Britain’s Scott Redding is puzzled over his pace in qualifying at the Mugello MotoGP round after a good showing saw him slimb up the order in the final free practice session only for the Marc VDS man to end up in 17th on the grid.
Redding believes he will move forward quickly in tomorrow’s race as his pace over a distance is better but he still needs to find a solution to the three-lap dash that is qualifying.
“I don’t know what to say because I went faster with the old tyre than I did on the new tyre and I don’t know why. There was quite a lot of traffic with everyone waiting and that’s really frustrating,” said the Gloucestershire rider.
“Because we don’t have the soft tyre we have to push for the whole lap. The tyre didn’t work as well as I was expecting but even on my last lap, when I was on for a personal best in the first two sectors, Hernandez pulled off the track at the last corner when I was outside him and I nearly hit the back of him. It’s frustrating to be where we are because I was faster on old tyres earlier.
“You feel like you make steps forward and then you get pushed back again. The race will be different because it’s longer and our race pace isn’t bad but our one lap pace is still a weakness for us at the moment.”
