Aegerter: double mission accomplished; Krummenacher 21st upon return
The 2013 world championship is over and the Technomag-carXpert team can celebrate: tenth in Valencia, Dominique Aegerter finished fifth in the overall Moto2 classification as a first Suter rider and best Swiss representative in grand prix. After the last test scheduled for Tuesday in Alcarras, Dominique Aegerter will return to Switzerland to undergo an operation on Thursday on his left shoulder that he dislocated in Motegi, in Japan. Randy Krummenacher, who has made his comeback to the racing paddock after a forced break finished 21st.
Dominique Aegerter (10th): " I will sleep better tonight: best Suter and best Swiss rider of the championship, I have reached my objectives that I set for myself at the beginning of the season. This weekend was hard, more from the psychological point of view than physical, even though I was not 100% fit. In the middle of the race I started to feel some discomfort in the right side of my body as I had to compensate for the lack of strength of my left shoulder. This is the first time that I was fighting for an important position in the championship and I managed to control the situation. Until the very last lap I had no information from the team because they did not want to stress me; it wasn't until then that I saw a big "OK" on my pit board and that I understood that the fifth position in the championship was mine. We have achieved this as a team, a new team that has proven its unity since last winter; we all have been working like crazy and it is not by a stroke of luck that I have been 33 times in the points. Now I expect the next couple of weeks to be difficult, I will first have to spend a few days in the hospital and then I won't be able to do anything for two weeks before I can take up my physical preparation for 2014."
Randy Krummenacher (21st): "This was a very difficult race today. Doctors did not think that I was going to last the entire race distance. What was the most difficult was riding in a group, I was not able to do that, in other sessions it was not so difficult. There I really had to reach for my last reserve of energy and to avoid making mistakes I had to ride slowly. But I do not regret my comeback, I felt interesting things the entire weekend. I would also like to thank the whole team that I am leaving tonight. Everyone worked really hard for me this year. I am going to face a new challenge now; and together with my new partners, we decided that I am not going to start testing before I am completely fit for it."
