Pull&Bear Aspar Team start next year’s preparations at Valencia

2016-11-15 16:08
The 2017 preseason started in earnest for the Pull&Bear Aspar Team at Valencia today, where Álvaro Bautista and Karel Abraham completed their first laps with the team in preparation next season on board the Ducati GP16. Bautista, returning to the team where he won the 125cc World Championship back in 2006, clocked a best lap of 1’31.674, finishing the day in twelfth position, seven tenths off the day’s best, towards the end of his 58 laps of the Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo.

Karel Abraham rediscovered his feeling for a MotoGP bike, spending all day on the Ducati GP14 as he prepares to return to the category he left back in 2015. Tomorrow the Czech rider will mount the Ducati GP15, after today completing 59 laps with a best time of 1’33.231.



Jorge Martínez “Aspar”: “The season is barely over and here we are looking forward to an exciting new project, with new riders Álvaro Bautista and Karel Abraham and new bikes from Ducati. Bautista is adapting, he is happy and his pace is good. He was twelfth fastest, seven tenths off the top, and that is not bad for the first day – we’ve never been so close. This was Abraham’s first day back on a Ducati, on the GP14, and tomorrow he will take a step forward and ride the GP15 that he will campaign in 2017. I am very happy with how the first day went.”

Source: AsparTeam

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