Both comeback from their respective starting positions, Aleix And Maverick they took their RS-GPs to the top ten but with two races with quite different histories.
Aleix got off to a good start from the eleventh spot in the fourth row and, with the overtaking on Morbidelli and Marini and thanks to some crashes of those in front of him, he climbed up to fifth place. But there he had to start defending his position due to poor rear grip and therefore little traction. In the end he managed to take home the seventh place which represents yet another good result of a positive season which, two races from the end, sees him eighth in the world rankings.
The Viñales race, on the other hand, was a constant comeback from the nineteenth starting square. Maverick struggled having to overtake in the middle of the group in the first part of the race but as soon as he was able to ride freely, and especially in the final, he set extremely interesting times that brought him to the top ten, for the first time with Aprilia, right behind the teammate.
The affectionate thoughts of the riders and the whole Aprilia Racing family go to Lorenzo Savadori who, after breaking his right collarbone in the crash in practice, was operated on Saturday evening, in Modena, by the team of Professor Porcellini and Doctor Catani . The intervention went smoothly and now the goal is to recover Lorenzo in view of the Jerez tests in mid-November.
Aleix Espargarò: “I am quite satisfied with the points earned today, especially as my pace wasn’t great. Unfortunately, I didn’t feel good grip from the rear tire and I struggled a lot throughout the race. In light of the complications of this weekend, it is still important to leave Misano with a solid performance, in the championship we are not far from the top-7 and we will try until the last race“.
Maverick Vinales: “I’m happy because before the race we made a big change to the balance of the bike, it was a risk but our goal is to try to get to know this bike better. It worked great, I had a good pace from the first laps and only having to recover from a bad starting position prevented me from fighting for an even more important result. I am very confident after what has been shown today, step by step we are amalgamating the rider-team-bike package and this is fundamental“.
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