BETA TOOLS SPEEDUP
FREE PRACTICES: SECOND AND TENTH POSITION FOR LÓPEZ AND ALDEGUER AT THE THAILAND GRAND PRIX
Moto2 is in action again this weekend for the third consecutive Grand Prix and after years it has returned to the Chang International Circuit, in Buriram, Thailand.
First positive day for Beta Tools SpeedUp team which closed Thai Friday with the second time of Alonso López and the tenth of Fermín Aldeguer at +0.173 and +0.761 from the first in the standings.
For number #21 it was a complicated start due to technical problems that forced him to pit after the first lap. Alonso then managed to get back on track in the final ten minutes of the first session on slick tires, finishing in p21 in 1’38.204. His improvement during FP2 is remarkable; after just a few laps he showed pace and speed, finishing the first day of free practice in 2nd position in 1’36.453 scored during the twelfth lap.
Once again Fermín encountered a track unknown to him proving to be able to adapt very quickly. The mixed conditions in the morning complicated the start of FP1 for number #54 who, after a stop at the garage and a slick tire change, concluded the session in p18 in 1’37.943. The feeling with the track improved during fp2 and with a time of 1’37,041 Fermín and his team confirmed themselves in the top ten with 10th place and provisional access to tomorrow’s Q2.
ALONSO LÓPEZ #21: 2nd in 1’36.453
“The day went very well after we managed to solve the technical problems in the morning. I am very happy with the final result because during the first session I was hardly able to enter and this afternoon we have recovered the usual feeling. For tomorrow we hope to continue like this, I think we can lap very fast both on dry and wet track. Thanks a lot to the team for all the work they have done!”.
FERMÍN ALDEGUER #54: 10th in 1’37.041
“I am happy with the result obtained today, even in the wet we went quite fast despite it being the first time for me at this circuit. On a dry track the feeling was more or less good, so much so that at the end of the day we managed to get into provisional Q2 and this is the important thing. If we continue to work like this, it will be easy to improve”.
