Monday, August 18, 2008

De Puniet out of luck on Czech date

After Saturday´s good qualifying session result in the wet, LCR Honda racer Randy De Puniet ended up out of the points at Brno.

Randy de Puniet in the Honda LCR team garage

Randy de Puniet made a good start from seventh place on the grid in the 22-lap race at Brno on Sunday but crashed out on lap six. Luckily the Frenchman aboard the Michelin-shod LCR Honda RC212V escaped unhurt from the incident and rejoined the twelfth round of the season, ending up sixteenth.

Randy de Puniet - sixteenth

`Honestly I am very angry. I made a good start but could not race as I would like because struggled a lot for front-end feel. Many riders passed me in the corner entry and in the first laps I lost the front a few times. So I decided to slow down but the feeling with the front was very bad. When I tried to pass Pedrosa in the chicane I crashed out in the gravel but rejoined the race. I suffered the same crash of Friday afternoon and, although my crew worked hard to find a solution, we did not solve the problem with the front tyre. I want to forget this bad weekend.´

source motoGP.com

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