Sabato di miglioramenti per il team MV Agusta Forward Racing che fa un passo avanti rispetto alle libere del venerdì e va vicino a strappare l’accesso alla Q2. Miglioramenti cominciati nel mattino per Stefano Manzi durante le FP3, pur non riuscendo ad accedere direttamente alla corsa per la pole. In Q1, poi, il pilota romagnolo dà battaglia ma non riesce a passare il turno: il suo giro in 1’36.342 resta fuori dalla top 4 per meno di un decimo e lo vedrà scattare dalla 7a fila domani. Dall’altro lato del box Simone Corsi non riesce a risalire la classifica, chiudendo in 1’36.760, tempo che gli vale la partenza dall’8a fila in griglia. Appuntamento fondamentale domani mattina con il Warm Up alle 08:50 per trovare ancora qualche piccolo miglioramento in vista della gara, in programma sull’ormai familiare tracciato del Misano World Circuit “Marco Simoncelli” alle 12:20.

EMILIA ROMAGNA GP – ONE STEP AWAY FROM Q2

Saturday of improvements for MV Agusta Forward Racing team, which did progresses from Friday’s practice sessions and got very close to the access in Q2. Stefano Manzi went faster since morning’s FP3, even tough he couldn’t succeed the direct access for the battle for the pole. In Q1, then, the rider from Romagna fought hard well but didn’t make it on advancing at the next session: his lap at 1’36.342 stood out the Top 4 for less than 1 tenth of a second. He’ll start from 7th row tomorrow. From the other side of the box, Simone Corsi didn’t rise the grid: with his lap in 1’36.760, he’ll start the race from the 8th row. Will be now fundamental the Warm Up appointment tomorrow morning at 8:50 AM, in order to find any improvement for the race, that will begin at 12:20 PM in the Misano World Circuit “Marco Simoncelli”.

«Today we took several steps forward: we lowered the gap in T3, even if not as much as we would. We still working in order to overtake these difficulties in the third part of the track: the most of the gap comes from that. Tonight we’ll study the data and we’ll look for new solutions. In tomorrow morning’s Warm Up we’ll set up every adjustment possible for a good race».

«We expected a little bit more from this qualifying session. I wasn’t able to take a good lap, with no traffic, so it wasn’t easy to improve. The other riders set good times in Q2 so the gap widened. We took steps forward in the feeling with the bike, instead. A good start will be very important tomorrow to recover some positions as we did last week».

«Tomorrow we’ll start from the 7th and the 8th row on the grid. We hoped to be a little more ahead, for sure; the main problem is the third sector, we still didn’t find a key to understanding there. As always our race pace should be better than our single lap performance: also in FP3 Stefano was able to be very constant. That bodes well for the race. Once again both of riders are called upon to be resolute to fight for a comeback and for a points finish: this will be our target tomorrow».