{"id":12835,"date":"2019-10-04T12:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T10:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gresiniracing.com\/lowes-a-mezzo-secondo-dalla-vetta-nelle-libere-del-thaigp\/"},"modified":"2019-10-04T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T10:05:28","slug":"lowes-a-mezzo-secondo-dalla-vetta-nelle-libere-del-thaigp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gresiniracing.com\/en\/lowes-a-mezzo-secondo-dalla-vetta-nelle-libere-del-thaigp\/","title":{"rendered":"LOWES HALF A SECOND FROM THE TOP IN #THAIGP PRACTICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat and hard work were the two key factors for <strong>Team Federal Oil Gresini Moto2\u00a0<\/strong>who at the Chang International Circuit did not enjoy the best of starts to the fifth-last event of the season.<strong>Sam Lowes\u00a0<\/strong>was, as usual, among the most active riders on track, although he did not manage to finish higher than 19<sup>th<\/sup>in the combined times of today\u2019s free practice sessions \u2013 even though his gap from the top is less than half a second.<\/p>\n<p>With so many riders in a fraction of a second the fine-tuning will be crucial to allow the #22 to make it to Q2 and get a good qualifying. The \u201cfocus\u201d will be on gearing and front-end feeling, two areas in which Lowes struggled the most.<\/p>\n<p>Free practice 3 (taking place at 10:55 local time GMT+7) will be crucial to make a step forward with the settings of the Federal Oil-liveried Kalex machine \u2013 if the weather will allow to do so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19<sup>th<\/sup>&#8211; SAM LOWES #22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a great day to be honest as we also had a coming together with another rider while I was trying to set a quick lap-time in the second session. Generally speaking, we have to work hard on the gearing and the front-end feeling. The real work starts now, as we\u2019ll study the best solutions to spearhead our attack on Q2 during Free Practice 3 tomorrow \u2013 hoping the rain will spare us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat and hard work were the two key factors for Team Federal Oil Gresini Moto2\u00a0who at the Chang International Circuit did not enjoy the best of starts to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-moto2-en","category-race-report-moto2-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LOWES HALF A SECOND FROM THE TOP IN #THAIGP PRACTICE - 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