A very difficult weekend in Qatar. The only consolation is to leave for Valencia with the third place in the world championship, For the rest, things get complicated already in FP when due to a yellow badiera I can’t get straight into Q2. In Q1 by a few hundredths we miss qualifying in Q1 and […]
We arrive in Malaysia after a break that was a real panacea for me, a break that allowed me to recover a little more physically. I am still not 100 percent but when I am on the bike and grit my teeth I can ride. In FP the pace is good, I’m happy even though […]
Thai GP: nice comeback in the race and great tussle
We arrive in Thailand the last leg of the Asian trifecta. A trifecta that really challenged me physically after my collarbone injury. Paradoxically, the first race in Indonesia, only 5 days after surgery, I had suffered less than in Australia. At the pace level I find myself immediately competitive, I center direct access in Q2 […]
The decision not to run the Sprint race on Sunday was definitely the right one because the weather conditions were really prohibitive. In my case in particular, Sunday’s would have been a sprint that would have put me in great difficulty, since with the cold and with those conditions not yet being at 100 percent […]
Indonesia: a race against time after fractured collarbone
I usually give thanks at the end. But this time is different. It’s only thanks to Dr. Porcellini and his team, my trainer Carlo, the physical therapists and my entire team that I was able to get back on track after breaking my collarbone last Friday at the Ranch. Before the surgery I was down […]
Motegi: could have been better, could have been worse…it’s okay
A difficult weekend in Japan. We come after the great victory in India on a track I am particularly fond of since I made the podium here in a world championship race. We need free practice to get the right confidence and we center direct access to Q2. Qualifying immediately proves complicated as I immediately […]
We arrive in India after the nice podium in Misano and with my hand starting to hurt less. Just before leaving, however, the news of the sudden death of a close friend of mine, a driver with whom I have raced many times and to whom I am particularly close, shocks me. In the days […]
The home GP always has a special flavor. The days leading up to the race weekend are not easy, since after the crash in Barcelona my hand hurts and at a challenging circuit like Misano I know I will struggle. We start turning, I immediately turn well, and on Friday I manage to set a […]
A bad Sunday, where I still find myself knocked out on the first corner and I remedy a bad blow to my hand. I go back to the pits and restart with the second bike, which, however, has soft in front (the only tire in front), and I fight until the end so I can […]
A race like Sunday’s was needed after the crash at Silverstone and the bad hit in Saturday’s sprint. We start the weekend very well, with a good driving feeling and a new track record. In Saturday’s Q2, however, some smearing on the good lap penalized me a bit. I know that starting in P7 is […]
