Álex Márquez and Stefan Bradl continued their adaptation to the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli this Saturday. The Repsol Honda Team MotoGP rookie is riding the RC213V at the track for the first time this weekend and, despite the progress he achieved in practice, will start tomorrow from the seventh row of the grid. He set a best time in Q1 of 1:33.333.
His stand-in teammate also made a notable improvement on his times from yesterday, going almost 1.5 seconds faster than in FP1. The German set his fastest lap of the weekend in Q1, a 1:32.915.
The MotoGP race is set to take place in dry conditions at 2pm local time.
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San Marino GP 2020 – Riders statements
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“It was not an easy qualifying for us, we knew coming into this weekend that it would be tough. We got some good information in FP4 and our overall pace is better than the position on the time sheet shows. In qualifying I wasn’t able to put together a good lap, my fastest lap did not have any of my best sector times. It’s quite difficult with the bumps. The good point is that tomorrow can only improve.”
“We tried a lot of different things today in order to improve our feeling and speed. There’s still something to find for the race and the bike is very physical here, especially with the bumps. Hopefully we can get some early overtakes in and then ride with the others to see where they are stronger and what advantage we can take.”