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Franco Morbidelli's leap forward on the GP24 of the Pramac team was there, and this weekend it was shown especially in qualifying, 8th on the grid, and a 4th place in the sprint in a race with many crashes. The first part of the season had started uphill for the Italian-Brazilian rider, but it seems that now the Pramac rider is finding the square of his machine. A race today at the Jerez circuit marked, however, by a mistake at the start, then followed by a contact with Binder's KTM that pushed both riders out of the game, but the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter and brighter and Monday's tests could finally deliver in the Morbido's hands the keys to a more personal setup .
"Too bad, again- intervenes Morbidelli at the end of the race- I made a poor start and suffered a lot of aggressive overtaking losing several positions. So I found myself in a group where I didn't belong. On the positive side there is speed, which we need to develop, maybe with a better qualifying I could have fought for a better position. The speed is there, everything else is missing."
Then the incident with Miller.
"It was an unfortunate, race incident, Jack was doing a different line from mine, I was quite faster but I couldn't pass him because Miller was braking really hard. In that corner I didn' t even want to pass him, but when I got closer I continued on my line and in the end there was contact, too bad."
Did you two clear the air?
"It fits that we were angry, both of us were not shining in the race, when you end up on the ground that kind of attitude can happen."
If you had to make a judgment on your weekend in Jerez?
"There was another step forward as speed and that is positive. We need to be in the right moments of the weekend and still improve the aspects of the bike that we still don't have full control over."
These days you have been working with Pecco's setup, but tomorrow will be testing.
"We will try to find a setup and a base that is mine, but mainly I will grind some kilometers on this bike to really get into it. It will be an important day to get set up in different areas."
Such as?
"The shape shifter is still giving me problems, I still can't activate it in all the laps, I'm missing the automatisms. The Yamaha's 'lowerer' is different, the Ducati's one books and sprenotizes, sometimes I forget to depress it, at the moment it's something I can't figure out."
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