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A Grand Prix to forget for Stefan Bradl, the race went pretty wrong everything could go wrong.
Not only that Stefan had to pull out of 21 place, so he fabricated a false start, which no one was.
Stefan twitched briefly, because the row has also shrugged before him, but slowed again from before the red light of the starting lights went out. Nevertheless grumbled Bradl on a ride-trough-penalty.
As this would by itself not enough punishment had Stefan twice drive the pit lane because his dashboard went crazy.
In the second or third lap a yellow light flickered, then went a red light to which the "Alarm" means. In
addition, the bottom line was in Dasboard where normally the sector and lap times are displayed completely black. Thus Stefan thought it would be a big engine problem coming. insecure young Stefan decided to ride
to the box, it is not particularly inspire confidence with 300km / h the mountain to go up and then to have a major engine failures. In the box, the crew checked everything sent Bradl but back on track.

But for the penalty he had to go again through the pit lane, because according to the rules does not count to the ride-through penalty to sit on a technically conditional stop. Probably underwent the Race Direction an error of a false alarm the dashboard transmitted in the bustle of the race rather than the right
information at the drive-through penalty.

Ultimately Bradl went with his unscheduled pit stop to play it safe, because not knowing whether the traction control and all the other systems can still work promptly end up in hospital.In back-to-back races, as are Spielberg and Brno next week, one must not afford injuries. After 28 laps it was enough for Stefan with all superfluous problems only for 19th place. Teammate Bautista remained although spared the like,
but he also remained as 16 any points. That Hector Barbera had a similar problem with the Dashboard is a small
consolation, he was even disqualified because he not fulfilled his ride-trough.
 

The summer break is over and finally it goes continues with MotoGP! Not all people were able to enjoy three weeks summer holidays, so many teams drove straight from Sachsenring to Austria in the beautiful
Steiermark to the RedBull Ring test. So also Stefans Aprilia factory Team with his teammate Alvaro Bautista. There was a test for 3 days, at which Stefan could not attend because of his concussion from Sachsenring.
Bradl had to conserve. Bautista did the test work and could go out a setup that Stefan used today in FP2 and it was positive. But one after anonther. This morning in the first free practice proved to the search for the limit to
be very difficult task, it was like very cold like Sachsenring, it had only 9 °air temperature and only 14 ° asphalt. This is very, very cold to bring on the long straights of the RB-ring tires decency on temperature.

This also got several riders to feel equal, Pedrosa, Aleix Espargaró and Laverty were the prominent crash victims, as well as Stefan. When accelerating his Aprilia made a long powerwheelie and his front wheel did not turn as freely as it should. Then, when the front wheel touched down, the wheel speed was very low compared to the current speed and this speed difference is a blocking front equal. Added to this was strong kickback and Stefan was only passenger. A crash was thus inevitable. Luckily he did nothing, he just lost only important training time.
In the afternoon to FP2 it was 7-8 ° warmer, which already came to meet the protagonists. Although still not optimum temperatures, but at least not as cold as in the morning. As mentioned marched Stefan after the shock of the morning and the lost riding time with the setup Bautista and has been improved by 1.6 seconds compared to the first free practice. Nevertheless, the end was only the 20th rank.

But other riders have also problems, an Dani Pedrosa is just one place ahead of Stefan. For tomorrow Bradl gets a new and more powerful engine and the winglets are removed, although this increases more wheelie but the air resistance decreases. On the long straights that should not be a disadvantage, because here it comes on each additional km / h. The fast factory Ducatis are 10 km / h faster and play in a league of its own.