FREE PRACTICE: ALDEGUER TO LEAD TEXAN FRIDAY, FENATI TWENTY-THIRD
The Grand Prix of the Americas has started with an incredible Aldeguer at the top of the free practice standings, while Romano Fenati closed Friday on 23rd position.
Unusual time schedule for the intermediate class that kicked off the fourth round of the world championship by going out on track at nine in the morning. MB Conveyors SpeedUp riders finished the first free practice session in p20 (Fenati 2’12.579) and p21 (Aldeguer 2’13.175) with a total of 13 and 12 laps. Track conditions not optimal and a series of yellow flags that cancelled the fastest laps of the two riders on their Boscoscuro bikes, binding the final result of FP1.
In the second session of the first day, the 17-year-old Spaniard put the turbo. An easy change to the bike setting between the two sessions was enough for Fermín to find the right feeling and set the first time of the Texan Friday in 2’09.155, leaving everyone speechless once again.
Romano also showed improvements between the two sessions by lowering his lap time by more than a second (2’11,573), but there is still a lot of work to be done to reduce the gap from the top. Number five will use the latest free practice tomorrow morning to advance in the standings.
FERMÍN ALDEGUER #54: 1st
“Happy with this first day at COTA, I feel very good with the bike. After FP1 we made a change to the bike setting, finding what we lacked to increase confidence and then scoring the result obtained at the end of the day. The goal for tomorrow is to continue like this, learning, improving and of course, if we could keep the position it would be perfect!”.
ROMANO FENATI # 5: 23rd
“Not a Friday that we expected. We are far from the top but we are working to try to reduce the gap. We expect improvements in tomorrow’s FP3 so that we can face the qualifying with more confidence. Keep fighting!”.
