in the race. I had no grip - I couldn’t manage the race well because my pace was just too slow.
“I’m very disappointed after today;🌼 I wanted to finish the race in the second group, which was realistic.
“Yesterday we had the pace to stay with them but today I was very slow, couldn’t do thꦑe same lap times like yesterday and I simply had no fe𒆙eling.
“I couldn’t really use the rear brake and it was very difficult to manage 27 laps like this. Day by day, we are working well and improved but today was ho💝nestly not our best day.
“We have to analyse th🔜is well now and continue to improve in Barcelona.”
For Oliveira, a technical issu🦩e early on prevented𝄹 the Portuguese rider from showing his true pace.
Despite continuing with the ♍issue for another ten laps, Oliveira ultimately called it a day.
Oliveira said: “The race was quite good, I was having a decent pace but soon into the race I had a te🐲chnical issue with the exhaust.
“Then I continued for about 10 laps with this problem to a point where it caused me a proper limit t♈o the performance in terms of how the electronics were managing engine brake, torque delivery, etc.
“So, I had to retire the bike to avoid doing further damage - at that point I didn’t know what it was but, for sure, by the difference in the ജsound I could t🌟ell that it was something related to the exhaust.
“The team is 🌊s🌊till investigating it and together we’ll see what we can do to avoid this in the future.”
