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The second free practice session turned out to be little disappointment because Stefan had an electronic problem. Thus, it did not increase compared to the morning.
If he closed the throttle to 100%, the electronic to let the throttlebody 3% open. So Bradl had no engine brake, which is absolutely necessary. Unfortunately by the last turn with fresh tires came on this issue, of course, were no longer around here something to change in the box, the remaining 5 minutes.
Nevertheless, they could previously still a lot to improve the setup, the rear shock absorber was a step made harder, which proved with the medium tires as a step in the right direction. With this tire Stefan could do 22 laps, but it should continue to remain so warm (26 ° air and 29 ° asphalt), they will select the soft rear tire. For front probably the medium, maybe the hard one.
At the end of the meeting Stefan stood in 19th place, teammate Baustista even only 20th
Hopefully tomorrow they remain spared from further problems, we are pleased in any case forward to more action on the track!
And now we have arrived at the last Grand Prix of the season 2015. After Sepang it was the last 10 days some turbulence due to the incident between Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi, so went Stefan Bradl brilliant 10th in this race a little below.
Stefan appeared to Sepang very satisfied, its good performance from the training he finally could once even improve in the race yet. Bradl even said yet, the black weekend in Australia helped them to Sepang very much because they have learned a lot there.
In the first free practice session on the track of Valencia went for Stefan remains positive, it was recorded after 45 minutes as eleventh. Stefan shortened the gap to the leader of the beginning approximately two seconds just under 1.3 seconds. Apparently, they now know where they need to be concentrating on when to work forward.
It was started with the vote of Sepang, but Stefan noted that feel the two motorcycles differently. They have changed just a few clicks, but there are no problems that could not be solved.
Nevertheless, Stefan felt the setup well, he still needs to get a better rhythm purely because he had incorporated a few mistakes in FP1 as some braking mistake and so on.
With a little luck could Bradlwith this performance tomorrow maybe even move into Q2, but he would at least be 10 in FP3.
What a spectacular race in the tropical heat in Malaysia!
In Warmup Stefan was able to confirm his good shape, he was even after these 20 minutes Session 15 as noted.
In the race Bradl started excellently, as the eighth he came back of the first round on the start / finish line. As a result of the next rounds Stefan snapped althought few riders and then rode a few laps at postion 11th. However, Iannone fell out of a technical defect, Dovizioso crashed due to contact of Crutchlow.
Shortly before happened the tricky situation of the day, Rossi and Marquez were involved in a epic battle. Rossi pushed Marquez in a right corner to the outside on the dirty side of the track came Marquez possibly due to a contact by Rossi crashed out. Rossi received for three penalty points, that means that he has to start from last position in Grid at the final race.
That was another place improvement for Stefan. Stefan was in 10th place again. He held this place with an no so good reartire to the finish. At the middle of race he had a large rear slide, who showed him where the limit is. For the first time, the Aprilia rear tires behaved relatively constant, which was not least thanks to a good setting of the electronics. Of course, the edgegrip subsided, but this is understandable in a race in such conditions.
Through the six points for 10th place Stefan was able to improve in the standings by two places. Now he is on the 18th place, but is can not be improved at the last race in 14 days in Valencia because his former teammate Loris has a lead of 12 points.
We are already looking forward to a great season finale in Spain, then again at the usual times.
