The Grand Prix in Doha was the debut race for the CRT, motion between the most mistreated throughout the history of the championship. In the "second" league has made a difference the experience of the old fox Colin Edwards, 12 ° to the finish line His Suter , after the last winter tests gave the impression of having to surrender to ART De Puniet. The detachment suffered by Texan was certainly not the first by a tight, almost a minute at the finish line, but his performance was clearly the best among the derivatives of the series, with 13 °, the French team Aspar, more than 12 seconds .
" The start was a bit 'critical, but once on the track I knew I was faster than the others and left behind when I started thinking about doing a good pace - explains Colin Edwards - I had a little trouble in mid-race The bike started making some strange noise at turn 3 and I thought it was my fault, I lifted the bike ahead of time and I think this has a little 'confused electronics that did not know how to react. This has hurt me for a ride, but p or I'm back on my pace until I saw Spies in front of me. I thought I had a problem and I pushed hard but it was not enough . The bike better and better. There is still much to do of course. Jerez is not an easy track for us: short, narrow, complicated. At least this was a moment of relaxation . "
The only Italian to cross the finish line was Mattia Pasini , 17 ° and outside the points. " S ono happy with the way the race, after these days of testing we have found the way to work and make progress step by step - says optimistically rider Speed Master - We had tried some changes that we probably would have done later. Then we focused on doing more kilometers as possible, to gain experience with ART. In the race I managed to be fairly constant, to maintain a good pace and improve my feeling lap after lap. It was a beautiful race, and we collected a lot of important data . Maybe we could do a little 'better and finish a few positions later, but there was no need to risk. Having done many miles this winter, our priority was and is to do as many laps as possible, to prepare and improve in the premier class . "
Michele Pirro is unfortunately not able to finish his first race in the premier class, stopped by his FTR-Honda: " Unfortunately we continue to suffer from technical problems of youth and I am sorry because today I managed to also make a good start . Shortly after, however, created problems for me behind the wheel and I could not help but return to the pits. For us it was almost a competition test and I am sorry because the evidence had been shown to have a good pace and maybe if it were not for this problem we could have done a good race . But we realize that the bike is young and need a lot of patience and better times will come for us . "
Same fate for Danilo Petrucci and his Ioda during the ninth through the gears was added to a firmware problem, the speed limiter for pit lane. From that moment his TR003 has started to lose grip causing him to retire at the end of the sixteenth session while occupying the eighteenth position. " I'm not very happy with how it went today - Terni said - I did not start well but once I recovered a couple of positions up to fight for the sixteenth place Pasini, passing several times. P or a technical problem and it seemed driving in the wet so I decided to retire because it was too risky to continue . Finish the race would have been a good result considering that here I was paying a great gap power with my rivals. Unfortunately it was not so, now we have to look at Jerez with confidence, where I hope I tend to do better account of test results . "
source: GP One
