Eighth Place Finish At San Marino 🤟

Hi everyone,

A solid weekend all ‘round for us in San Marino, showing speed from the get-go and maintaining that consistency across the weekend was unreal 🤟

It’s no secret that it’s been a bit of a slog for us to start the season, although I do feel that - especially over the last few races - we’ve made progress towards solving some of the issues we were facing, and are making headway on consistency which San Marino showed.

The weekend started well, got through into Q2 by the skin of my teeth which is the way that it goes sometimes, and I was happy with the feeling we had with the bike and the overall speed that we had to kick things off. 

I latched on with my fellow KTM riders Brad (Binder) and Pedro (Acosta) in the Sprint Race, had Marc (Marquez) behind us for a while before he snuck through, but I really enjoyed that race, we were definitely pushing the limits the entire time and P8 was the best result I could manage.

Feature Race, another good one for us. Obviously, as an athlete, you’re always wanting more, although from where we have been, to be on camera and in the fight with the boys is very promising and a place we can keep building from.

My start was good, and then we had a few sprinkles on the visor, I was hoping for more as that’s when I was doing my best work with a few of the others looking like they were thinking about pitting, I was moving my way upwards at that stage.

The weather didn’t hang around as long as I would have liked, and then towards the end there with about 10 (laps) to go, we started losing the lefthand rear edge of the tyre and we were managing things from there.

All in all, I’m pretty stoked to be back inside the top 10 with an eighth-place finish, it’s been a lot of work to get here, and we’ll keep chipping away at it to make more progress for the next one.  

Thanks again for all the support 🙌

Cheers,

Jack.