Miguel Oliveira finished the MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas in 11th place, repeating the result of the Sprint race. Thus, he continues the streak of points results at the beginning of the season.
After a less than ideal start, the Trackhouse Racing driver recovered in the standings. However, he was delayed by an incident in front of him and lost the chance to finish in the top ten, as he explained:
– I got 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 reasonable pace, but I just 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 draw 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’.
