Third Row Start For Sam Lowes At Le Mans
Sam Lowes will start from the third row of the grid in tomorrow’s French Grand Prix: aboard the Team Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 Kalex machine the 25-year-old British rider set the ninth fastest time, 1’37”396, at the end of this afternoon Qualifying session at the historic Le Mans circuit.
The championship leader, who set the pole position in Termas de Rio Hondo and in Jerez, on this occasion struggled to find the right feeling with the front end and will therefore continue to work during tomorrow morning’s Warm Up to improve for the race, scheduled for tomorrow at 12.20.
SAM LOWES (9th – 1’37”396)
“Yesterday we were struggling with the front end and we lost a bit of confidence, so today we continued to struggle a bit to find the right feeling. Anyway our race pace is not bad, even if we are missing something from the top guys: hopefully we can improve overnight analyzing the data and tomorrow we will try to find something in the Warm Up. Then I will try to make a good start and fight till the end!”.
FAUSTO GRESINI
“Recently we have been more competitive in Qualifying compared to what we did today, but actually we are not far away and our race pace is not bad, so we remain confident for the race. Tomorrow morning during the Warm Up we will try some changes to the bike set up to try to help Sam: it won’t be an easy race, but we will try until the end, as always!”.
