Fortunately, the move was crowned with success back to the setup of FP1. In the direction in which you went turned out for the second free practice session, however, as a shot in the oven!
In the FP3 Stefan go out with a soft rear tyre, which he can use but still not optimally, his fastest time reached Stefan hard tyres because the soft produces to much chatter. Also, the motorcycle through the extra grip pushes more over the front wheel, which in turn can be charged more and faster wear these.
Nevertheless, Stefan was produced better than on Friday afternoon by the placement and lap time. Yesterday, Stefan 2.3 seconds behind the top in FP3 was only 1.3 seconds. This was again a 16th place.
As everyone will know in the FP4, which does not count for Q1 or Q2, worked for the race set-up.
Here is brilliantly beat Stefan and stood at the end in 11th place, with 8/10 gap to the fastest. Stefan’s time proved very constant, that he is faster than with the hard tyre soft will be no disadvantage for the race.
For Q1 there have a 4mm longer swingarm, which proved to be positive. In Mugello, the swingarm was getting shorter, longer in Barcelona. They found more grip and Stefan thinks the front tire has less stress as a result.
Stefan’s data engineer Dirk Debus said they had found in addition still a good solution for the traction control.
It all sounds already very confident for the race, hopefully, Stefan is now finally weeks spared by bad luck of the last!
But before Stefan in the Q1, there cavorted the factory riders such as Pedrosa and Iannone. So it was rather impossible in the Q2 to come, because these guys just sit on faster machines.
Stefan took the lead at the start, but as expected out of the factory riders. In the last round, Stefan had still open rival Hector Barbera at the rear wheel, which was 0.05 seconds faster than Stefan.
Stefan will start from 15th off tomorrow in the race.
On the edge, you must mention that the pole was reached for the first time since 2007 by a Suzuki Aleix Espargaro grabbed the best starting place in his home GP.
We wish you much fun in the race and Stefan much success!
