This Saturday February 12, 2022, Pol Espargaró answered journalists' questions from the Mandalika circuit in Indonesia, following the second of three days of IRTA testing on this new circuit located on the island of Lombok.
We went to listen (via teleconferencing software) to the words of the Spanish driver who, like the others, was able to benefit today from more favorable track conditions to improve his times.
As usual, we report here the words of Pol Espargaró without the slightest formatting.
Pol, how was your day?
« Overall it went well. I think the bike responds better every day. After two days here I think we are already ready for the first round in Qatar. It's a very positive thing to have this feeling before even starting the season, because we really weren't in this situation last year at this time. I feel good about the race pace, and I think we probably have one of the best paces in the field.
However, we still had problems with the brakes at the front, but even so we managed to stay in the leading group. I don't think there's much more to say: the bike is well born. It's true that these are just tests, but if you look at how the tests in Malaysia went for us, we expected to suffer a lot more here, which in the end is not the case . On the contrary, I think that we are ready for Qatar. »
