Raul Fernandez calls COTA race ‘very special, an incredible day for me’
Raul Fernandez was🎶 one place lower than his sprint finish but the 🌸former KTM rider called his P10 at COTA ‘very special’.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez finished ahead of team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Miguel Oliveira for the second consecutive MotoGP race, after claiming a season-best P10.
Fernandez, who failed to finish the first two grᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚand prix’ of 2024, was two seconds clear of Oliveira at the checkered flag.
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“I’m very happy to end this race in a good way,” said Fernandez, who finished ninth in the sprint race on Saturday. “First of a💝ll, I’m back feeling very comfortable on the bike, which is the key to go fast.
“It was an incredible day, a very special one for me😼 and my group to start my 100th GP at the team’s home track.
“We know that it’s very im💜portant to be in a good position in the first two laps in MotoGP and at the beginning of the race, I was almost at the back of the field.
“It was difficult to manage that, tricky to conserve 🌠the front tire with the slipstream. I was pushing a lot and trying to over🍒take the other riders so a top 10 is a good result for us but, of course, we want more and we know there is a margin.
“We saw that our bike is working very well but, we take it step by step. After the first two disappointing rounds of this season, we are in the🤪 points now and this is gre༺at.”
With Maverick Vin꧃ales winning aboard the RS-GP and Aleix Espargarꦐo in seventh, more was expected from Oliveira who is also riding the 2024-spec RS-GP.
However, the Portuguese rider was impacted by contact with Franco Morbidelli which resulted i🧜n him losing several places.
Speaking post-race, Oliveira addღed: “Today was alright. I had the feeling that the result could have been very different but I got caught up with Morbidelli making me lose a lot of time and like four or five places.
“I had to recover from that after he had crashed and his bike went across the track. It was a split second decision whether I go inside and risk hitting him or go to the outside 💎and try to avoid him, as his bike was coming towards me.
“That was the incident that really destroyed my chances to do better. The pace was not bad, I closed back to the group and started to overtake as soon as I cou🅺ld without losing much time.
“In the last three laps, I was already really ꧅tired and I couldn’t attack Raul to make it a t🌳op 10 finish.”