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FP 1 and FP 2 DONE IN P 6, DIFFERENT FEELINGS FROM MORNING TO AFTERNOON!
First day in the books from the Catalunya Round; positive start for Andrea Iannone and Team Go Eleven who achieved sixth place in both Friday sessions, focusing their work on race pace. Different feelings, however, from the morning and the afternoon, without major changes in the set-up of the Ducati Panigale V4-R.
FP 1 proved to be a rather positive session, the rider from Vasto managed to consistently lap on 41, without pushing too hard to look for the laptime, the goal was rather to evaluate the 900 rear tyre over the long distance. The feedback was good, some small adjustments were necessary to try to find more grip and the tyre comparison was moved to the afternoon.
P 1 T. Razgatlioglu 1.41.199
P 2 M. Van Der Mark + 0.046
P 3 J. Rea + 0.201
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P 6 A. Iannone + 0.298In FP 2 Andrea’s feeling proved to be worse than in the session that ended a few hours earlier. A first outing with the 900 placed him in the top six places, but he was not very consistent in replicating the laps; the second attempt with the SCX tyre, indicated as the best performing among the “raceable” ones, provided slower but stable laptimes over the distance. At the end of the session the number 29 said he wasn’t very satisfied with the afternoon, trying to analyze the data together with the team to identify the differences compared to the morning. Overall, however, a good session, finishing in the Top 6. The second sector, the weak point so far here at Montmelò, needs to be improved for Saturday; most of the gap from the top is accumulated precisely from turns 3 to 5.
Free Practice 2:
P 1 N. Bulega 1.40.907
P 2 A. Bautista + 0.247
P 3 D. Petrucci + 0.601
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P 6 A. Iannone + 0.971
Andrea Iannone (Rider):
“This morning we were very fast, I had a good feeling with the bike and I was very excited, but this afternoon, despite having the same bike set-up and the same tyres, the performance was completely different. We lost grip, the bike wasn’t turning well and it was difficult to keep up. There were not big changes between the morning and the afternoon and yet the results were very different, this gives me less stability but it’s also interesting. The data collected will be analyzed in the next few hours by engineers who will try to understand and find an explanation for what happened. It’s difficult to make a prediction about what will happen in the race, we certainly won’t give up, we’ll move forward and continue to do our best, then we’ll see!”
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