LÓPEZ CLOSES DUTCH QUALIFYING ONE TENTH FROM THE POLE. ALDEGUER STOPS IN Q1

The MB Conveyors team has closed the Dutch TT qualifying with the fifth place of Alonso López and the twentieth of Fermín Aldeguer, respectively taking the second and seventh row of the starting grid of the TT Assen circuit.

López, together with his staff, completed yesterday’s excellent work by closing the three free practices with the tenth time in 1’37.508 (+0.393) which he scored in the FP3 in the morning, thus obtaining direct access to Q2 . In the fifteen minutes available, the Spanish rider opted for two time attacks. Lopez started strong from the first laps on track and then stopped in the pit lane for the rear tire change. In the second time attack Alonso managed to hit the target with an excellent 1’36.842 at the end of the QP with which he took the fifth position and the second row just +0.106 from pole.

A more complicated day for Fermín who improved his lap time in the last free practice of the morning but was forced to face Q1 by just 0.007. At the start of qualifying a problem with the bike forced Aldeguer to return to the pits for a few seconds. Once back on track, after three laps he set his best time in 1’37.389 which, however, was not enough for the passage to final qualifying, finishing in twentieth position on the Dutch Saturday.

ALONSO LÓPEZ #21: 5^th in 1’36.842

“I am very happy with this qualifying, the best to date in this category! Tomorrow we will try to make a great start and if the race is dry, we will give 100% lap after lap. Thanks very much to my team and all the people who are supporting me, mañana más y mejor!”.

FERMÍN ALDEGUER #54: 20^th in 1’37.389

“Obviously I’m not happy with today’s result. We had some bad luck in Q1 when the bike stopped at the start of qualifying. The tire cooled down and passing through the service road it got a little damaged, so when I got back on track I had to drive more calmly and when I started to run harder the tire was already 2/3 laps and so it was difficult to score a good time. In any case, we have a good pace and therefore we will use tomorrow’s warm up to better prepare our comeback!”.