Difficult beginning of the season

The overall results are not good enough and some progress has to be made before the next race of the season. The situation with the suspension has to progress for the team to expect better results.

Markus Reiterberger had a good start and was quickly in a good thirteenth position, but he lost a little bit of time in the chicane and finished seventeenth. It was more complicated for Beau Beaton and Randy Pagaud, but both finished the race in twentieth and twenty-fourth positions.

The team knows where the problem is and a solution will be found for the next race in Monza.

Davide Giugliano was the brilliant winner of this first event, in front of Danilo Petrucci, both riding a 1098R Ducati. The pole man Sylvain Barrier finished third.

Michel Garnier (team owner): “We have had problems with the suspension since the beginning of the weekend and we couldn’t expect another result in the race. We need a suspension technician working only for us, not for four different teams. This is the first thing we must solve.”

Markus Reiterberger: “I had a very good start. I was in tenth position and I saw that I could go fast. But when I entered the corners, I could not hold the line. I couldn’t accelerate properly because I wasn’t on the ideal line. The bike was pushing on the outside when I was entering the corners. I tried to go fast, but it was not easy. Next race, I’ll try to make it better.”

Beau Beaton: “It was difficult. We got a really good start. Later in the race, I had a little bit of problem with the settings and the front tyre, so I went back to twentieth. It’s not too bad to finish the weekend.”

Randy Pagaud: “I didn’t have a good start, but I still managed to overtake two riders in the first lap. It was good during the first 6 laps, but then the bike started to move too much when the tyres started to be used. I hope the next race will be better, even if it was a nice experience.”

Race result:

1- Davide Giugliano – Althea Racing – Ducati 1098R

2- Danilo Petrucci – Barni Racing Team – Ducati 1098R – + 0.212
3- Sylvain Barrier – BMW Motorrad Italia – BMW S1000RR – + 5.346
4- Lorenzo Baroni – Althea Racing – Ducati 1098R – + 8.975
5- Bryan Staring – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 10.505
6- Andrea Antonelli – Team Lorini – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 10.568
7- Eddi La Marra – Team Lorini – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 10.591
8- Roy Ten Napel – Domburg Racing – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 11.452
9- Lorenzo Zanetti – BMW Motorrad Italia – BMW S1000RR – + 11.519
10- Niccolò Canepa – GoEleven – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 14.272

17- Markus Reiterberger – Garnier Alpha Racing Team – BMW S1000RR – + 21.990

20- Beau Beaton – Garnier Alpha Racing Team – BMW S1000RR – + 42.613

25- Randy Pagaud – Garnier Alpha Racing Team – BMW S1000RR – + 55.610