A clever medium rear tyre gamble helped MotoGP rookie Fermin Aldeguer cla🌟im his second Sprint podium of the season on Saturday at Aragon.

Starting from seventh place, the Gresini rider was up to fifth on lap one, then picked off Pedro Acosta and Franco Morbidelli to join team-mate Alex Marquez and title leader Marc Marquez on the rostrum.

“We were very fast!” 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aldeguer sa💃ꦫid. “Maybe the Sprint is too short for the medium to work, but we did a god job when we took this decision and now we have more information for tomorrow.”

While the soft rear was the overwhelming favourite for the half-distance race, the medium is set to dominate the grand prix grid – when Aldeguer will be one of only five riders to have extra knowledge of the tyre from the Sprint.

“Why don’t we try it. We’re rookies. If we finish seventh,🐲 we don’t take a lot of points [anyway] but we will have more info for tomorrow,” Aldeguer said.

“Today it was g⭕ood and I’m super happy with the d♕ecision.”

“We talked with the team, maybe the medium wouldn’t perform on🌺 the first laps. 

"But Frankie [Carchedi, crew chief] said to me, now you know the Michelin tyre. 💧If you try to push more than the grip you have, maybe you’ll lose more time. Be calm and do the race lap by lap.

“In the start, I fought with Pedro, but the tyre wasn’t ready. Then after so✨me lap✱s it was better. We managed the race well.”

The young Spaniard admitted that being a rookie means he has more freedom to make such tyre decisions.

“Also Marc probably knew the medium was better, but he had mor⛄e to lose,” he said.&nℱbsp;

“I just said, ‘if I feel good wit𝓰h this tyre, why don’t we try it?’ We are rookies. We played with t🦹his advantage.”

Aragon was the second time this season that Aldeguer has joined the Maꩵrquez brothers on the Sprint rostrum, after his debut top thre༒e at Le Mans.

“It's super nice. 🐬Marc is my idol. Alex is my team-mate. Now we will have party in Gresini hospitality. It can’t be better – unless I’m first!” he smiled.

Aldeguer, eighth in the world ch⛎ampionship, will be chasing his second ꧅grand prix podium of the season on Sunday.