{"id":39023,"date":"2025-09-05T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gresiniracing.com\/?p=39023"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:08:13","slug":"a-challenging-opening-day-at-the-catalan-circuit-arenas-and-binder-miss-out-on-direct-seed-to-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gresiniracing.com\/en\/a-challenging-opening-day-at-the-catalan-circuit-arenas-and-binder-miss-out-on-direct-seed-to-q2\/","title":{"rendered":"A CHALLENGING OPENING DAY AT THE CATALAN CIRCUIT: ARENAS AND BINDER MISS OUT ON DIRECT SEED TO Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ALBERT ARENAS #75<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst day here at Barcelona: clearly it didn\u2019t go as we expected. This morning, we had a quite good session, but the conditions changed in the afternoon and we couldn\u2019t adapt to them the best way. We couldn\u2019t secure the access to Q2, so we\u2019ll need to work hard and try again tomorrow. 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