ARGENTINA GP: FIRST MOTO2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINT FOR NAVARRO
Jorge Navarro has taken his first Moto2 World Championship points as he rode his Federal Oil Gresini Kalex Honda machine home in 15th in today’s 23-lap encounter at Termas de Rio Hondo, his second in the middleweight class of MotoGP.
The 21-year-old Spaniard got an OK start from 20st place on the grid and by lap 3 he was already up to 17th place; he then did his utmost to stay with the big group ahead of him and, towards the end of the race, he finally entered the top-15. On the last lap, he was promoted to 14th place following Marquez’s crash but a false neutral entering turn 5 cost him the position to Aegerter, which he could not take back before the chequered flag.
The next race of the Moto2 World Championship – the last one before the start of the European season – will take place in a fortnight’s time in Austin, Texas.
“After what was a bit of a strange weekend weather-wise, today we tried a couple of changes to the bike setup during warm up which gave us a good direction. We got to the race with the bike I was still not fully comfortable with, but we have a lot of positives to take with us: we finished the race – that’s a first in Moto2 – we gathered a lot of data and we learned from some mistakes!”
