Red Devils Aprilia’s Jordi Torres was surprised at how hard the Magny-Cours World Superbike track was to learn on his debut today and said it was not like the video games he had used to try and train for the event.
Torres is struggling on the brakes compared to team-mate Leon Haslam but was helped by the British rider after they compared notes in the free practice one debrief.
“Today went well. We did a good job on a rather difficult track. I didn't expect it to be this hard after trying it in the video games. There are a lot of downhill sections that make it hard to hold the line, so you have to play with the gas to keep your trajectory,” said Torres.
“This morning I was struggling to get a clean lap in, but the feeling was getting better lap by lap, thanks in part to the teamwork with Leon who had a great FP1 and helped me out. In the most violent braking sections I'm still not quite fast enough. I can't seem to do it as well as the others. I'll sleep on it tonight and tomorrow I'm sure we'll take another step forward.”
