After yesterday’s fifth place Miguel Oliveira ended today’s Sprint race early in Aragão due to a fall on the first lap and explained what happened, with the fact that the bike was a little heavier and because it failed, by ‘half centimeter’ the curve.
The Portuguese spoke about his race to the press shortly after it ended and was happy that there would be no race next week:
– Yes, I’m fine physically, mentally I don’t know. Luckily we don’t have a race next weekend. It was a strange weekend overall because we didn’t have perfect track conditions at any point and we just tried to make the best of each circumstance.
After a start that looked promising, it was a terrible way to say goodbye to the Spanish circuit, as he explained what happened to crash: ‘The opening lap was unfortunate. I recovered some positions and then I went half a centimeter wide at the corner entry and with all the fuel and everything the bike was heavy and fell underneath me. It was a pity to end the weekend like this, I knew we weren’t the fastest but at least we could score some good points today. It’s a shame and it’s going to take a while to digest not being there but it is what it is’.
Asked if the track was in a worse condition than yesterday, despite not having ridden much, he gave his opinion: ‘The track was in line with what we suffered in FP1, I would say. I think so [worse than on Saturday] but I can’t say much because I did the sighting lap’.
