Raul Fernandez: “I had no grip, I’m very disappointed, second group was realistic”
Rau🙈l Fernandez believes he could have secured a top ten at le Mans had it not been for a lack of grip.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez claimed P11 for the Trackhouse Aprilia team, on a day where team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Miguel Oliveira had to retire from the French MotoGP.
Fernandez eventually finished the race 11 seconds down on Alex Marquez, however, the S🍨paniard believes he could have been part of the battle for 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 just gone in the race𓂃. I had no grip -ꦐ I couldn’t manage the race well because my pace was just too slow.
“I’m very disappointed after today; I wanted to fin🔯ish the race in the seco🍎nd 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 yest🐻erday and I simply had no 🐻feeling.
“I couldn’t ♎really use the rear brake an𒁏d it was very difficult to manage 27 laps like this. Day 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 r෴ider from showing his true pace.
Despite continuing with th💎e issue for another ten laps, Oliveira ultimately callওed it a day.
Oliveira said: “The race was quite good, I was having a dec🥃ent pace but soon iꦉnto 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 me a proper limit to the performance in terms of how the electronics were managing engine brake, torque deliveꦺry, 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 sound I could tell that it was som꧙ething related to the exhaust.
“The team is still investigating it and together we’ll see whatꦫ we can do to avoid this in the future.”
