SATURday May 25, 2025
silverstone Circuit, england
Silverstone Circuit, England: Track length: 3.666 miles / 5.9 kilometers
Free Practice 2: 11.10am – 11.40pm – Dry Track
Air Temperature: 62.6°F / 17°C
Track Temperature: 73.4°F / 23°C
#25 Raul FernandezP12 – Best Lap: 2’00.034 – Lap 8 of 12
Top speed: 202.13 mph / 325.3 km/h
#79 Ai Ogura – withdrawn from event
Qualifying 1: 11.50am – 12.05am – Dry track
Air Temperature: 62.6°F / 17°C
Track Temperature: 75.2°F / 24°C
#25 Raul Fernandez - Qualified P16
P6 – Best Lap: 1’58.734 – Lap 3 of 7
Top speed: 203.93 mph / 328.2 km/h
Sprint Race: 4pm – Dry track: 10 Laps – 36.66 miles / 59 kilometers
Air Temperature: 64.4°F / 18°C
Track Temperature: 82.4°F / 28°C
#25 Raul Fernandez – P19 (Race Points: 0 Championship Standing: 18 Total Points: 15)
Race Time: 20’18.386 Best Lap: 2’00.103 – Lap 5 of 10
Average speed: 108.3 mph 174.3 km/h
Top speed: 206.48 mph / 332.3 km/h
#79 Ai Ogura: Following the accident that Ai suffered at turn 2 in Free Practice 1, on Friday, the injury he suffered has been diagnosed as a possible fracture at the top of his right tibia. Prior to Free Practice 2 on Saturday morning, he was declared unfit to ride for the remainder of the Grand Prix of the United Kingdom and has withdrawn from the meeting. He will return immediately to Barcelona for further tests.Trackhouse MotoGP Team will release further news on Ai’s condition in due course and in the meantime, wish him a speedy recovery.
Grand Prix of the United Kingdom - 20 Laps: Sunday – 1pm (Local: GMT +1) 8am (ET) 5am (PT)
RAÚL FERNÁNDEZ
Grid position: P16 – Started on Front: soft – slick tire & Rear: soft – slick tire
Qualified in 6th position, in the first Qualifying session and therefore did not progress to Q2.
Dropped a place to 17th in the first lap.
Promoted back to P16 he then lost three places on Lap 4, crossing the start-finish line in 19th place.
On Lap 5 and Lap 6, improved by a place a lap up to 17th and then dropped back to P19 on Lap 7.
Crossed the finishing stripe in 19th position.
“I think today was exactly the opposite from what we expected. We improved a lot in these kind of fast corners in which we lost a lot of time compared to Marco (Bezzecchi) yesterday. We improved - from this morning, I felt good with the bike but we had some bad luck during the day. First, in Qualifying where I was fighting to get into Q2 in the last two laps I saw yellow flags, but at least we improved. Later, in the Sprint, I touched with Franco (Morbidelli). He was wide and came back and we touched - I’m not sure who’s mistake this is, it was probably just a typical race incident. But I lost my wings on the right side of the bike and I couldn’t brake. With the wind and no wings on one side of the bike it was super difficult. It was the first time I rode like this - very tricky and I couldn’t get any good information for tomorrow. I confirmed the good feeling with the bike, I think we are working well and Marco did an amazing race. We are not on his level right now but, I believe, we are closer than yesterday and if everything is working well tomorrow and we don’t have an incident at the beginning of the race, my target is to fight for the top 10. I think that’s a realistic goal for tomorrow.”
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“We’ve been very unlucky today, but that’s racing. Unfortunately, Raul got hit by another rider in the first lap and the right part of the front wing was broken and then the bike became uncontrollable and unstable in some parts of the track. It was very difficult for him to ride it which, I think, made the race was very hard. Raul tried to finish just to try to pick up some information for tomorrow, but after one lap our race was destroyed. Anyway, these are things that happen in racing and we will try tomorrow again. Unfortunately, Ai couldn’t race. He’s unfit for the rest of the weekend and will go back to Barcelona tomorrow morning and will go under further examination on Monday and then we will discuss with the medical team what we need to do. Hopefully, he will be back for Aragon, but we need a few more days to understand.”
- DAVIDE BRIVIO, TEAM PRINCIPAL
