the opening day of Grand Prix de Portugal has started in a similar vein to the first day in Jerez with part-wet surface in the morning whilst the afternoon session was held in dry conditions with premier class riders starting to set up properly their bikes packages.
LCR Honda MotoGP´s Stefan Bradl, who has been in impressive form in his rookie season, taking an eighth and seventh place so far, is drawing on the fact that his last outing at Estoril was a victory (in Moto2 class) but the German could not finish any higher than twelfth (1’40.898) and is hoping to improve his pace ahead tomorrow’s qualifying session.
Stefan: “So far it has been the most difficult day in my MotoGP career I guess... I had a very bad feeling with our rear grip and we are losing so much in the corners entries. Especially in the middle of the corners I do not have enough rear grip because I can not warm up the tyre properly and this cause me a lot of movements. Like this I can not be aggressive as usual but we have a lot of adjustments to try tomorrow checking the data. We are not lost so I am confident we can better our pace”.
LCR Honda Press Release
LCR Honda Press Release
