With a fabulous lap time of 1:31.965 minutes, Red Bull KTM Tech3’s Miguel Oliveira kicked off the Gran Premio dell’Emilia Romagna e della Riviera di Rimini today in fifth position. The quick Portuguese was focusing on working towards this Sunday’s second race at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli in FP2, but was nearly as fast as in the morning. He finished Friday in P8 overall, securing a direct Q2 spot over night.
On the other side of the Red Bull KTM Tech3 garage, Iker Lecuona was concentrating on his ridings style in Free Practice one and did great to recover the missing tenths during the second session of the day. The MotoGP rookie lowered his lap time from FP1 to FP2 by 0.945 seconds to eventually miss out on the top 10 by just 0.166 seconds, which he will be willing to make up tomorrow in FP3 at 9.55 local time.
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Miguel Oliveira
Position: 8th
Time: 1:31.965
Laps: 41
"It was a nice day of work here. We went faster than in the last Grand Prix, which was obviously the target. We still have some things to adjust for tomorrow morning. I feel good. We know in FP3 it’s going to be very tight to go to Q2, but I believe we can manage to do a decent session and a decent lap. Our pace this afternoon was quite good, which I’m happy about, but we know that this pace here is not enough to do a good result, so we need to be faster tomorrow morning to be with the front."
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Iker Lecuona
Position: 14th
Time: 1:32.238
Laps: 43
"In FP1 I was quite happy, because we were working on our pace and I was working on my riding style. We wanted to improve that a bit and I had a good feeling, riding smoother and more relaxed. This afternoon, I put in a good tyre and was a lot closer to the top. On my fastest lap, I did a small mistake, but I did two quick lap times. At the moment, it is difficult to improve further. Anyway, I’m quite satisfied about today, as we are close to the top 10 again. Tomorrow we need to continue to work hard in order to improve this fast lap time."
