Although Iker Lecuona is riding the Silverstone Circuit on a MotoGP bike for the first time ever today, he showed some great progress throughout Friday. After finishing FP1 in P17, the Tech3 KTM Factory Racing rider improved by nearly two seconds in the second session of the weekend to conclude Friday in 11th, whereas he was missing out on the provisional Q2 spots by just 0.013 seconds.
In the meantime, Tech3 KTM Factory Racing’s Danilo Petrucci had a strong start to proceedings at the British Grand Prix with the 11th fastest time in Free Practice one. In FP2, the Italian went about half a second quicker than this morning. Yet, he concluded this fresh Friday in Great Britain in 18th overall.
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Iker Lecuona
Position: 11th
Time: 2:00.413
Laps: 33
“I’m very happy. This morning, I was working hard with the bike, we tried something on the base and I felt good on the last run with used tyres. This afternoon, we tried to improve this base even more. One more time, I managed to go faster by myself and later on following someone else. I felt really good, very strong with the bike. I tried to follow Marc (Marquez) and lost only a few tenths. I nearly ended up inside the top 10, so I’m very satisfied for myself and for my team. We will see, what is going to happen tomorrow, but we are there.”
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Danilo Petrucci
Position: 18th
Time: 2:01.405
Laps: 33
“I was quite happy about the feeling I have, but like always I can’t really use the extra grip of the soft tyre. It’s an issue, as our pace is quite good, but I can’t really improve my lap time on one single fast lap. I’m very consistent, but somehow limited to go faster in order to make a step forward in the classification. We will try to improve our lap time tomorrow. I think we are in a good shape, but we have to have a better Qualifying compared to the other rounds and then we can manage a decent race.”
