Tough Day At The Office In Misano 😵💫
Hi everyone,
Back at Misano to complete the doubleheader at this circuit, and after the positive momentum we’d gained last time out and over the last couple of events, we were looking to keep the ball rolling 🤟
That was looking reasonable as we started the weekend decently - I missed out on a direct entry into Q2 with P11 in practice, which is always a bit frustrating, but the times were tight and I felt like we were in the ballpark of where we needed to be.
We made some tweaks heading into the Sprint Race, although what we were experiencing in practice followed us into the race, with the balance a bit off in the high-speed sections and we were bleeding time there. Things felt a bit better as the fuel load dropped, although it was a bit too little too late by that time, and we wound up in P14.
Feature Race, more of the same story, unfortunately - I was pretty much maxed out by lap three. The vibration came along and I nearly lost it a couple of times, so had to really back ‘er down and bring it home for a finish, which was a pretty disappointing P16 result in the end.
Not the weekend we were chasing, like I said especially off the back of the momentum that I felt we were building in the previous rounds. It’s not for a lack of trying, we threw a lot of things at it again this weekend, but couldn’t seem to nail the setup on where we needed to be.
On a positive note, we did run a sweet kit for this weekend, with the ‘Taxi’ theme running across the helmet, gloves, and boots setup. I was stoked with the way that it came out, and reckon it looks pretty rad on track too - big thank you to my partners on pulling this off and bringing the vision to life!
Quick turnaround now to Indonesian GP, we’ll come out swinging and look to get this thing back on track. 💪
Cheers,
Jack.
