Miguel Oliveira couldn’t translate the promising speed into results at the Qatar MotoGP Grand Prix. This Sunday, he finished only 15th in the main race at Losail, also being hampered by a Long Lap penalty that pushed him to the back positions.
The Trackhouse Racing rider stated after the race: ‘It looked like a very promising weekend, we had a good speed on Saturday, and finally we couldn’t make it happen on the race with the long lap. It really penalized us a lot, I had to do the Long Lap early in the race when the group was more compact, and I just lost time and track position. So I had to regain some positions while I was trying to save the tyre. So, many things going on at the same time, it was not easy’.
In a race where he had to recover, Oliveira tried to attack in the final stages, but without much success, closing an unsatisfactory weekend with only one point: ‘I tried to push a lot at the end to try and gain some time when everybody else was struggling, but I couldn’t make it. A point for the effort, but I’m really not happy with how the weekend finished’.