LIGHTECH SPEED UP
QUALIFYING: NINTH AND TENTH ROW FOR NAVARRO AND MONTELLA IN THE GRAND PRIX OF STYRIA
LighTech Speed Up riders Jorge Navarro and Yari Montella finished the Grand Prix of Styria qualifying in p25 and p30.
Not the best Saturday for riders and teams in which they were unable to find the setting of their bikes and therefore to get in the Q2.
In the last free practice sessions, both Navarro and Montella did not qualify in the top 14, thus losing the possibility of having direct access to Q2. Only Montella improved his time on Friday in 1’29.916, but it was not enough and, together with Jorge, he faced Q1.
Several changes were carried out by both teams to understand how to solve the difficulties but the progress achieved did not lead to a good qualifying finishing with ninth and tenth rows for team9 and team5.
JORGE NAVARRO #9: 25th in 1’29.785
“It’s a complicated weekend. We are barking up the wrong tree and certainly the two crashes did not help us to improve the feeling. Either way, we need to look ahead and try to make the most of every situation, be it positive or negative. I hope we need these data to face a good race tomorrow or next week”.
YARI MONTELLA #5: 30th in 1’30.354
“I am not happy with today because we couldn’t find a solution to our problems. This morning the FP3 did not go as we had hoped due also to a crash in the middle of the test and in qualifying unfortunately, they cancelled the only good lap we had done, thus ending up at the end of the standings. Tomorrow will be a long race but we will try to gain as many positions as possible from the start. We will use the warm up to try some changes that we hope will give us more confidence in driving”.
