Miguel Oliveira finished the MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas in 11th place, repeating the result of the Sprint race. Thus, he continues with a sequence of points results at the beginning of the season.
After a less than stellar start, the Trackhouse Racing driver made up positions in the standings. However, he fell behind due to an incident in front of him and lost the chance to finish in the top ten, as he explained:
– I was caught up in the fall of [Franco] Morbidelli, going wide to avoid hitting him and his bike. I lost about five seconds on that lap. Then I recovered and had a decent pace, but simply couldn’t get close enough to finish in the top ten.
The Portuguese continued: ‘It’s a shame, because I felt that today we could have had a real top ten result. I was right behind Aleix [Espargaró]. Probably in the end, with him on soft tires and me on medium, maybe I could have attacked him. But it’s just a “what if”. But we will build from here and go to Jerez‘.
Maverick Viñales, from the official Aprilia team, had a strong performance and won this race. But Oliveira doesn’t take more confidence from that, as he mentioned: ‘I would say it’s not because of Maverick, but simply our own feeling, our own direction with the bike is going well. So we just need to focus on that and build from Jerez‘.
