alex rins did better than finishing on a very good note a first season of MotoGP which had started with the pain of injuries. And the frustration of packages. Five Grands Prix were thus missed due to a delicate hand injury which followed a worrying back injury. But the Spaniard returned to a Suzuki team full of doubt. A hell of adversity well mastered and apparently better handled than on the side of his elder, and Grand Prix winner, Andrea Iannone. On this point the Valencia meeting was edifying.
There was some doubt about this 21-year-old hope and we can consider it to have been lifted. alex rins, it's solid and it reassured the last skeptics last Sunday on the Ricardo Tormo route. Qualified only tenth while his teammate settled on the third cone of the first row, Kidneys made an intelligent race which led him to bring his stablemate into line while keeping a certain Valentino Rossi. Sorry!
« Overall it was a good weekend,” declares the person concerned. “ I was hoping for a better place after Q.2, but it ended up not being so bad. In the warm-up, I was able to get into a good rhythm. I was confident I could repeat it in the race. At the start, I lost a few positions after a mistake then I kept attacking to get back up. I think it was a great day to end this season. I'm already in Tuesday's tests because we will start work for 2018 ».
A work that can be done with the same regulatory leeway in force at Aprilia and KTM. Because the disastrous season made by Suzuki allows the manufacturer to once again enjoy 9 engines instead of 7, as when it arrived in MotoGP, while being able to work on the mechanics, the aerodynamics and all the points of the GSX-RR without be constrained by a limited testing schedule.
In the championship, despite his setbacks, Kidneys finished sixteenth, 11 points behind Iannone thirteenth, despite an absence from Austin to Assen…
#ValenciaGP MotoGP: Ranking
| 1 | 26 | Dani PEDROSA | Honda | 46'08.125 |
| 2 | 5 | johann zarco | Yamaha | +0.337 |
| 3 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Honda | +10.861 |
| 4 | 42 | Alex Rins | Suzuki | +13.567 |
| 5 | 46 | Valentino ROSSI | Yamaha | +13.817 |
| 6 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Suzuki | +14.516 |
| 7 | 43 | Jack Miller | Honda | +17.087 |
| 8 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda | +17.230 |
| 9 | 51 | Michael PIRRO | Ducati | +25.942 |
| 10 | 53 | Tito RABAT | Honda | +27.020 |
| 11 | 38 | Bradley SMITH | KTM | +30.835 |
| 12 | 25 | Maverick VIÑALES | Yamaha | +35.012 |
| 13 | 9 | Danilo PETRUCCI | Ducati | +38.076 |
| 14 | 17 | Karel ABRAHAM | Ducati | +41.988 |
| 15 | 8 | Hector BARBERA | Ducati | +47.703 |
| 16 | 76 | Loris BAZ | Ducati | +47.709 |
| 17 | 60 | Michael VAN DER MARK | Yamaha | +52.134 |
| Not Classified | ||||
| 44 | Pol Espargaró | KTM | 5 lapses | |
| 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati | 5 lapses | |
| 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati | 6 lapses | |
| 22 | Sam LOWES | Aprilia | 8 lapses | |
| 19 | Alvaro BAUTISTA | Ducati | 16 lapses | |
| 45 | Scott REDDING | Ducati | 26 lapses | |
| 41 | Aleix Espargaro | Aprilia | 27 lapses | |
| 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 28 lapses |
