Fabiano Sterlacchini – Technical Director
“During this morning warm-up we had further reduced the gap we had accused yesterday from the best riders. This has gave us good feelings for the today’s race, but unfortunately Mika and Aleix have not had a good lap pace that allowed them to recover positions. Too bad because we had aimed to achieve a good result on this track. It will be very important for us now to continue to work hard since next Friday on Sepang’s track, where we can take advantage by using the technical data that we were able to accumulate during the winter tests ”

Aleix Espargarò – Pramac Racing Team – 14th in the race – 14th in the World Championship
“I’m really disappointed with how things went. It was absolutely the worst weekend of the year, since the first free practice I had handling problems with my bike and unlike other races where I had the possibility to change my pace during the race, in this case I have not been able to fight with my opponents for a better position. I started quite well, maintaining my position, I unfortunately found in front of me some riders who were very slow in the first few laps, this has effectively divided the group into two with a gap of several seconds in the first few laps. I struggled with Aoyama and Barberà to try to gain a better position. Their lap pace, however, was much faster than mine, because I’ve never been able to run under a 1′.49″. Over the last few laps I was also overtaken by Hayden. This result will help us to react in the best way and try to our best next week in the Malaysian Grand Prix. ”

Mika Kallio – Pramac Racing Team – 15th in the race – 17th in the World Championship
“This was a weekend and a race to quickly forget, one of the worst races ever. During the warm up we had partially reduced the gap from the other riders, this has gave us a good feeling for the race, but unfortunately it was not like this. Only in one occasion I was able to turn with a lap time less than 1 ‘.50. That is not a good thing if your direct rivals are turning two seconds faster than you. We will work hard to close the gap that we have accused today so that we can be as much as possible more close to other riders in the next Grand Prix. “

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