MARTIN AND DI GIANNANTONIO TO START COTA RACE FROM ROW 2
Jorge Martin and Fabio Di Giannantonio have claimed the fifth and sixth places on the grid, respectively, in today’s qualifying session at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The two riders of Team Del Conca Gresini Moto3 showed promising signs ahead of tomorrow’s race, as they lapped under the 2’16 barrier while improving their pace on the longer run.
Jorge Martin continued with his progression on the challenging American circuit and confirmed the positive feedback he had during free practice. The young Spaniard set a personal best time of 2’15.921 which gave him the fifth place on the grid.
Di Giannantonio enjoy a very positive day as he massively improved on his first day performance. After working hard with his crew, the 18-year-old Italian was finally able to find the right feeling with the front-end of his Honda NSF250RW #21 machine, which allowed him to lap only a few thousandths of a second slower than his team mate.
The 18-lap, third race of the 2017 World Championship will get underway tomorrow at 11:00 local time (GMT -5).
5º – JORGE MARTIN #88
“I feel pretty confortable on the bike, we did quite good sessions this weekend and I’ve been fast most of the time. We are still looking for a couple of tenths to be really competitive with the top guys. Tomorrow we will work hard in the warm up. We want to do a good start in the race and be at the front from the beginning”.
6º – FABIO DI GIANNANTONIO #21
Today went really well, we have made a good step forward with the bike. This morning we improved our time by one second and this afternoon I was able to finally push to the limit, because the bike felt much, much better. I want to thank the team for this, they did a great job! We still have to make a couple of small changes to the front-end and then we’ll be ready for a great race!
