CEV: Aragon Qualifying

For Brad Ray, this CEV round at the Spanish Motorland circuit in Aragon has so far, had very mixed fortunes. The weather for both days has been dry but very windy making riding conditions very tricky at times. Both of Friday's practice sessions were difficult, 12 laps spent running in a spare motor and any following laps hampered by an intermittent ignition problem, finally located to a faulty "crash sensor" in session one and then a suspected cam chain failure on the first lap of the second session. Certainly not a good day at the office.

Saturday's official qualifying sessions saw the motor he used at the previous round back in the bike. These would be his first "all out" sessions of the weekend and the Aragon circuit is not forgiving of lack of practice and this was certainly brought home with Brad in 24th place in Q1 and, despite going quicker in Q2, it drops him to 26th on the grid for the race. he will have to be get the best start possible and go for it tomorrow to be able to keep scoring the points.

"The bike is running fine, I just have to get myself into gear. I'm not used to being that far down and struggling" he commented on the situation.

We have to look forward to see if he can pull something out of the bag for the race.