Tough Old Race In Aragón 😅

Hi everyone,

It was bloody good to be back in Aragón, the track is super fun to ride, a good surface, no bumps, and one of those circuits where you can just go fast which makes it a whole heap of fun 🤟

We were riding finally what I felt was a bit of momentum into this round, obviously, the fall in Austria wasn’t ideal, but we were able to pick the bike up and show great speed for the remainder of the race, so those signs were promising.

Good speed early in Aragón, sitting P3 in FP2 again shows the pace that we have at times, although the inconsistency hurts us, especially when the tyre is in its various windows, and the vibration starts.

We’re steadily overcoming these challenges, but again it’s been a long process from GP1 to now, with some trial and error at each Grand Prix to understand things further. 

As for the Sprint Race, we didn't have an ideal grid position in that one, but I felt we made the most of what we had, as I closed in on the back of that big group who were running a decent pace. Unfortunately, once I got there we had an issue with the front tyre pressure, which felt super weird and as if I was riding in the wet 😅 

I managed it in that race from that point on to come home in P13.

It was a long old Feature Race - I got off to a decent start but had a big moment on lap one, as I couldn’t seem to get the mid part of the tyre to switch on. From there on I was nursing it and was able to push a bit more once the tyre scrubbed in during the later stages, but overall it was a mistake-free race and P10 was the result.

That wasn’t the end of the story for us unfortunately, as we received a tyre pressure penalty which was disappointing and we were demoted back down to P15.  

Tough race and penalty to swallow, but we again showed signs across the weekend and will come back in Misano and have a good swing at it again 🙌

Cheers,

Jack.