EUROPEAN SEASON GETS UNDERWAY FOR TEAM KÖMMERLING GRESINI MOTO3
The first three, flyaway races are over and this weekend Jerez’s Angel Nieto Circuit will open – as a tradition – the long European leg of the season, which will see 11 rounds take place in five months.
Team Kömmerling Gresini Moto3 arrives to Spain in good form: Gabriel Rodrigo is looking forward to stepping up his game after coming close to victory twice in Argentina and Texas, while Riccardo Rossi will try to confirm the good feeling developed with the Andalusian track during winter testing – instead of starting from scratch like it happened in the last two appearances.
Moto3 proceedings will get underway at 9:00 local time (GMT +2) with the #SpanishGPfirst free practice session, while the race will begin on Sunday at 11:00.
GABRI RODRIGO #19
“I’m really looking forward to racing in Europe with the “traditional” timetable. I think we’re in good form and surely in an upward trajectory after two positive races. We already rode at Jerez during winter, so we have heaps of data to make the most of. The goal is to put everything together: will, data, experience in order to get an important result – which would be the natural step up after the start of the season. I trained hard, I was in Andorra doing Skimo and we are 100% ready.”
RICCARDO ROSSI #54
“We already rode at Jerez with the Honda and I must say that it’s quite a difficult track for me. It has a lot of long and fast corners where I struggle a lot, but somehow I like it a lot anyway. We already done some work there and found good settings – which led to some good steps forwards. We worked hard in Texas on our race pace and with good results, so I’m confident that if we do well from Friday, we could improve even further at Jerez.”
