Race1 – #SanMarinoGP<\/i> Matteo Ferrari <\/b>is back on the podium after finishing third in today\u2019s opening race of the season finale at his home track in Misano. The Rimini-born rider started the encounter from fifth place on the grid and battled hard across the eight laps with the front group \u2013 eventually securing 16 important points which help him retain third place in the standings \u2013 albeit now with only a 1.5-point margin on the rider in fourth position.<\/p>\n
Despite the pain in his recently-operated right foot, Alessio Finello did an excellent job in completing the race \u2013 and was also happy to be on track and to have set his personal quickest time of the race. He will try to improve his pace tomorrow with the hope to secure points in the final encounter of the season.<\/p>\n
The electric bikes will take to the track for race two at 15:30 local time (GMT +2).<\/p>\n
🥉 – MATTEO FERRARI #11<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a difficult race. I didn\u2019t have a good feeling with the rear tyre on lap one and I did a small mistake after the \u2018Quercia\u2019 and lost some ground. I pushed as hard as I could to close the gap and managed to pass Torres, while Mattia and Dominique were really hard to overtake today. I had been missing the feeling of being on the podium, it\u2019s a great result for both myself and the team. Now let\u2019s think about tomorrow, because I want to win here at Misano!\u201d<\/p>\n
16<\/b>th<\/sup><\/b> – ALESSIO FINELLO #72<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cIt was tough today! Surely I\u2019m not happy with today\u2019s race and my classification, but I must be truthful to myself: I wasn\u2019t even sure I could even take to the track this weekend, so the fact that I was able to and then finish the race \u2013 with even my personal best lap-time \u2013 help me accept the result. These two weeks of recovery didn\u2019t help my fitness condition but we\u2019re looking at the glass half full: we managed to improve throughout the weekend nevertheless and we will try to continue the same way tomorrow, maybe with one more point to add to the total. I would like to thank the team for this season this way. I would also like to thank the sponsors and everybody who came here to watch me race, which being my home one has surely a special taste.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Race1 – #SanMarinoGP Matteo Ferrari is back on the podium after finishing third in today\u2019s opening race of the season finale at his home track in Misano. The Rimini-born rider…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-motoe-en","category-race-report-motoe-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n