The Red Bull KTM Tech3 duo of Miguel Oliveira and Iker Lecuona started the Grand Prix of Styria where they left off at last weeks’ Austrian GP with very fast lap times and some great feelings. After Oliveira impressively did the third fastest lap time in FP1 on Friday morning, he was working on race distance during the second Free Practice session to finally finish the opening day of the third round in a row in a fantastic fourth position, just 0.260 seconds to the top.

Meanwhile, Iker Lecuona likewise picked up his speed from the word go. He concluded the first session of the weekend in a fine eighth and ended up in P11 after FP2 this afternoon, missing out on the top 10, who sit on their provisional overnight Q2 place, by a tiny margin of 0.050 seconds. The Spanish premier class rookie is eager to make up for the 50 thousands of a second come FP3 tomorrow at 9.55 local time.

Miguel Oliveira

Position: 4^th

Time: 1:23.898

Laps: 46

"Today has been a positive first day. We managed to be very fast already in the morning. In the afternoon, the pace was very good with very used tyres and then we made some changes to the bike, that didn’t work out with the new tyre, but still we made a decent job in the morning and we are confident, that we can also improve further tomorrow morning."

Iker Lecuona

"I’m really happy about today. I didn’t only finish in P8 this morning, but also had a really good lap time and went alone, I improved a lot compared to last week. This afternoon, we were working more towards the race and later we tried to put in a new set of tyres to go faster, but finally, we missed out on the provisional Q2 by just 0.050. Anyway, I’m really satisfied about this day one."