Fermin Aldeguer: “Marc Marquez is my idol, Alex is my team-mate”
Fermin Aldeguer rolls the dice on the medium rear tyre and emerges with a Sprint podium at the Aragon Mo꧅toGP.
A cl♋ever medium rear tyre gamble helped MotoGP rookie Fermin Aldeguer claim his secoꦰnd Sprint podium of the season on Saturday at Aragon.
Starting from seventh place, the Gresini rider was up to fifth on lap one, then picked off Pedro Acosta and Franco Morbidelli to join team-mate Alex Marquez and title leader Marc Marquez on the rostrum.
“We were very fast!” 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aldeguer said. “Maybe the Sprint is too short for the medium to work, but we did a god job when we took this decis❀ion and now we have more information for tomorrow.”
While the soft rear was the overwhelming favourite for the half-distance race, the medium is set to dominate the grand prix grid – when Aldeguer will be one of only five riders to have extra knowledge of the tyre from the Sprint.
“Why don’t we try it. We’re rookies. If we f♛ܫinish seventh, we don’t take a lot of points [anyway] but we will have more info for tomorrow,” Aldeguer said.
“Today it was good and I’m 🌱super happy with the d𓃲ecision.”
“We talked with the team, maybe thꦬe medium wouldn’t perform on the first laps.
"But Frankie [Carchedi, crew chief] said to me, now you know the Michelin tyre. If you try to push more than the grip y🧸ou have, maybe you’ll lose more time. Be calm and do the race lap by lap.
“In the start, I fought with Pedro, but the tꦡyre wasn’t ready. Then after some laps it was better. We managed the race well.”
The young Spaniard admitted that being a rookie means he has more freedom to make such tyre decisions.
“Also Marc probabꦅly knew the me✨dium was better, but he had more to lose,” he said.
“I jus🀅t said, ‘if I feel good with this tyre, why don’t we try it?’ We are rookies. We played with this advantage.”
Aragon was the second time this seaso꧑n that Aldeguer has joined the Marqu༺ez brothers on the Sprint rostrum, after his debut top three at Le Mans.
“It's super nice. Marc is my idol. Alex is my team-mate. Now we will have party in Gresini hospital🃏it🌳y. It can’t be better – unless I’m first!” he smiled.
Aldeguer, eighth in the wo𒁏rld championship, will be chasing his second grand prix podium of the season on Sunday.
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