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aprile 10, 2016 - Suzuki Racing

Viñales on the 2nd row at cota Motogp™

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Team #suzuki ECSTAR’s Maverick Viñales will start from the second row at tomorrow’s MotoGP™ World Championship third round at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, #texas as team-mate Aleix Espargaró qualified on row three. 

Viñales set himself in between the top riders once again in today’s qualifying, resulting in being the fifth fastest rider in Q2 with a time of 2’04.247. Because of the penalisation of Iannone, who will be penalised by three places, Viñales will jump to fourth place on the grid. His positive day started in morning’s free practice, when a few improvements in his GSX-RR’s set-up allowed him to improve his lap times and get the direct access to Q2. In qualifying, some more troubles with the set-up and the new tyres made his session a little harder, but he found the pace to record a second-row start. 

The improvements for Aleix Espargaró continued today as well, with significant drops in his lap times. The set-up is giving him more and more confidence and this led to a positive performance. Although in FP3 he couldn’t get direct access to Q2, his determination helped him to score a solid lap time in Q1, and the 12th rider to get into the qualifying for the top 12. In the following Q2, he could be effective and finally score the 2’04.408 that sets him on the third row. 

Davide Brivio – Team Manager: 

“At the end we managed to recover today that started in a hard way for some reasons. With Maverick we are still trying to fix some problems that are making his job hard, but despite these, he could get a really good position for the grid but thinking ahead to the race, we still have some work to do on making his tyre working better. Although Aleix had to pass through Q1 he finally managed to get into Q2 and he did a good job, getting the third row and he showed progress as well, which is important.”