The year is 1992, the circuit is Interlagos in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A rain-hit qualifying session sees Jorge Martínez “Aspar” start from 25th position on the grid. The signs were not good for the man from Alzira until the green light was shown and from that point things could not have gone better as he [...]
Pos | Driver | Bike | Time 1. Hiroshi Aoyama Honda 40m44.008s 2. Hector Barbera Aprilia +4.424 3. Marco Simoncelli Gilera +10.339 4. Aleix Espargaro Aprilia +11.383 5. Roberto Locatelli Gilera +11.596 6. Alex Debon Aprilia +14.265 7. Karel Abraham Aprilia +17.982 8. Hector Faubel Honda +19.012 9. Rattapark Wilairot Honda +20.92610. Raffaele de Rosa [...]
Pos | Rider | Bike | Time/Gap 1. Sergio Gadea Aprilia 39m07.577s 2. Nicolas Terol Aprilia + 0.078s 3. Julian Simon Aprilia + 0.901s 4. Bradley Smith Aprilia + 12.356s 5. Andrea Iannone Aprilia + 12.400s 6. Stefan Bradl Aprilia + 20.468s 7. Jonas Folger Aprilia + 20.755s 8. Simone Corsi Aprilia + 21.263s 9. [...]
250cc 11th Mike Di Meglio: “I had a good start and tried to pick up positions quickly. At the beginning I was riding with the lead group, so I had to push to keep up with them. I felt very comfortable riding, but suddenly the rear end of my bike started to slide out. I [...]
250cc 3rd Álvaro Bautista 1.40.210 (22 laps): “I had a few problems with the front end in corner entry this afternoon, which I think is because we were running a used front tyre and a new rear. About halfway through this afternoon’s qualifying we started to make some progress with the bike and I began [...]
Pos | Driver | Bike | Time | Gap 1. Hector Barbera Aprilia 1:40.019 22 2. Hiroshi Aoyama Honda 1:40.192 + 0.173 21 3. Alvaro Bautista Aprilia 1:40.210 + 0.191 22 4. Marco Simoncelli Gilera 1:40.320 + 0.301 19 5. Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 1:40.796 + 0.777 21 6. Alex Debon Aprilia 1:40.830 + 0.811 20 [...]
Pos | Driver | Bike | Time | Gap 1. Sandro Cortese Derbi 1m45.430s 2. Julian Simon Aprilia 1m45.441s +0.011 3. Nicolas Terol Aprilia 1m45.644s +0.214 4. Stefan Bradl Aprilia 1m45.679s +0.249 5. Bradley Smith Aprilia 1m45.712s +0.282 6. Andrea Iannone Aprilia 1m45.911s +0.481 7. Simone Corsi Aprilia 1m45.956s +0.526 8. Pol Espargaro Derbi 1m46.063s [...]
Alvaro Bautista and Mike Di Meglio both crashed, but seemingly walked away uninjured. Pos. Rider Nation Team Lap time 1 H. AOYAMA JPN Scot Racing Team 250cc 1’40.6422 A. BAUTISTA SPA Mapfre Aspar Team + 0.2343 M. PASINI ITA Team Toth Aprilia + 0.3144 M. SIMONCELLI ITA Metis Gilera + 0.4385 A. ESPARGARO SPA Balatonring [...]
Pos. Rider Nation Team Lap time 1 S. GADEA SPA Bancaja Aspar Team 125cc 1’45.9942 B. SMITH GBR Bancaja Aspar Team 125cc + 0.1193 P. ESPARGARO SPA Derbi Racing Team + 0.2544 A. IANNONE ITA Ongetta Team I.S.P.A. + 0.3395 J. SIMON SPA Bancaja Aspar Team 125cc + 0.3846 N. TEROL SPA Jack & Jones [...]
250cc 1st Álvaro Bautista 1.40.817 (27 laps): “To be honest the lap times weren’t particularly quick today. We had a problem at the start of the session and the rear of the bike was sliding around a lot – also the engine wasn’t working as it should be but as the session progressed we ironed [...]