Aegerter on third row, Mulhauser confirms
Dominique Aegerter will start on Sunday - at 12:20 - from the third row of the starting grid for the Moto2 Grand Prix of Aragon on the circuit of MotorLand in Alcañiz. Aegerter, currently fourth in the provisional overall world championship classification, qualified eight fastest in an extremely tight session where the Top-21 riders were less than one second apart! The second rider of the Technomag-carXpert Team, Robin Mulhauser from Fribourg, who performed really well on Friday, will start from the tenth row of the grid (28th time, less than 1,5 seconds from the pole man). The Swiss rookie has made a big step forward on this track that he has already experienced last year, when he came to stand in for Randy Krummenacher.
Dominique Aegerter (8th): "Grip was better today. But I am still disappointed with my position because my pace is really good. I did many fast laps but none of them was perfect enough to allow me to go 2 tenths of a second faster; all I was missing. That being said, my consistency is a good sign for the race if the track remains dry. If rain comes, as the weather forecast suggests, we will start from the scratch. My objectives are still the same: to get a podium, as many points as possible and to try to stay with Viñales for the third position in the championship bearing in mind that Lüthi is not far behind me."
Robin Mulhauser (28th): "The gap between me and the fastest is very interesting but I am really disappointed to find myself 28th. To be losing only 1,4 seconds on a 5km-long circuit is not bad. But unfortunately my grid position is the same as everywhere else. I did not have the best strategy in qualifying this afternoon: I tried to follow some riders, which had an impact on my consistency. Aragon is the first circuit, where I have already participated in a Grand Prix race and that clearly explains my improved lap times; the increased level of this category is crazy because I was 1,6 second faster today than last year."
