It showed just how wet it was out on track, he was more or less completely upright and it flicked him! Only a few riders were game to go out and looked like they weren’t game to go too hard in the conditions. De Angelis was then next down and in the same way as the Yamaha rider, bolt upright and pitched straight over the top!
Me and pretty much everyone else stayed in the box as I could see no point in risking it, we weren’t going to learn anything and it couldn’t possibly be any wetter than this for the following day.
With 5 minutes left to go in the session, Westy went out and set the fastest time of the 5 riders that were out on track giving him provisional pole which was quite funny! I still think we made the right decision not to go out, nothing could be proven in those conditions and there was a high risk of crashing which wouldn’t be worth it.
On Saturday morning the weather was again very grey in the morning and looked like it would be another wet day. When we left the hotel it wasn’t raining but the ground was wet from the rain that had fallen over night.
The weather stayed fine all throughout the 125 and
MotoGP free practice session that went before us so there was a reasonable dry line by the time we went out. The bike again felt good. About midway through the session the circuit was 50% wet and 50% dry making it tricky choosing what tyres. We stayed on wets just to be safe and so did most others.
I reeled off about 5 laps getting faster and faster each lap. I went from 15th to 11th to 6th and then to 2nd with just Guintoli ahead. It was now at that point where it was too dry for wets and too wet for full slicks. We waited about 10 minutes, in which time the circuit dried quite a bit, so it was now full slicks and then went back out for the final 10 minutes.
