Raul Fernandez focused on extracting more potential from the soft tyre – Motorcycle Sports

Raul Fernandez was conditioned by an arm pump problem on the MotoGP test day at Jerez last monday. However, he did not fail to focus on what he sees as a particularly significant shortcoming at the moment – the qualifying lap on the soft tyres.
The spaniard from CryptoDATA RNF MotoGP told the press: 'We worked just to try to see what I have to do to extract the maximum potential with the soft tyre – that's our job now, because I think the pace was more or less good, 1m37, 9s, 1m38.0s more or less. It’s not too bad, but when I’m on the soft tire it’s really hard to take a second off like everyone does'.
In a highly balanced peloton where overtaking is difficult, Fernandez stressed the importance of starting in a good position: 'Now it’s very important to understand why I can’t take off, because starting from the back you can’t do many things; if you want to win the race on the first lap you will do something stupid. It's something we have to work on; It is true that we have improved a lot, but we need to keep working'.

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