British GP: FIFTH ROW START IN SILVERSTONE
Stefan Bradl delivered a super strong qualifying this afternoon as he powered the Aprilia RS-GP to P14 for tomorrow’s grid which is the best qualifying result thus far for the still young Italian MotoGP project.
After some intense work on race pace during FP3 and FP4, Bradl took best benefit of the soft tyres to put in a great best effort in 2´02.657 to qualify for a brilliant fifth row start.
#6 Stefan BRADL (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini, Aprilia), Grid position 14th – 2´02.657 (7/7):
“I’m very pleased with my performance during today’s qualifying. I managed it well to put in two very nice flying laps, both with the softer option of rear slick. In any case, our bike is performing very well with new tyres so it was a bit to expect to do well this afternoon. But our priority is to improve our race pace now. We tried a few different changes to the bike today, but during FP4 I would have preferred to set a consistently faster pace. We’ll try to use tomorrow morning’s Warm up session to improve further in order to be more effective in the race.”
Qualifying Classification:
1 Marc MARQUEZ / SPA / Repsol Honda Team / Honda / 2´00.234
2 Jorge LORENZO / SPA / Movistar Yamaha MotoGP / Yamaha / 2´00.522 +0.288
3 Dani PEDROSA / SPA / Respol Honda Team / Honda / 2´00.716 +0.482
14 Stefan BRADL / GER / Aprilia Racing Team Gresini / Aprilia / 2´02.657 +2.423 (Q1)