A nasty wind that tortured the Losail Circuit made the second day of the GP of Qatar difficult. The circumstances in the desert were too tricky. RW Racing GP’s riders Jakub Kornfeil and Jasper Iwema avoided to take too many risks. Therefore both riders ended up outside the top 10: Kornfeil in 13th with 2.10.300, Iwema in 19th with 2.10.920.
Both Kornfeil and Iwema showed the capability to ride in the top 10 on several occasions during FP3. But when it came down to setting a fast lap, in the last 10 minutes of the session, the wind became stronger and it even started to rain lightly. They decided to take not too many risks and avoided to ride on the very limit to set a time.
Team manager Jarno Janssen agreed with his riders: "There is no point in riding on the limit under these conditions. I rather have two bikes and two riders in one piece in the garage. It was a free practice; when the conditions are like this in tomorrow’s qualifying practice they will have to ride on the limit, but not now."
Jakub Kornfeil (13):
"I am not happy. I wanted to ride: as much as possible and as fast as possible. But it wasn’t possible. Some riders had enough confidence to ride it to the limit and set a fast lap time. That’s their risk. I didn’t feel like taking so many risk. I will if I have to, in qualifying."
Jasper Iwema (19):
"I was in the top 10 a few times and I was confident I could do even better. But then the wind became more like a storm and we were almost blown off the bike. We only had one session today and that was blown away. Let’s just hope the rest of the weekend will be better, because I’m eager to perform."
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