9th place for Edwards in Spain
Rollover to zoom
Click main image to enlarge
01/01/1970
The Gran Premi de Catalunya comes to an end with NGM Mobile Forward Racing rider Colin Edwards in the points.
The American rider has exceeded his expectations and has not only finishing in the points for the third race in a row, he has also finished in the Top10, 2nd best CRT and best FTR-Kawasaki today at Montmelo. Edwards feels he has a good FTR – Kawasaki package to move forward with.
Colin Edwards: “Got a good start. No real big changes since yesterday on the bike, pretty happy with the package. In the first couple of laps it seemed like guys were crashing, losing the front, dust clouds here and there but my bike was working good. Once I kind of got clear track and saw Espargaro in front of me, like normal I put my head down and push as hard as I could. Felt like I was catching him a little bit, he pulled me, I catch him, he pulled me and we kind of had this accordion thing going on for half of the race. At the end I saw Aleix and just kind of trying to stay with it and lost some rear contact, the grip got so greasy that you go in and it was coming around going in. My options were to push and go into the gravel and maybe catch him or survive and bring the thing home. I saw on the board that we were in the Top10 and I thought that getting into the Top10 for the team after a difficult start of the season would be good. Thanks to the team, they have done a great job and thanks to the electronics, they really came through and we got a good package to move forward with.”
Sergio Verbena: “This has been a great day for our team, finally both riders have finished the race in the points. Colin has done a fantastic race and has finished in 9th place, the best result of the team in MotoGP. Best FTR - Kawasaki and second best CRT. Only Espargaro was the only other CRT in front of us: both him and Colin had t he same pace and were close for most of the race, only in the last few laps Colin decided not to take an unnecessary risk. Claudio has done a great job today and finished in the points. We have progressed a lot, at the beginning of the season we had some difficulties because the bike was new and we had to go through the learning process and development of the bike. Thanks to FTR, Akira Technologies and 2D for thesupport they give us at every race. It feels like we are on the right path and we need to keep working. The goal is to be among the best CRTs and reduce the gap with the MotoGPs.”
