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01.05.2015

GRAN PREMIO bwin DE ESPAÑA-Circuito de Jerez FP2

Unfortunately the second free practice session started everything else as optimal, because Stefan rushed immediately to start the 45 ongoing session in the out lap with the used rear tire of the morning. Nothing happened Stefan fortunately, he brought promptly in his motor home is to put on a new leathers. Stefan crashed into turn 12, the rear tires felt, so Stefan, as he would not have been heated up. But that was not the cause, but the sensor for the traction control was broken. Therefore, the TC has not worked. Usually there is a warning light on the dashboard, but Stefan saw nothing.
He had a slide and thought to be able to catch him this was not possible however.
Stefan went after about 15 min with the #2 bike again on the piste hard with a new rear tire on time hunting to machine, but the #2 had not all setup changes the #1 motorcycle. In the TV was clearly seeing the Yamaha when braking was as unstable and that she are strongly pumped when accelerating on the rear. It was no stability on brake and the back it was too soft. With more over running at the front, they wanted to achieve more stability on the brake but the crash all nullified. At the #2, a lot had been changed, for example, a longer swingarm and a small change to the fork.
But also it was not much, once again the traction control was too aggressive. It was added that the grip of the track in the afternoon was much worse than at morning. All the drivers had problems to improve the time from FP1.
The configuration said such problems had not had the test in November, because it was cold. Today, it had 28° air temperature and 43 ° asphalt. But the conditions are the same for all.
Thus, Stefan could turn unfortunately only 9 complete rounds, making voting work not easier. Of course, Stefan fell also places this and is now available in the timesheet on 20th place with 1.5 seconds behind the fastest again Jorge Lorenzo.
You should also mention Stefan got a thick cold, a gift of the air conditioning of the flight back from Argentina to Germany.
20.04.2015

GP RED BULL DE LA REPUBLICA ARGENTINA Race

The Argentina GP is history.
We saw a great race, unfortunately not with the hopped success for Stefan. He started quite passable in the race and came out of the first lap as 14 across the finish line. Then Stefan rode to 12th place.
Stefan stayed there until the middle of the race, but then the problems started with the traction control.
Apparently the electronics could not optimally respond changing rear tire on the in the contour, because as Stefan lost two-tenths in each of the three highspeed corners (which are crossed with over 200 km / h). Only six-tenths are in this three corners.
Stefan was easy to overtake for the other riders at this moment.
So Stefan fell back to 17th, but he fight again in the points back. In the last lap, had Stefan back overtake even more Nicky Hayden and secured the 15th place and this last point also with happiness through the fall of Aoyama on his official factory Honda.
We see it positive, after the two zeros in the first two races this at least to a point back to home. In Qatar due he a mistake as 16th in the last lap and in Austin shot down from Miller,  is not so exited. Of course, Stefan is understandably disappointed yesterday from the race, but the racing can be so hard. The season is still long, it can happen a lot. We think the team know where it must fix the lever from the technical side and looking forward to Jerez.
Stefan was already on the track test and he was there really fast.
Sounds promising, but you also must relative this. 2014, the tires of the open bikes were softer than this year, and it was an different electronic. This year come the level again closer. To get the good Ducati’s and well functioning Suzuki’s and strong open Hondas!
All together reasons why it is more difficult to get points this season.
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