Jasper Iwema and Jakub Kornfeil leave Barcelona with a DNF behind their names. After a bad qualification the Moto3 race of the Catalan GP turned out to be even more dramatic for RW Racing GP. Iwema crashed in the first lap already, Kornfeil entered the pits in the 12th lap after he damaged his bike in lap 4.
Jasper Iwema had a great start of the race from 26th. Halfway the opening lap he had moved up to 15th already. But in the stadium section of the Circuit de Catalunya Iwema collided with Niko Ajo and the two of them collected Toni Finsterbusch in their fall. None of them got injured, but it was impossible to continu the race.
Jakub Kornfeil was in front of Iwema when this happened. The Czech had a brilliant start as well, moving up from 17 to 9 in the first corner. Kornfeil made a few mistakes in the following laps, dropped back to 16, but was on the way to the front and fighting for 10th when Livio Loi crashed in front of him.
In Turn 5 of lap 5 Kornfeil had to move through the gravel to avoid Loi. Kornfeil came back on track as second last. In the gravel he damaged the tires and that made it difficult to control the bike. Chatter became so bad Kornfeil decided to pull in after 12 laps.
Jarno Janssen - Team manager
"It is a shame but there nothing we can do about it. We have to learn from our mistakes and look forward. The next race is one of the most important races of the season for us, as the Dutch TT is the teams and Jaspers home race. We have to get ourselves back together for that."
RW Racing Press Release
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