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QMMF Racing Team rider Anthony West, despite a strong first free practice session, was slowed by unexpected engine problems in the second session. The 31-year-old Australian climbed up to twelfth position in the first free practice session on Friday morning, but dropped back to 23rd in the second session, which put him into 15th place in the combined standings. |
His suspicion of a lack of speed was confirmed in the topspeed list, where West was down in 17th place with 275.7 kph in the morning and in 22nd place with 276.2 kph in the afternoon, which was about 6 kph slower than the fastest riders on the track.
“We didn’t have a bad start this morning, I was twelfth with a gap of just 1.2 seconds to the leader and I was convinced that we had a base to start and to improve from. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as we hoped in the afternoon,” West said.
“There were quite a number of riders that struggled with the higher track and air temperatures and I was one of them. But it was not only the conditions that slowed me. I’m convinced that there is a problem with the engine, something we seem to get all the time when there is an engine change. This engine now seems to vibrate everywhere on the track. We are trying to analyse the problem and to come up with a solution for tomorrow.”
Young teammate Rafid Topan Sucipto, on the other hand, had a difficult start with a crash in the morning, an incident from which the Indonesian teenager bounced back to go more than a second faster in the afternoon. He finished the practice sessions in 34th position with a time of 1:52.526.
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