Karel Abraham will start from nine nineteenth position on the grid to the Grand Prix of USA at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The Czech rider crashed a few moments before the end of qualification practice, thus he missed to ride last two fast laps. The final position is a big disappointment for Karel, even though he is struggling with virus since the Sachsenring.
Karel Abraham:
"Today is a big disappointment. The crash is useless to commentate. As to everyone else, I do like to ride laps behind someone rider, so I slowed to wait to Randy De Puniet which was closed to me. Though I slowed down only in one corner, bike slipped after rolling on the gas probably because tyres went cold. This could not happen even there is no hot weather here. I know I made a big problem for tomorrow. It´s very difficult to overtake at Laguna, because there are not any long straights. And that´s also the reason why the circuit is very exacting physically and after two weeks of fever I´m not feeling good. Tomorrow it won´t be impossible to collect few points with some luck. But definitely I have no reason to be in good mood."
Marco Grana, chief mechanic Cardion AB Motoracing
"The entire weekend did not start bad. On Friday morning we were in top fifteen. We had the problem with setting of the rear part of the bike and it was obvious that Karel is not feeling good and it´s hard for him to ride. In spite of that we were hoping to be around fifteenth position on Saturday. Today we were not able to continue with results of the previous day, we did not get faster and we had lot of problems. The race has 32 laps and it will be tough race for Karel because he is still struggling with flu. We will try to set up the bike to make easier work for Karel that it won´t be so physically exacting. I hope that after summer break we will be able to throw problems of first part of the season away and that Karel will be in back in shape."
Cardion AB Motoracing Press Release
