NO LUCK FOR SCUDERIA CARACCHI IN QATAR
Not a lucky day today for the riders of Scuderia Caracchi in Qatar, as well everybody scored some point for the championship on Losail track, showed by the rain today too.
Which got more has been Fonsi Nieto, very fast during the wet warm up in the morning. The Spanish rider ended twice in 13th position the two races scheduled for Superbike event.
In Race-1 Fonsi started as lightning, ending the first lap in 8th position and running seventh a couple of lap later, but the front tyre stopped working and Fonsi must yield some position; at the moment that the race has been stopped by red flag he was in 11th position.
At the second start all the space before him have been closed and he wasn’t able to repeat the first holeshoot, so someone has been able to overtook him in the final aggregate classification. Also at Race-2 start Fonsi couldn’t find any free space to pass, and he remained locked in the group; more during the third lap an hard braking action by Muggas forced him to lose moro positions, sending him in 19th position. From that moment on Fonsi made a good progression with several overtaking that gave him the final 13th position under the chequered flag.
“I should be satisfied, but I’m only partially”. – commented his performance Fonsi Nieto. “During Race-1 it has been fantastic to stay with the best for a few laps, then some trouble on the front slowed me. For the second heat we made a dry set up, but the track was still wet in several points, more I’ve been looked into the group at the start, while some rider which were behind me when the race stopped find the way free and have been able to recover their delay, so I lost some position. Also in Race-2 at the start I didn’t find any space, then after a few laps an Honda has been close to send me out and I must push hardly to get some position.”
After the yesterday free practice session Lorenzo Lanzi was confident to get their trouble solution, but after the warm up things were differently. During Race-1, in the wet heat, Lorenzo wasn’t fast, then at the new start things were better as long as somebody send him in the gravel, in a three bike crash with him, Gimbert and Neukirchner.
In Race-2 Lanzi had a better start and rode all the 18 lap race just behind the group fighting for the fourth place: he could see his rivals before him, but without be able to cacth them, and ended in 12th position.
“During Race-1 everything has been wrong, from the set up to the crash at a few laps to finish.”. – said Lorenzo Lanzi. “I don’t know exactly who shooted me, but I felt a big shot and I found myself in the gravel together two riders. I felt a bad pain in my right leg, but by luck nothing important, only pain and no fracture! During Race-2 I started at the shoulder of a big group engaged in a close figt, but I’ve been not able to catch them. At the end that was frustrating and I close the throttle, looking to finish the race.”
Race without emotions for Gianluca Nannelli in Supersport. Also for the Tuscany native rider the warm up didn’t give any positive result. At the start Gianluca had a splendid holeshot, moving aside Fujiwara stopped in the front row because his hesitancy engine. At half of the first lap Nannelli was about sixth-seventh placed when, Fujiwara, just him, engaged in a wild recovering, in practice did send him out, forcing him to slow to remain in the track and to lose several positions.
“I was hoping more and more, but the rain during the warm up didn’t allow us to select a good set up, on the contrary we made a more safe setting, but losing some speed”. – said an disappointed Gianluca Nannelli. “I made a very good start, but in the middle of the first lap Fujiwara overtook me very hard in the internal side and I must use a largest line, so I lost several places. Then I could only to look for finish the race and score some important point for the championship.”