But the feeling never really came, despite some progress on our final run. After spending some time in the garage waiting for conditions to improve a little, we put in wet tyres and went out to try and get as much info as possible. This morning a deluge came just minutes after the green lights signaled the start of the session. We completed exactly one and a half laps in the dry today. Firstly, because it’s not ideal to have to learn a new track in this kind of weather of course.
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Having been going strong earlier in the wet afternoon session, come the end of it, Lecuona took 13th, gaining valuable track time, although he’ll hope for a fair crack at the action in dry conditions throughout the remainder of the Pirelli French Round. Building up slowly from 18th after his first flying laps, he was inside the top eight before ultimately finishing in tenth at the end of the session.Īt Team HRC, it was a day of discovery as Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge took to the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours for the first time in their careers. The rider in form and one of the fastest around the Magny-Cours circuit, reigning World Champion Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK) was fast in the morning to finish third overall, but in the wet he was also on the pace. It was a welcome return for his team-mate Michael van der Mark (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team), with the Dutchman making his second comeback from injury this year and placing ninth, with both factory BMW riders in the top ten in the wet conditions. Redding was just half a second from a top six placing in the wet and will hope that if the weather is tricky in the races, the valuable 17 laps from FP2 will put him in a good place to make the most of the M1000RR package. His team-mate, Kohta Nozane, had his strongest Friday of the year and was eighth in the wet afternoon session.įor BMW, it was a solid opening day despite tricky conditions with Scott Redding (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) taking seventh at the end of FP2. Bassani was second ahead of Garrett Gerloff (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team), with the American sixth, although he crashed with a highside on the exit of Turn 12, resulting in a red flag for debris. Whilst the factory riders and teams were scattered throughout the order, there was plenty of reason to smile inside the top ten for the Independent riders.Īxel Bassani (Motocorsa Racing) led the majority of the session before being pushed back to second, the only rider (apart from Rea) to lap in the 1’50s, of which Rea got down to a 1’49.379. But the initial feeling here with the bike is good.” Alex Lowes Hopefully we will have a bit more consistent weather for Saturday. I am happy with the first day while understanding that it was a bit strange with the weather. We have improved the rear of the bike at the last test, trying to get more grip in the dry and that has transferred over to the rain too. I was more happy with my pace in the rain I felt really good on the bike in the rain. I am always good at getting down to pace quite quickly. “ I am not worried about being fastest as everybody got a couple of dry laps this morning.
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