When reading the timesheet at the end of this Friday which marked the first day of the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, we still noticed the name of Espargaró in the top 10. Certainly, but the surprise was the first name of Aleix and not from Pol. That being said, since the start of the overseas campaign, the KTMs have kind of faded away while the Aprilia has been reinvigorated. A reversal which hardly amuse the youngest of the family…
As the best KTM rider, Pol Espargaro finished just 16th during the first day of MotoGP testing at the Sepang International Circuit. The Red Bull representative also dropped more than two seconds off the best record time of fabio quartararo. " The track was faster than expected, but unfortunately not for us », regrets the teammate of a Rock definitely last. “ If you look at Fabio's times, the track is even faster. But we have a lot of difficulties, even more than the others ». Hafiz Syahrin (19e) and Mika Kallio (20th) are in fact more than three seconds behind the best time…
In 2018, at Sepang, I will espargaro lost 1,4 seconds to the best times. “ While we're faster than we were a year ago, it's definitely not fast. Everyone has made much more progress than us. We are a little faster than in 2018. In Motegi and Phillip Island it was exactly the same “, declared the 28-year-old pilot. “ No matter what we try we won't go into the turn, have no traction and a lot of slippage. As a result, the tire wears out more quickly in the race and we don't have the best top speed in a straight line. After all, it's our weak point this whole season. I don't know… We have real problems »
« In the middle of the curve we don't have enough grip on the rear wheel, and not in the acceleration to be fast in a straight line. Even on the brakes we can hardly slow down the motorcycle on the rear wheel. All you have to do is look at the results of all KTMs to understand that we have problems ", has explained I will espargaro. " I'm always the one with the least problems and who could be happy, but I'm two seconds behind the best time of the day, which we've ever had. Maybe the first year, but not since. »
The Spaniard does not have much hope for the future of events: “ we have an idea of what we can do for Saturday. But we don't know if it will work. We are far from where we want to be “, he said frustrated. “ We didn't expect these problems, even in Japan and Australia. Since we left Europe we have problems »
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