CARDELÚS SHINES IN MIXED CONDITIONS, DIXON STRONG IN THE WET

2018-11-26 07:34
Ángel Nieto Team riders finish inside the Top 10 on the final day of testing at Jerez
The Moto2 World Championship riders now know what awaits them next season with the new Triumph engine for the series. After three days of testing, the thirty riders who will make up the intermediate class grid had their first experience of the big change made for 2019, and now have the entire winter to prepare for the challenge ahead. Luca Marini, Sam Lowes and Álex Márquez closed the test as the fastest riders. The quickest on Day 3 were Steven Odendaal, Dominique Aegerter and Ángel Nieto Team rider Xavi Cardelús.

Cardelús and teammate Jake Dixon were two of the best performing riders on Sunday, with the Andorran third in the last session of the day, held in mixed conditions. He set a 1:47.551 best lap from his fifteen attempts and felt comfortable on his bike, but will continue working with his team to finetune the setup of his KTM. Dixon topped the timesheets at the Circuito de Jerez - Angel Nieto in the first session, run in the wet. The Briton, who completed fifteen laps today in the morning session, set a time of 1:52.775. One of his targets for 2019 is to repeat his first position in the dry.

3rd Xavi Cardelús 1:47.551 (51 laps): “We leave Jerez happy with the work that we’ve done, and hungry for more. We were competitive, but we still have to finetune the setup in order to give our all. In the afternoon we only put in a few laps because of the rain; it wasn’t really drying out later on. The track was in a delicate state, but I felt comfortable. We tried something that we weren’t able to yesterday, and it helped me.”

10th Jake Dixon 1:52.775 (15 laps): “It was a good day overall. Finishing top in the rain is really good, but the next target will be to go top in the dry. The main thing today was to work on finding a good riding position. We have to improve our corner entry in the dry, because in the wet we have a very good feeling. We’ve had a good test, the team have done a good job and I can’t wait to get back on the bike -although now we will have to wait until 2019.”

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