Raul Fernandez: “I had no grip, I’m very disappointed, second group was realistic”
Raul Fernandez believes he could 🐲have secured a top ten at le Mans had it notꦉ 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 hav♌e been part of the battle for sixth.
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“The race today was very compl🍬icated,” said Fernandez. “Yesterday, my ninth place in the Sprint was very real, today I was just lucky to end up in P11 and finis෴hing the race.
“The feeli🍸ng that I had yesterday and this morning was just gone in the race. I had no grip - I couldn’t manage the race wel🤡l because my pace was just too slow.
“I’m veꦗry disappointed after today; I wanted to fi♐nish 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 the༺ same lap times like yesterday and I simpl♚y had no feeling.
“I couldn’t really use the rear brake and it was very difficult to manage 27 laps like this. Da𒁃y by day, we are working well and improved ♔but today was honestly not our best day.
“We have to analyse this well now and 🧸continue to improve in Barcelona.”
For Oliveira, a technical issue early on prevented 🥂the Portuguese rider from showing his truꦚe pace.
Despite c💛ontinuing with the issue for another ten laps, Oliveira ultimately✃ called it a day.
Oliveira said: “The🍌 race was quite good, I was having a dece🌜nt pace but soon into the race I had a technical issue with the exhaust.
“Then I continued for about 10 laps with this problem to a point where it caused 𒐪me a proper limit to 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 f꧑urther damage - at that point I didn’t know what it was but, for sure, by the difference in the sound I could tell that it was something related to the exhaust.
“The team is still investigating it and together we’ll see what we can do to avoid tꦛhis in the future.”
