After a home race for the team at Misano last time out, this weekend it is the turn of Alvaro Bautista as the MotoGP World Championship heads to Spain for the third time this season. It may be a long way from his home town of Talavera de la Reina but Alvaro will have plenty of local support at Motorland Aragon, where he is determined to make up for a disappointing result in Italy, when a positive run of form was ended by a bizarre setback that was out of his hands. Bryan Staring's race ended early at Misano due to a technical problem and he is hoping to recover ground this weekend as he looks to end his debut MotoGP season in positive fashion and build towards his home Grand Prix in just a few weeks time.
Alvaro Bautista
“I am still feeling frustrated about the race at Misano because I didn't have the opportunity to compete as I would've liked. It would've been nice to give the team and sponsors a good result to celebrate but I felt powerless to ride faster and we still don't know what really happened because I couldn't ride comfortably. We didn't make any changes to the setting compared to practice but the feeling wasn't the same and I was unable to fight for a better result. We kept the same setting for the test on Monday and I was able to ride almost a second faster, which shows that on Sunday there was something strange happened. Anyway at Aragon we will use the new material from Showa and Nissin that we tested on Monday at Misano and which gave us some positive feedback. Last year we had a lot of problems at this circuit but this year we arrive with a more competitive bike so I am sure that we can be fast like we have been in the last races. Obviously we need to work hard from the first session on Friday. The track is unusual with some fast sections and some slow sections, it has a long straight and some long and demanding direction changes. It isn't easy to find the right compromise with the engine and the setting but one good thing about Aragon is that you can make overtakes at various points on the circuit.”
Bryan Staring
“Misano should have ended up with a good result for me but instead it finished with a retirement. I am still pretty disappointed about that but I certainly haven't lost any of my determination to finish my first season in MotoGP in the best possible way. Aragon is an opportunity to make up for the result at Misano and I will certainly be giving it my best shot.”
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