Raul Fernandez: “I had no grip, I’m very disappointed, second group was realistic”
Raul Fer🌊nandez 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 Spaniard ꦅbelieves 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 pla꧟ce 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 race. I had no grip - I couldn’t 🎀manage the race well bec🍎ause my pace was just too slow.
“I’m ver🔯y disappointed after today; I wanted to finish the𓂃 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 si𝐆mply had no feeling.
“I couldn’t really use ꧅the rear brake and it was very difficult to manage 27 laps like this. Day by day, we are working ཧwell and improved but today was honestly not our best day.
“We have to analyse this w𒉰ell now and continue to improve in Barcelona.”
For Oliveira, a techꦅnical issue early on prevented the Portuguese rider from showing his true pace.
Despite continuing with the issue for another ten laps, Oliveira ൲ultimately called 🅺it a day.
Oliveira said: “The race was quite good, I was 𓆏having a decent 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 poi🌄nt where it caused me 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 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 something related to the exhaus🎉t.
“The team is still investigating it and together we’ll see what we can do to avoid this in the futu🥀re.”
