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 [...]
Pos | Rider | Bike | Time/Gap 1. Sergio Gadea Aprilia 39m07.577s 2. Nicolas Terol Aprilia + 0.078s 3. Julian Simon Aprilia [...]
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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 thought [...]
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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 to [...]
Pos | Driver | Bike | Time | Gap 1. Hector Barbera Aprilia 1:40.019 22 2. Hiroshi Aoyama [...]
Pos | Driver | Bike | Time | Gap 1. Sandro Cortese Derbi 1m45.430s 2. Julian Simon Aprilia [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 things [...]
