This Friday was a favorable day for Iker Lecuona who greatly needs this kind of exposure at the moment. The 21-year-old Spaniard is indeed certain to lose his KTM handlebars at Tech3 next year, since it was announced a week ago that Raul Fernandez would join Remy Gardner in MotoGP under the Tech3 awning. Information made public while Iker was riding during FP4... Petrucci's teammate, no more polished, has nothing left to lose and showed his dexterity on a delicate track during FP2. He’s thinking about the Yamaha Petronas, but there’s been a problem since this morning about that…
And the problem is that there will be no colors Petronas in 2022 in MotoGP. The Moto3 and Moto2 structures are experiencing their last meetings and it seems certain that the men of Razlan Razali will survive on combat rations in MotoGP with so-called “B-Spec” Yamahas. On one of the two, we wait Darryn Brinder, who would make the jump directly from Moto3, which promises us great moments in the peloton, brother Brad himself fearing his younger brother in the games...
However, lecuona has the support of KTM for this transfer. Finally, an encouragement to Stefan pierer who said: “ you can take us Iker Lecuona ", the KTM boss told Spielberg, when he heard about the shortage of riders at Petronas-Yamaha. He will therefore not defend it as Raul Fernandez… But hey, you have to believe it: “ so far nothing has been decided. But the possibility exists at Petronas, that's for sure » says lecuona that holds the top spot. " Petronas-Yamaha has not yet signed both riders for 2022. So I have an opportunity there. But in this world, you never know what will happen. That's why I'm only focusing on this Grand Prix »
And regarding this Austrian deadline, it should be noted that, certainly, the pilot of 21 years old, did not exceed 1th place out of 19 competing drivers during FP20 since Savadori is injured, that Casa Particular in Viñales is suspended, and Pedrosa not here anymore. But after the downpour before FP2 in the afternoon, the KTM Tech3 factory rider achieved the best time of 1'27.520. This by getting the slicks on in time on a track that was drying out. But he was also in the front row when it was soggy.
Lecuona: “you have to be ready for anything”
« The weather here in Styria is very changeable during the day » says lecuona. “ Still, it was a successful FP2 for me. But you have to be ready for anything. Last Sunday we were expecting rain for the entire race day, but our race was dry “, declared the pilot of the orange RC16. “ You don't know yet if there will be a flag to flag race on Sunday or not. I spoke to the team before FP2 and we agreed that we would prepare for all dry, wet and mixed conditions ».
« In FP2 I saw that I felt really strong in the wet. I learned a lot in this wet session. Because now I know where it's slippery and where it's not. In the first really wet laps I got a good idea of the grip conditions in the rain. It's good that we were able to ride here once in such weather. Now I know where I can push when it rains again on Saturday or Sunday " finished lecuona.
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