Miguel Oliveira placed his Aprilia RS-GP in the front row for the first time last weekend after doing an incredible third fastest lap in Qualifying. In the Sprint Race, he managed to bring it home in sixth although he was struggling a bit to keep his strong pace. Likewise, the Sunday race, he managed to ride around some issues and eventually crossed the line in a great fifth, which gives the Portuguese and his CryptoDATA RNF MotoGP Crew a big boost of motivation for this weekend.
The weekend starts as usual with Free Practice one at 10:45 local time this Friday, followed by the timed Practice session at 15:00 local time the same day, that determines the Qualifying one and two entries. The Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli will also be the host of a one day test the Monday after the race weekend before the entire MotoGP paddock takes off to Far East.
“For Misano we have a good motivation going into the race weekend. We know the challenge is different to Barcelona as the Misano World Circuit is a completely different track, obviously. But I’m coming in open minded and very confident.”