BAUTISTA TO CHALLENGE FOR TOP 10 AT MUGELLO

2018-06-03 12:27
Ángel Nieto Team rider has best qualifying session of the season and will try to move further up the order at the Italian Grand Prix on raceday.
Valentino Rossi, the local hero at the Italian Grand Prix, will start from pole position tomorrow. He has not won at Mugello for a decade, and it had been a year and a half since his last pole position. Jorge Lorenzo will start from second at Ducati's home track and Maverick Viñales will do so from third. Marc Márquez, leader of the World Championship after the first five races of the season, will start from sixth.

Álvaro Bautista will try tomorrow to fight for the Top 10 at the Italian Grand Prix, in a race in which he will start from sixteenth. The Ángel Nieto Team rider made a small change to his bike with his crew, which allowed him to recover some positions compared to free practice. Karel Abraham crashed in the fourth free practice session and, although he escaped unhurt, he had to complete qualifying with his second bike. The Czech made a mistake on his best lap and was unable to lower his time, forcing him to start from twenty-second position tomorrow.

16th Álvaro Bautista 1:47.708: "Yesterday we had some problems and today we made a change to the bike that helped me a little bit. We don’t have a bad race pace, but we still need a quick lap. It was the best qualifying session of the season for us, we will start from higher up than other races and we must take advantage of that. Tomorrow, with the heat and with this demanding track, it will be a difficult race; we will have to know how to manage it. If we can make a good start we can be consistent, so we will try to take advantage of that to fight for the Top 10."

22nd Karel Abraham 1:48.532: "I'm fine after the crash, but I'm not happy because we could have done more here. We don’t know what it was due to, because I wasn’t going faster than usual nor was I braking. Today has been tough for me physically as I’m still a little ill. I made a mistake at the Savelli corner on my last lap in qualifying and when I got to the Arrabiattas the turn was very difficult. Tomorrow I expect a physically tough race, but I hope to fight for the points and I think we can get it."

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