The LCR Honda MotoGP rider Stefan Bradl takes another positive 9th place in today’s 28-lap Grand Prix of Portugal at Estoril holding the 7th position in the world classification with 24 points after three rounds only.
The complex, bumpy and narrow Estoril circuit is always a special challenge, especially for MotoGP rookies like Bradl but the German rinding the Honda RC213V made a typically professional job of his first weekend here on a MotoGP bike ending free practice in tenth and demonstrating his skills in the qualifying session until a red flag incident which relegated him on 11th post on the grid.
Stefan Bradl
“Well... this has been a very hard weekend for us in general. We have struggled a lot with rear grip immediately on Friday morning but Saturday we have found some good adjustments. Unfortunately for the all race we had some issues going into the corners. My start was ok and I could make some good manoeuvres in the beginning but then I was a bit on the limit and in the middle of the race I was losing too much in the corners entries which was our problem all the time during this weekend. Especially in the fast corners I needed to wait in opening the throttle and this cost us a lot of time. We have never had this problem before and Spies had a better pace than us during the race but I can say this is another good weekend for me and the Team”.
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