The problems that the Italian drags in this start of the championship contrast, at least apparently, with the ease exhibited by the Honda , who this Friday took part in a collective training session 265 days after that fall in which he broke his arm .
“I expected Márquez to come back quickly, it seems to me that he is very fit. I see him as fast as before he fell”, he released when asked how he interpreted the sixth place of the Spaniard.
After the first two stops on the calendar, Rossi adds only four points, which corresponded to him for finishing 12th at the World Cup premiere in Doha. A week later and in the same scenario, he finished 16th and did not score, something that in the 416 grand prizes that appear on his service record has only happened four times – without counting crashes and abandonments.
This Friday, Il Dottore could not get past 15th position in the table and was more than 1.2 seconds behind Pecco Bagnaia, who was the fastest of all. A couple of weeks ago, when leaving Losail, the rider from Tavullia said that he really wanted to get to Europe, where the circuits to which he is best suited are concentrated. However, Portimao is not one of them, given the problems caused by his M1 and the poor race he had last year, when he crossed the finish line 12th, 19 seconds behind Miguel Oliveira, the winner.
“I said that in Europe there are circuits that I know very well, but we started on one that is very nice but not easy. I don’t want to have to wait for certain tracks to be competitive, but rather I want to be competitive in all of them”, added the rider of the Petronas -sponsored Yamaha team.
“This track may not be the same as the others, but it’s not that different either. Here what you need is a motorcycle that is as stable as possible, that sticks to the ground as much as possible to be able to avoid the changes in elevation and the descents that there are”, settled the #46 , who despite everything trusts in being able to correct the lack of grip that suffers, to aspire to get into the group that gives direct access to the second screen of the timed (Q2).
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