Andrea Locatelli ‘not fully there when trying to push, but confidence is high’

Andrea Locatelli says his confidence with the R1 is ‘quite high’, but when trying to push for a fast lap time it’s ‘not f🅺ully there’.

Andrea Locatelli
Andrea Locatelli

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Locatelli managed to match 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea’s lap time in the closing stages of the Catalunya WorldSBK test, however, th🍨e Italian struggled to match Rea’s consistency.

After a brilliant opening round where he could have wo🎃n Race 2, Locatelli cemented himself as one of the serie🍨s’ top riders. 

But feeling less than 100% fit fur to his crash on the final lap of Race 2 in Phillip Island, Locatelli a🌺dmitted he wasn’t able to get the best from his R1.

Speakin🤡g after day-two, Locatelli added: “It was an interesting day – It’s always a ෴bit strange riding here compared to some other circuits, we know that on this track we can have some wheel spin compared to Phillip Island.

“In Australia the gꦚrip from the new tarmac was incredible, so here is another condit🅷ion and it is important to learn and know what we can improve in the set-up to manage this.

“But in the end, I think we did a good job – I have g♋ood confidence and a good feeling on my R1. I am not 100% physically, bec꧋ause when I crashed in Phillip Island, I had some pain in my knee – the confidence on the bike is quite high like always but my feeling when I am trying to push is not quite fully there.

“We did a lot of laps, understood a lot ☂🤪of things but we will see during the race because that can be another story.”

With Kawasaki competitive in Phillip Island thanks to Alex Lowes, Ducati and B☂MW being in the mix, and Rea seemingly making a step forward with his R1, challengers for race wins could be even higher at round two this weekend.

But Locatelli wants to focus on what he can control: “We are always focused only on ourselves during t�🌄�esting to try to do the best job – I was happy we did a lot of laps on used tyres yesterday.

“Unfortunately today during the long run we had a technical problem so we lost a littleﷺ bit this opportunity.

“Now I have some days to recover at home an༒d I hope to be fighting again for the podium next w꧙eek.”

At GRT Yama🐬ha, Remy Gardner was the stan𒊎dout rider particularly on day-one as he challenged Rea for top spot on multiple occasions.

After a test that al💖so involved a crash on day-one, the Australian said: "It was a solid test overall, we did some good ꩵwork in my opinion.

“We focused on long distanc꧟e runs and I ca♈n say I'm satisfied with the job done, it was a productive test.

“Unfortunately, a small crash slowed the whoꩵle process on the first day; despite having a decent feeling with the hard soft front tyre, it probably got cold and I ended up crashing at Turn 5.

“That didn't prevent us from improving and our pace is good, even though we know there's still margin to imp๊rove.

“Unfortunately, I wasn't able to put together all my best sect👍ors during my fast lap, but we can be confident for the race weekend."

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