With just a day to get back into Euro time after his successful rides in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies in America a slightly jet lagged Brad was on the plane to Barcelona for Round 1 of the CEV at the Montmelo “Circuit de Catalunya”. Arriving late in the day it was straight to the hotel and bed then up early to get to the circuit for the pre-event practice sessions. In dry sunny conditions the 2 sessions went well but with no official timing there was not much to relate to but the Larresport Team he is riding with seemed pleased. That was also the end of the dry and sunny conditions with Saturday and Sunday being almost non stop rain, so much for Sunny Spain.
With 55 Moto3 entries the practice and 2 qualifying sessions were split into 2 groups. Despite struggling to find rear end grip, Brad finished in 7th position in the faster of the 2 sessions which meant that, when the applied the 1-1, 2-2, 3-3 etc rule used in the CEV for split sessions, he was 13th on the grid.
The lack of grip problem really showed in the 2 races on the Sunday with over half the field falling in each race. Hampered by poor starts Brad lost contact with the front runners each time and had to work his way back through (from 21st at the end of lap one in the second race!!) and finally ended up with a 7th and a 9th in the races giving him joint 6th place in the Championship with 8 more races to go during the season.
This Thursday it’s yet again onto a plane for the trip down to Jerez de la Frontera for the second round of the Rookies at the Spanish Grand Prix for races 3 and 4 in the series. Let’s hope for another great result there.
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