Despite strong pain Karel Abraham has finished home race. The Czech rider was fighting with Bryan Staring and he defended his position in front of him. Second Czech rider in premier class, Lukáš Pešek crashed out in second lap.
Karel Abraham
"The aim for today was to finish the race. From this point of view it was not bad today however nineteenth position is not a result we can be happy about. This morning I tried to ride without anesthetics in the warm up to raise efficiency of them during the race. After the start I got in front of Lukáš but in the third corner Aoyama took me little bit out side and Lukáš overtook me. In Schwantz corner Bauer hit me and I don’t even understand how is possible that I managed it. However it was quit bad because it slowed me down a lot and so my body absolved another collision and my shoulder has started to hurt more. Essentially I ride the race with Staring and since a second half of the race I was thinking about the retirement because of the pain. When remained only eight laps to go I have decided to try to finish the race. We will see what bring next week. For now we are considering to skip the race and come back in good shape in Misano."
Marco Grana, chief mechanic of team Cardion AB Motoracing
"We finished the race and that is the maximum we could want considering Karel’s health condition after Indianapolis. Karel deserves a compliment because he gave everything to the race even he had nothing to lose he finished it. The bike worked well. Of course the nineteenth position is not our position but in this moment it was the maximum that we could reach. I think that Karel should skip one race and use tree weeks of break to get in better shape. It does not mean hundred percent but I believe he could be eighty percent OK."
Cardion AB Motoracing Press Release
