The Englishman from the Pramac Racing team was relatively successful at MotorLand on Friday in the wet, setting the sixteenth best time of the day ahead of Maverick Vinales, Jonas Folger and Danilo Petrucci.
So far everything was going well, but things were going to get complicated little by little for the Andorran resident, therefore a neighbor of the circuit. On Saturday morning in the dry, Scott once again took sixteenth fastest time, therefore not automatically qualifying him for Q2. In qualifying, he only achieved the twelfth time in Q1 out of fourteen and the message was said: he would make up the last row of the 100% British starting grid with Bradley Smith et Sam Lowes.
He gained four places at the start of the race and was quickly in eighteenth position, before progressing to fifteenth on the eighth lap, after overtaking Bradley Smith, Danilo Petrucci and Karel Abraham. He maintained this fifteenth place throughout the race, then moved up one position on the last lap, passing Tito Rabat.
In the championship, this allowed Redding to move up to twelfth place tied with Jack Miller, the Australian having finished just ahead of him in Aragon. It was one of Scott's poorest results this year, having finished in the top 10 four times.
According to Scott Redding, who are " I can't say I'm satisfied with this weekend. Qualifying went poorly, but I tried to stay focused and catch up. I managed to have a good race pace and that gives me confidence for the next three consecutive Grands Prix. »
Riders on the storm
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Provisional ranking of the World Championship (Top 20):
1 Marc MARQUEZ-Honda 224 points
2 Andrea DOVIZIOSO-Ducati 208
3 Maverick VIÑALES-Yamaha 196
4 Dani PEDROSA-Honda 170
5 Valentino ROSSI-Yamaha 168
6 Johann ZARCO-Yamaha 117
7 Jorge LORENZO-Ducati 106
8 Danilo PETRUCCI-Ducati 95
9 Cal CRUTCHLOW-Honda 92
10 Jonas FOLGER-Yamaha 84
11 Alvaro BAUTISTA-Ducati 70
12 Jack MILLER-Honda 56
13 Scott REDDING-Ducati 56
14 Aleix ESPARGARO-Aprilia 53
15 Loris BAZ-Ducati 39
16 Andrea IANNONE-Suzuki 37
17 Pol ESPARGARO-KTM 37
18 Karel ABRAHAM-Ducati 28
19 Tito RABAT-Honda 28
20 Alex RINS-Suzuki 27
Photos © Pramac Racing Limited
