After Misano, Austria came around quickly — and for once that was good news. After a mistake it’s essential to get back on the bike as soon as possible. Friday wasn’t the best of Fridays. The pace wasn’t bad, but we weren’t close to the ones up front — Pedro, Jorge and Marc were riding […]
Misano is home. I always arrive here with a different energy — the crowd, the atmosphere, the warmth of the fans. This time even more so, because I was coming off a weekend in Aragon that had given a lot of positive answers, my body was improving, and the bike was going well. Friday, good […]
I arrived at Aragon knowing it was going to be a tough track. Last year we struggled a lot here, and I had no reason to expect anything different. But no — I worked well together with all my guys and we were fast from Friday. Pole position with a new lap record, double podium […]
Usually the thank-yous come at the end. This time I want to say them first. These have been difficult days, very difficult. After Germany I had to have two operations — the collarbone, which was a complicated fracture and the recovery in the first few days was hard, and then the knee: what was supposed […]
I arrived at the Sachsenring still carrying some pain from Assen. I wasn’t at 100%, and I knew it. The plan was simple: step by step, assess how I was feeling session by session, don’t push what couldn’t be pushed. Friday went better than I expected. Seventh in pre-qualifying, through to Q2 — not at […]
I’ve had plenty of bad crashes, but Sunday’s was probably one of the worst. Fortunately I didn’t break anything, but the impact was really violent. I was attacking Marc for fourth position and came into the corner a bit faster than the bike could handle. I lost the front at almost 200 km/h. From that […]
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 […]
