Team HRC focuses on race setup ahead of the final races of the season at Jerez

“We started the day positively, to be honest. Even though we had to iron out a few small details with the setup, particularly in terms of the electronics and general base setup, I felt good and consistently fast, riding mostly on my own. I was able to finish the session a promising P5, not far from the top in terms of lap times. Unfortunately, we can't say the same about FP2. We wanted to try something different with the setup to see if it would give us an extra boost, but we couldn’t find a good feeling. One of the reasons might be the fact that some tyres we had today were pre-heated. While the first set worked fairly well this morning, in the afternoon the feeling was much worse, no matter what changes we tried. We decided to revert to the morning’s settings, but again, there was no feeling. It’s a shame that we couldn’t properly test what we had planned but I’m fairly sure that, without these issues, we could have performed better. We’ll see in tomorrow morning’s FP3.”

“A demanding first day here at Jerez. As we expected, everyone is super fast. FP1 was more difficult; the feeling at the beginning wasn’t great, but we worked hard to prepare for the afternoon, and the feeling immediately improved. We were able to get up to pace on used tyres, but when we put in the new set, we couldn’t exploit them and were unable to improve further. This makes it a bit tricky to make decisions for tomorrow because while the feeling is not bad, the performance just isn’t there. But it’s happened before that when we switch to fresh, non-pre-heated tyres, the feeling improves, so now we’ll sit down, check the data carefully, and try to move in the right direction with the setup for tomorrow.”