Andrea Locatelli ‘not fully there when trying to push, but confidence is high’

Andrea Locatelli says his confidence w൩ith the R1 is ‘quite high’, but when trying to push for a fast lap time it’s ‘not fully there’.

Andrea Locatelli
Andrea Locatelli

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Locatelli managed to match 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea’s lap time in the closing stages of the Catalunya WorldSBK test, however, the Italian s𒉰truggled to mat✨ch Rea’s consistency.

After a brilliant opening roꦬund where he could have won Race 2, Locatelli cemented himself as one of the series’ top riders. 

But feeling less than 100% fit fur to his crash on the final lap of Race 2 in Phillip Island, Locatelli admitted he wasn’t able to🅰 get the best from his R1.

Speaking after day-two, Locatelli added: “It was an inter💮esting day – It’s always a bit strange riding here compared to some other circuits, we know that on this track we can🐈 have some wheel spin compared to Phillip Island.

“In Australia the grip from the new tarmac was incredible, so here is another condition and it is important to learn and know wh🎃at we can improve in the set-up to manage this.

“But in the end, I think we did a good job – I have good confidence and a good feeling on my R1. I am not 100% physically, because when I crashed in Phillip Island, I had some pain in my knee – the confidence on the bike is quite high like always but my feelingౠ when I am trying to push is not quite fully there.

“We did a lot of laps, understood a lot of things but we will see d🥃uring the race because that can be an▨other story.”

With Kawasaki competitive in Phillip Island thanks to Alex Lowes, Ducati and BMW being in the mix, and Rea seemingly making a step forward with his R1, challengers🍌 for race wins could be even higher at round two this weekend.

But Locatelli wants to focus on what he can control: “We are always focused only on ourselves during testing to ꦅtry to do the ﷽best job – I was happy we did a lot of laps on used tyres yesterday.

“Unfortunately today during the long run we had a ဣtechnical proble🍷m so we lost a little bit this opportunity.

“Now I have💜 some 🐠days to recover at home and I hope to be fighting again for the podium next week.”

At G🗹RT Yamaha, Remy Gardner was the standout rider particularly on day-one as he challenged Rea for top sp♏ot on multiple occasions.

After a test that also involved a crash on day-one, the Australian said: "It was a solid test overall, we did ♎some good work in my opinion.

“We focused on long dist🃏ance runs and I can say I'm satisfied with the job done, it was a🌠 productive test.

“Unfortunately, a small crash slowed the whole process on the first day; despite having a decent feeling with the hard soft front tyre, it probably got cold and I ended up ಞcrashi💯ng at Turn 5.

“That didn't prevent us from improving and our pace is good, even though we know there's still margin to improve💦.

“Unfortunately, I wasn't able to p༺ut together all my best sectors duꦚring my fast lap, but we can be confident for the race weekend."

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