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Pramac Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, FP 3 & 4, Qualifying 1

Unfortunately, Saturday brought no great insights during setup, Stefan said after the third free practice he was a bit perplexed, because he does not know why Bautista is one second faster. Stefan come not better than position 22.
The main problem is the lack of rear grip, Stefan says he has no feeling for the tail and is therefore simply too slow.
Normaly Stefan can use the soft rear slick excellent, but this weekend does not succeed in that. He tries to get better by an adapted riding style from the curves, such as raise the machine earlier and to be more careful when he open the throttle. But that’s not so easy as it sounds.
Anyway, Stefan is studying the data from Alvaro to possibly see what he do better.
There have been much tried at the geometry for the fourth free practice session, the RS-GP was made higher and tested two different length swingarms. For the race, the longer swing arm will be used, as in the fast corners, the Aprilia is more stable.
Stefan reduced the gap to Bautista, but 5/10 still too much. Apparently for the Aprilia slicks on the left side too hard and the riders get the tyres in the left turns not to work. Aprilia MotoGP project manager Marco Bertolatti confirmed Bradl statement.

In the first qualifying Stefan was half a second slower than Bautista and starts tomorrow from 21 position in grid. To get points tomorrow are not a easy job for Bradl.

Nevertheless, we remain optimistic and cross both thumbs for Stefan and hope you enjoy the GP of Australia.

Pramac Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, FP 1 & 2

All the GP circus has moved to Australia, more precisely on the beautiful peninsula Phillip Island, 120km south of Melbourne. The weather forecast for today was mixed, which proved to be true during the day. In the first free practice session of the MotoGP protagonists were repeatedly confronted throughout the 45 minutes session with raindrops, at the end it rained even completely.

That was one reason why Bradl only reached the 23th position, Stefan said he could not build a real sense, especially left in the fast corners (of which there are plenty available on the island) turn-in to be desired about. Stefan go back to the pits for change the front in direction soft, but in this moment if he in the box, the conditions ontrack are the best. At least this change turned out to be positive. The gap to the leader Lorenzo was 3.5 seconds, which is far too much for the short track.

However, things went much better in the second free practice session, Stefan significantly reduce the gap about 1.5 seconds to 2.2 seconds. Teammate Bautista was only three tenths faster than Stefan. This obviously has to contend with similar problems as Bradl. Stefan complained of too much wheelspin, the rear wheel to rotate through strong, so he loses when accelerating much time.

The choice of front tire this weekend to play the decisive role, not least as the weather is. For tomorrow and the day of the race it should remain sunny but as the MotoGP race takes place only by 4 pm , it could cool sensitive. That was last year already indicate a problem. Few riders are crashed out of the end of the race if the tires lost temperature. As we know, the GP-RS prefer it when it’s warmer. At temperatures of around 16 ° and cold wind can not speak of it.

We are nevertheless confident that Stefan and his team for Saturday found a good solution.

MOTUL GRAND PRIX OF JAPAN, Race

The weather forecast was correct. The day started rainy and foggy, which ensured that the helicopter couldn’t start. This meant a delay of the warmup.
Then the fog gone, the protagonists started on wet tyres in the wet warm-up session.
Bradl run not so well that they chose the wrong setup with too much weight on the front wheel. He had no feeling on the rear and no grip.
Quickest was Pedrosa before Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi. Bradl was listed on position 23th.

The weather conditions were clear for the race soon, it was started as a wet race. When the red lights went out Stefan crashed almost as wild his reartyre wedged out, his reartyre have to much wheelspin.
Stefan lost right 7 places at once and run 7 laps on the 20th place until he did a mistake on brake lost a lot of time in the gravel bed.
So finished Stefan at 18th in the end, no points were also for his teammate on 16th.
The race was won by Dani Pedrosa in front of Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, which front tyres going worst after he has long lead.
Next weekend continues already in Australia, on the wonderful Track of Phillip.
This means early to get up, or not even to go to bed.

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