Talmacsi: Not bad.
Hungarian Gabor Talmacsi finished his🅺 first MotoGP race in 17th place for 🐭the Scot Honda team in Sunday's Grand Prix of Catalunya.
Talmacsi - who finished last season on a 125cc machine, then split with the Aspar-run Balatonring 250cc team after just three rounds of this seasoꩵn - only rode the RC212V for the first🧸 time on Friday afternoon.
The💛 former 125cc world champion finished FP1 with a best lap time 4.616sec from the top, but had closed the deficit to 2.631sec by the end of warm-up.
Hungarian Gabo🥀r Talmacsi finished his first MotoGP race in 17th place for the Scot Honda team in Sunday's Grand Prix of Catalunya.
Talmacsi - who finished last season on a 125cc machine, then split with the As🎀par-run Balatonring 250cc team after just three෴ rounds of this season - only rode the RC212V for the first time on Friday afternoon.
The former 125cc world champion finished FP1 with a best lap time 4.616sec from the top, but had closed the defici൲t to 2.631sec by the end of warm-u💟p.
Talmacsi, unsurprisingly 19th and last in all track sessions prior to the race🐼, gained two positions due to accidents ahead during the grand prix - including team-mate Yuki Takahashi - and was satisfied to have gone the distance.
"Not bad. Less tired than after some 125 races," he said. "After four laps, in which I tried to keep the pace of the others, I understood that that was not my rhythm, so I decided not to ꦛrisk. This is learning time for me. I had a lot of fun and I understood a few things, for example, that I want a🍨 wider handlebars."
Talmacsi finished 31.767sec behind 16th placed Niccolo Canepa (Pramac Ducati) by the end of 🤪the 25 laps.
Talmacsi's fastest lap, on lap 2, was 2.794sec slower than the overall best by Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) and 1.118seꦯc behind next slowest Canepa.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 y꧋ears and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
