Fortunately, the warmup was wet this morning, this are the first time at rain Setup.
Stefan immediately had a good feeling with the Aprilia in the rain at the beginning of the rain tyres had super grip and he stay long on 3rd place. As the track coming more dry, the wets coming were very hot and lost more and more performance.
That meant most eventually finished 13th in the warmup. Not a bad result for 20 minutes the first time in the rain with the Aprilia.
Well, in the race it was raining, although whether it starts with slicks or rain tyres was not clear in the starting line-up. In the Warmuplap, it starts to rain light however and all went into the box to switch to the bike with wet tyres.
Stefan started quite well, but long fought Bautista. He lost then a little that felt feeling for the front tyre, and lost a little bit grip. Stefan said that this feeling was far different than in the warmup, and suddenly it dont worked on the brake and he crashed.
There were no points in the first ever rain race on the Aprilia, team-mate Bautista, who was an excellent tenth saw man on what would have been possible today.
Despite the crash, Stefan delivered a great performance, even though it a little on Friday and Saturday in the Setup here have turned into circle.
In 14 days we continue at Misano, this should be better for the Aprilia.
Rossi has won in front of Petrucci and Dovizioso. Lorenzo operated mitigation with 4th place, but had even more problems with his helmet. This time, the visor have fog inside!
We are looking forward to Misano!
