QUALIFYING: LÓPEZ ONE STEP AWAY FROM THE POLE, ALDEGUER TWELFTH
Alonso López and Fermín Aldeguer will start tomorrow respectively from the first and fourth row of the starting grid of the Austrian Grand Prix.
During FP3 the number 21 of the CAG SpeedUp team focused on the race pace After some tests on the set-up and with the eleventh time in the combined free practice times he obtained direct access to Q2. In qualifying, fast from the start, López took the front row for his first time, finishing second place in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix with an excellent time of 1’33.981.
Aldeguer saved his Saturday after the crash that compromised FP3 and therefore direct access to Q2. Sixteenth in the combined free practice standings in 1’34.582 (+0.566), Fermín then finished Q1 with the third fastest time in 1’34.523, thus moving on to final qualifying. In the fifteen minutes available, the number 54 improved his lap time once again, finishing qualifying in fourth row in p12 with the chrono 1’34.421 just +0.488 from the pole.
ALONSO LÓPEZ #21: 2nd in 1’33.981
“Obviously, I’m very happy with today’s qualifying, I really didn’t expect to finish second. In the end I managed to do a good lap and finish in the front row. I feel good even though we have to fix a couple of things for tomorrow but we are prepared to have a great race tomorrow!”.
FERMÍN ALDEGUER #54: 12th in 1’34.421
“Slowly the sensations are changing for the better. A crash this morning while we were fast made us lose our pace and we moved on to Q1. The goal was to move to Q2 and luckily we made it with a good time. Then in Q2 the sensations were not entirely optimal but we did everything possible to conclude them well. In the end we start twelfth tomorrow and with a good enough pace that we will try to improve during the warm up”.
Data: 20 Marzo
Località: Lombok
Circuito: Mandalika International Street Circuit
Lunghezza: 4,301 m
Curve: 17
