BASTIANINI AND MARINI MOVE AHEAD IN ITALIAN GRAND PRIX QUALIFYING

Enea Bastianini and Luca Marini will start the Gran Premio d’Italia Oakley in 14th and 17th position respectively after having to go through Q1.

Bastianini made a step forward compared to the free practice and only a tenth of a second didn’t allow him from go to Q2. Marini closed a good lap, but it was not enough to finish in the top two, remaining 4 tenths behind the second classified.

Tomorrow at 14:00 the race of the Gran Premio d’Italia Oakley will start, which will be the sixth of the season.

“This morning, in the third free practice we were fast enough, but then we made life a little bit difficult for ourselves. In the fourth practice we came back from the base of how we started this morning, and we were strong, so I was happy. In qualifying I could have done much better, but unfortunately, I caught another rider on my fastest lap and then I didn’t have time to do another lap. Anyway, we are close, and we will be able to fight. The goal will be to fight for the TOP-5.”

“I’m not happy at all with today’s qualifying, I expected to be faster and be ahead. For sure we were missing something, compared to yesterday we didn’t make many changes to the bike and I was struggling especially with the rear grip. We are studying the data and we are still working to find something for the warm up. For the race I’m still evaluating which tire to use, in FP4 I tried the hard front, but I had some problems. We will probably opt for the M/M tire, although we will have to manage the tires life in long runs.”