Jerez.- Suzuki ‘s comes from a very positive inertia, with two consecutive podiums and installed at the top of the championship general, tied with the leader Fabio Quartararo.
Right now, even the Frenchman cites Alex Rins as his main rival in the fight for the championship, a duel that could very well take place this Sunday at the MotoGP race of the Spanish Grand Prix.
“The sensations have been good from the beginning, better in FP1 than in FP2”, explained Rins this Thursday in Jerez.
“In the morning the track was quite complicated, we had to do different lines than usual here in Jerez because of the patches of water, but it is true that in the afternoon it cost me more and I did not find the sensations with the front end, I couldn’t get into the corner fast, throw the bike and turn.
“For tomorrow we will seek to change the set-up a bit to rediscover that feeling that makes you go fast. In the end we have good traction and we can handle the exit of the corner when the front wheel is lifted, but we are missing those good sensations braking that we have lost in FP2”, summed up the man from Suzuki.
A loss of sensations that is related to some patches of humidity that persisted from the rain of the previous night.
“It could be that that was the reason, I think the track did not have enough grip, that’s what I felt, but then you see that the people have gone very fast, Fabio [Quartararo] has a very good pace, we are there, but we lack a point of confidence”.
Precisely, the Frenchman was the fastest on the time sheet, with the Catalan eighth to more than six tenths.
“Quartararo has always ridden very fast on this circuit, even last year in the race if it wasn’t for the problem he had with his arm he would have won, so it will be very difficult to stop him,” said Rins, who ruled out “completely the soft rear rubber For the race, with our bike we can only do one or two laps, and also we don’t slow down as much as most of our rivals do. We’re good at the pace, I’ve done 10 laps in a row and I’m happy, we have good information for Sunday “, settled.
