From Cardion AB

Grand Prix of La comunidad Valenciana:
Fifth row for Czech MotoGP rider Karel Abraham

Czech MotoGP rider Karel Abraham finished thirteenth in today´s qualifying practice to Grand Prix of La comunidad Valenciana at Ricardo Tormo Circuit. Abraham will start from 5th row to the race. Karel did his best lap time 1:33,442 with 2,598 seconds gap to the fastest Dani Pedrosa.

Karel Abraham
“We expected better result after successful Friday practice session. I can´t say anything bad about the bike, we hadn´t any unexpected problem – except the usual with rear tyre grip. I know where I am slower and I´ll try to stay focused on them tomorrow. Saturday turned sunny, but we don´t know what to expect on Sunday – it has to rain probably.“

Marco Grana, Cardion AB Motoracing chief mechanic
"Today morning session was very difficult because of half and half conditions. Afternoon qualifying was the first session on dry and we expected to be on top after Friday. Unfortunately we had some problem with rear grip which limited us. Positive is that ideal time composed of best sector times is 0,4 second faster than our qualifying time. It´s good starting point for Sunday. We will try to change setup to find the rear grip and we must hope that the track will be dry like this afternoon. I think that we can find good way for bike and to be faster.”