Stefan Bradl second fastest Open bike in Austin qualifying
Stefan Bradl finished very close to the pole in qualifying in the Open class at the Austin track for the Athinà Forward Racing team.
After yesterday’s showers, today the weather has improved and, even if has stayed cloudy, both Athinà Forward Racing riders were able to better adapt to the challenging Texan track. Bradl with a time of 2’04.275 finished just three tenths behind Barbera, first among the Open bikes. The German will start tomorrow from 14th position on the grid in the fifth row and is confident for the race where he will be fighting for victory in the class.
“It was a good day of work. The goal was to get directly in Q2 but I cannot say I am not satisfied with the 14th place. We have a good potential and tomorrow I want to get as close as possible to the Top10. We will still do some small change in the warm-up to be even faster. The weather tomorrow will be the real question mark”.