BRADL QUALIFIES 10th BUT HE IS OPTIMISTIC WITH HIS RACE PACE
Indianapolis, 9 August: in today’s second outing at Indianapolis race track, the LCR Honda racer Stefan Bradl had an “up-and-down” performance, firstly topping the FP3 in the morning and then qualifying 10th in QP2 session. Despite his intention to occupy the front positions ahead tomorrow’s 27-lap race, Bradl hesitated too much during the 15-min session and could not set a proper flying lap.
Bradl: “Well… strange day for us. P1 in the morning session and P10 in the qualifying which is not what we were expecting considering our pace. Unfortunately I was not able to put a good lap together with many riders, including myself, waiting too much time. I also made some small mistakes in my flying lap and finally I dropped back quickly. In the mean time we have worked a lot on our race pace with the tendency going to the hard rear tyre which is maybe some advantage for us compared to the open bikes and I hope we will be able to overtake some guys already at the start and hopefully we can have a good go with the guys in the front. It’s bit difficult to predict anything because of the “mix” of many riders in the list: for example sometimes the Ducati guys are in the front and sometimes in the back”.
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