I was coming into Brno wanting to make up for the crash in the last race. Friday had gone decently — good feeling, up at the front of the group. Then Saturday came the Sprint, and with it the worst moment of my career. Two laps from the end I crashed at Turn 3. One […]
I arrived here with Mugello still fresh in my eyes. I’ll admit that in the days after I watched the race about ten times — I didn’t remember much of it because of the adrenaline, so I had to go back and watch everything from the start. Nice to do, but then you close the […]
There are weekends when results matter less than usual. This is one of them. Barcelona didn’t go well on the performance side. Friday I felt good — seventh in pre-qualifying, straight into Q2. Then on Saturday something broke in my feeling with the bike. A crash in qualifying, ninth in the Sprint — I couldn’t […]
After the long break, we were all wondering whether we could be competitive at Jerez too — a track where Aprilias have always struggled a bit. Friday went better than expected — third in pre-qualifying, straight through to Q2. On the soft some old problems came back, but there was still margin to work with. […]
I’ve always liked Austin. A tough track, technical, full of bumps and direction changes that never give you a moment’s rest. It’s not a track where you can hide — either you’re there or you’re not. And for years I couldn’t finish the way I wanted. Friday was decent — fourth in pre-qualifying, good pace, […]
Friday I was twentieth. When I think about it now, it feels pretty strange. Twentieth. In the rain, no feeling, a bike I couldn’t figure out and a track I’d never seen before. It’s not easy to handle moments like that — the only thing we know how to do is work. Me and the […]
