Top Ten for Thriller in Japan 😄

Hi everyone,

After what was a pretty tough pill to swallow in Indonesia, it feels great to have a rebound of sorts in Japan and put together a decent weekend of racing, getting back towards the 10 in the Feature Race 🤟

We started the weekend a bit weird - I didn’t have the best feeling in the opening practice session as we were dealing with chatter vibration that was costing us a fair amount of time, and ultimately had to go the long way ‘round without the direct entry into Q2.

A couple of radical changes later, we felt much better on the bike which was really positive, and took that setup into the Sprint Race which had us up there fighting in the group, even though the tyre was dropping off towards the end there.

Decent enough result in that one winding up P8, and again good to put some points on the board and make some headway from where we started.

Our focus then shifted towards the Feature Race, and we got off to a blinder in that one, making a bunch of moves on the opening lap and found ourselves towards the front with a bit of clean air which was nice.

I remember thinking that we could be on for a top five there at one stage when I went past Marc (Marquez) on the back straight, but the anchor came out not long after and the boys started coming back by me.

All things considered, a solid weekend at the races for us, and I’m keen to get down to the Island and give it a red hot crack Down Under.

Cheers,

Jack. 🤟