The weather continues to be the true protagonist of the Gran Prix of Spain. After the fallen rain in the morning forcing to effect the free practice on the wet, the track of Jerez Circuit has gone drying during the qualifying of the three classes.
Danilo Petrucci gets the eighteenth time in MotoGP class with 1’44.645 to 5.113 from the pole position of Jorge Lorenzo. The Came Iodaracing Team rider the has done ythe qualifying practice with very difficult conditions, the asphalt still had a lot of damp parts and with the slick tyres the grip was to the limit.
A crash conditions the practice of Simone Corsi that he finishes to the eighteenth place to 1.349 from the best time of Marquez. The Roman rider occupied the third position when at the seventh lap because of a mistake he went out of the dry trajectory and crashed. A frantic job of the Came Iodaracing Team mechanics, that has restored the damaged bike in just eight minutes, has allowed Simone to be able to effect the last two laps.
More complicated the qualifications of the Moto3 began on the wet and you finished with the almost dry track. Gigio Morciano has shown to be to his ease with the TR002 on the wet where he has not had particular problems. In the last minutes the young rider of the Ioda Team Italia has risked the choice of the slick tyres for first but for a problem of loss of power of his engine you/he/she has not improved his position.
“This practices were very difficult – Petrucci has declared – considering that the conditions in these two days are continually changed. In the qualifying the asphalt in some points was still damp and needed to have a very good feeling with the grip of the slick tyres to make the time. I have preferred to not risk too much for the chattering and for not to ruin the job done with the team in these days considering that we have found some good solutions under all conditions”.
“I’m very disappointed – Simone Corsi said – because this crash ha wasted the great job made by my team during this week end because we are very competitive in all conditions. Tomorrow I will be a very hard race, I need to attack since the start for fighting for the podium”.
"In the wet these days we did not go badly and we have solved the problems we had in Qatar - said Luigi Morciano - just unfortunate that we had a loss of engine power just when we put the slicks to try to scale the grid for the race tomorrow. "
“On the wet we are quite competitive ad we have solved many problems suffered in Qatar – Morciano has declared – unfortunately my engine has lost power when I used on the slick tyres trying to improve my position on the grid”.
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