Friday, August 22, 2025
BALATON pARK, Hungary
Balaton Park. Hungary: Track length: 2.532 miles / 4.075 kilometers
Free Practice 1: 10.45am – 11.30am – Dry Track
Air Temperature: 69.8°F / 21°C
Track Temperature: 80.6°F / 27°C
#25 Raul Fernandez
P16 – Best Lap: 1’39.409 – Lap 15 of 20
Top speed: 186.41 mph / 300 km/h
#79 Ai Ogura
P17 – Best Lap: 1’39.581 – Lap 23 of 24
Top speed: 186.41 mph / 300 km/h
Practice: 3pm – 4pm – Dry track
Air Temperature: 78.8°F / 26°C
Track Temperature: 100.4°F / 38°C
#79 Ai Ogura
P16 – Best Lap: 1’38.013 – Lap 24 of 26
Top speed: 188.46 mph / 303.3 km/h
#25 Raul Fernandez
P19 – Best Lap: 1’38.242 – Lap 20 of 25
Top speed: 189.02 mph / 304.2 km/h
AI OGURA
“Today was quite ok for me - there is not much to say and I have nothing to say about my lap time in practice but, how I arrived at that point, I don’t like so much. I’m riding really inconsistently - for one lap time it was not good, but ok, but the overall performance was not great. The track was quite slippery and especially with the medium rear tire I struggled a lot but, after I got the soft, it was better. In general, I don’t really feel the edge grip from the tire and it’s hard to take the corners correctly.”
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RAÚL FERNÁNDEZ
“We are past the middle of the season so, on Friday, especially on a new track that you have to learn first, you use the engine with more kilometers on it. There was nothing serious with our engine, it just had a lot of kilometers on already and then things like this failure in the morning happen. To be honest, I didn’t feel so well with the bike today and I couldn’t do what I want, so it didn’t come naturally and we need to understand this. Today, our pace was OK, but we were bad in the time attack as I couldn’t use the rear tire and couldn’t take advantage of the grip in the first two laps to make a good time attack. After FP1, we changed the bike a little bit, maybe we have to come back to the setup I used before and we have to change some more things. I need to understand it all a lot better because in some parts of the track we are not bad but, in some sectors, we are quite slow, so I need to get a better overall picture.”
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“That was a difficult start to this weekend on a new circuit for several reasons. It’s difficult to come to a brand-new circuit and have the top 17 or 18 within one second, as then a few tenths make a huge difference in terms of positions. We are now analyzing. There’s a lot of things to find out on a new circuit, so we have some work to do. Of course, Q1 tomorrow will be very tough, there are a lot of strong riders that remain in Q1, which also tells how difficult today has been. Of course, we’ll try to work our best today and try to improve our position for tomorrow.”
- DAVIDE BRIVIO, TEAM PRINCIPAL
