Last year’s winner at the Thai GP, Miguel Oliveira admitted the good memories he has going into this MotoGP weekend in Chang, although he warned that the track wasn’t the most suitable for the Aprilia. The Portuguese rider also spoke about the weather forecasts, which point to the likelihood of rain on all three days of the race.
Reflecting on the weekend ahead, the CryptoDATA RNF MotoGP rider began by recalling last year, with a note regarding now Aprilia: ‘Not a bad track. Nah, I have good memories. The track itself was not really relevant. I think the result from last year it’s very particular and hopefully if it’s the same weekend we can repeat but, honestly looking at the performance last year with the bike looks like it’s not the most easy track for our bike but we will try to, with the experience the guys have from last year, we will try to do the best weekend this weekend’.
Asked if having more time on the bike in wet conditions at the last GP helped him feel better, the #88 replied: ‘On those ten minutes I really didn’t felt great. It was very cold and, anyway it was a strange Warm Up, but I don’t expect, after what I have done in Motegi, that I would lack a lot of feeling with the bike on the wet. Let’s see. Everytime you ride on the wet it is a different experience, even sometimes every lap, so I can’t tell for sure how the outcome is going to be’.
Miguel Oliveira, it should be remembered, won last year in Thailand – then with KTM – after beating the Ducati Lenovo duo, with Jack Miller second and Pecco Bagnaia third.