CHALLENGING FREE PRACTICE IN BURIRAM
#ThaiGP free practice. Both today’s Free Practice sessions at the Buriram International Circuit took place – surprisingly – in dry conditions. Enea Bastianini and Fabio Di Giannantonio missed on the opportunity to place themselves within the provisional Q2-worthy, top ten and will have to look at the sky tomorrow morning. The rain, which is very likely to fall during FP3, will mean that they will both have to go through Q1.
Bastianini can especially turn his nose up at the situation, as he finished 11th and only 25 milliseconds away from Morbidelli, who rounded out the top ten. Di Giannantonio was two tenths away from his teammate and 16th overall with a time of 1’31.004. Their best time today came during FP1.
11th – ENEA BASTIANINI #23 (1.30’790)
“I’m not satisfied because we should have been in Q2, but we didn’t improve in the afternoon. We need to work on the electronics and find something in the fourth split, where we lose too much time. We now have to hope for a dry FP3.
16th – FABIO DI GIANNANTONIO #49 (1.31’004)
“I was a lot happier about the morning session. In the afternoon, the feeling changed radically: the bike was a lot more nervous and surely we’ll have to work on the electronics to improve on corner exit. I also crashed at turn three, but generally speaking I wasn’t comfortable on the bike.”
