We continued chasing the chassis in the afternoon and again it was going to be difficult to go faster because the wind was still there. Nothing was making much difference to the handling of the bike and I did a 1.46.3, one person went faster and as a result I got pushed back to 19th on the grid.
That evening I looked on the telemetry and compared the data from my best lap in qualifying and my best lap in the test of a 1.45.4. I could see that the first half of the circuit I was just as quick if not a little bit quicker than I was at the test, but as soon as I got to the corners that I was complaining about you could visibly see by the telemetry graph the difference in speed.
For Sunday we tried something slightly different for warm-up which again didn’t make much difference to the bike. For the race we made a bit of a gamble with the set-up as we were a bit lost and hoped for the best.
My start was a pretty good one. I got away just behind Giansanti and Jenkner and started to lose touch with them after about 5 laps. I was losing time just where I was still struggling with the chassis and was involved in a race long scrap with the two Czech guys, Jakub Smrz and Radomil Rous. The conditions were very windy and as a result a few riders went down.
With about 10 laps to go I decided to follow Smrz for a few laps and just suss out where I was faster than he was ready for the last lap. I led at the start of the final lap until the double-right stadium section five corners from the flag.
At the double right Rous dived up the inside of me and pushed us both wide which let Smrz back up the inside of us. I got on the gas earlier than normal just to make sure that Rous stayed behind me so I still could stay in touch with Smrz and make a pass in the last four corners.
