MARQUEZ SECURES ANOTHER DIRECT SEED TO Q2 AT JEREZ
The opening day of action at Jerez de la Frontera started off the best way possible for Alex Marquez, who secured his second direct seed to Q2 of the season after the one claimed in Austin as he logged an encouraging 1’37.041secs lap time which was exactly three tenths of a second shy of today’s top performance by Espargaró.
In what was a day marked by scorching hot weather conditions, with extremely high track temperatures, Fabio Di Giannantonio could not finish higher than 19th, eight tenths away from his teammate.
8th – ALEX MARQUEZ #73 (1’37.041s)
“It was a good first day: I felt immediately good in the morning, even though we had changed something in the set-up compared to Austin. I adjusted well immediately, while in the afternoon we focused on our race pace with high temperatures. We also managed to get into Q2, so we earned our paycheck today. Now let’s work on some fine-tuning in order to be even closer to the front tomorrow.”
19th – FABIO DI GIANNANTONIO #49 (1’37.860s)
“The bad thing is that we’re still having the same old problems, the good one is that we found something to work on to improve tomorrow, and we’ll do our best to achieve that. We’ll have to go through Q1, but we’ll have time during FP3 to continue working in the same direction as the second Free Practice session, and once again focused on the front-end.”
