Busy Friday at MotorLand for the Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team, with Franco Morbidelli in tenth position and qualified directly to Q2. Fabio Di Giannantonio is twelfth.
The Aragon Grand Prix weekend started with a busy work day for the Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team: on Friday at MotorLand, both riders faced odd conditions with high temperature and low grip. Franco Morbidelli secured a direct spot in Q2, while Fabio Di Giannantonio will have to fight for a place tomorrow.
Morbidelli started the eighth GP of the year with a P9 in FP1. The Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team rider improved his lap time in the afternoon and he ended the crucial Friday session in 1:47.213. With this time, he could clinch a spot in Q2 in tenth place.
It was a more complicated Friday for Di Giannantonio, who will have to go through Q1 on Saturday at Aragon. Fabio was sixteenth at the end of FP1, but he advanced to the twelfth position in the Practice; even if the place was not enoguh to reach the Q2, the Roman rider showed a good potential with his Ducati Desmosedici GP improving both the lap time (1:47.241) and the pace.
The Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team is back on track on Saturday for qualifying, which begins at 10:50 a.m. (local time CET). The Sprint race will follow at 3:00 p.m. (local time). The Aragon Grand Prix will end on Sunday with the main race, that will start at 2 p.m. (local time).
FABIO DI GIANNANTONIO
“It was a pity to stay out of Q2. We slowed down the work plan a little bit in the afternoon because of a setback we had. The positive thing is that we have a great room for improvement because we know what we have to change for tomorrow. We had a great potential to be in Q2, I’m riding well and I know what to do to be faster. The track conditions were difficult today, there was no grip, especially this afternoon in the Practice.”
FRANCO MORBIDELLI
“Unfortunately, we didn’t have much feeling in a single moment during the day because there was no grip with any tyre. We hope to improve – especially the grip at the back – in the next sessions to make steps forward with the bike in terms of feeling during the weekend, as we’ve been doing in these first seven races together with the team, we grew. Tonight we will check the data and try to understand and find some solutions, but I’m very happy to be directly in Q2. Physically I’m feeling good, the foot doesn’t hurt.”
