Despite not being familiar with the track and still working on the development of his Inmotec, the progression of Avintia Blusens rider Iván Silva points out the fact that he could end up among the most competitive CRTs. His chances have eventually grown thinner as he was forced to drop by the box to have [...]
KTM-powered riders took up the leading seven positions on the top speed charts today at Estoril, with BANKIA Aspar rider Héctor Faubel the third of them thanks to the added boost of a brand new engine for today’s qualifying practice. His team-mate Alberto Moncayo also benefited from a new motor although he was out of [...]
Luis Salom will start the Portugese Grand Prix Sunday afternoon (14.30 local time, 15.30 CET) from 7th place on the grid. Brad Binder will set off from 14th. Both RW Racing GP riders had a tough qualifying at the Estoril track: a challenging circuit not only because of the lay-out but also for the strong [...]
POWER ELECTRONICS riders Aleix Espargaró and Randy De Puniet are hoping to be the first two CRT riders across the line in tomorrow’s Grand Prix of Portugal after qualifying twelfth and fourteenth respectively this afternoon. De Puniet will race with a minor injury having crashed at the end of qualifying practice, inadvertently taking Colin Edwards [...]
Today the second day of the Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril got underway with the third and final free practice in the morning and the qualifying in the afternoon, both with good weather conditions and all sessions being run on a dry track. Ángel Rodríguez had an unusual day, having to finish the third practice [...]
Team QMMF rider Elena Rosell battled hard and managed to further improve her lap time at her first Grand Prix on the difficult Estoril circuit, but still holds 31st position on the starting grid. The main aim of the only female rider in Grand Prix racing is to finish the race tomorrow and to gain [...]
Second in both of yesterday’s practice sessions in Estoril, Marc Márquez took an all-important step forward on Saturday and topped the timesheet in FP3 and qualifying for the Portuguese Grand Prix —claiming his second pole position in seven days. The poleman at the Circuito de Jerez last weekend, Márquez will be at the head of [...]
Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa were the two fastest riders in qualifying at the Autódromo de Estoril. In a close sessions, the Australian clocked a fastest lap of 1’37.188, just 13 thousandths of a second faster than teammate Dani Pedrosa. It was an almost identical difference to to that of the morning session, in which [...]
The second European round of the 2012 season continued today with the 60 minutes of the qualifying session which decided the starting grid of the last Portuguese race, finally under a fully sunny sky. Pramac Ducati rider Hèctor Barbera put his Ducati GP12 on to the 8th spot on the grid in Estoril this afternoon, [...]
