After starting from pole position, Luca Marini finished the Qatar MotoGP Sprint race in third place. The Mooney VR46 Racing Team rider couldn’t hold off Jorge Martín (Prima Pramac/Ducati) and Fabio Di Giannantonio (Gresini/Ducati).
In the flash interview with the official broadcast, the Italian rider expressed his sactisfation with the result, but admitted that he was lacking some race pace: ‘It’s great. I told you after the qualifying that I knew I was missing some tenths on the race pace and in fact this is what happened during the race. I tried to push a lot in the beginning, I tried to put a gap and fight with all the other riders for not let them go, but they were faster than me today, so I was just trying to manage to achieve this podium because it’s a fantastic result’.
Ahead of Sunday’s race, Marini explained he had some troubles with the rear tyre and he needs to figure out what happened: ‘Let’s keep pushing like this, we need to find something for tomorrow’s race because today with the grip of the rear tyre I was struggling too much. I didn’t expect, sincerely, because the hard rear during the practice was better every lap, but today it was a disaster from the lap four until the end. So we need to understand why. Everytime when there is low grip on the ground Jorge is riding very well. He has a good set-up for this kind of conditions and congratulations to him because he is doing an amazing weekend’.