{"id":3891,"date":"2024-09-06T18:01:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grtracingteam.com\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2024-09-06T18:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:01:25","slug":"venerdi-impegnativo-a-magny-cours-per-gardner-debutto-sulla-yamaha-r1-per-delbianco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grtracingteam.com\/en\/venerdi-impegnativo-a-magny-cours-per-gardner-debutto-sulla-yamaha-r1-per-delbianco\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Friday in Magny-Cours for Gardner as Delbianco Makes his Debut on the Yamaha R1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remy Gardner and Alessandro Delbianco completed their Friday at the Circuit de Nevers, Magny-Cours, 12th and 21st on combined times with Delbianco making his debut on the Yamaha R1 in the World Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gardner faced a challenging Free Practice 1, producing laps with the same set of tyres throughout the 45-minute session, prioritising race distance. The Aussie rider finished the session 15th with a time of 1\u201938.258. On the other side of the garage, Delbianco got to experience the R1 WorldSBK for the first time, gaining confidence each lap to cross the line 22nd (1\u201940.067).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon\u2019s session, the story was the same for Gardner and his crew. The 26-year old focused on long runs assessing the different option race tyres, still making a consistent improvement to his lap time to finish 12th (1\u201936.994). Delbianco\u2019s feeling got better and better throughout the session, managing to improve his FP1 lap time by a remarkable 2.056s to cross the line 21st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remy Gardner: P12 (1\u201936.994)
<\/strong>\u201cNot the easiest day, but we knew it could have been a challenging one as we faced a tricky weekend last year here. I\u2019m happy overall with the progress we made, although the final position is not fantastic and surely not where we want to be. Weather could also play a key role tomorrow as we might have a wet race, let\u2019s see. Anyway, I\u2019m confident we could make another step forward on the dry, so let\u2019s stay positive for Saturday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alessandro Delbianco: P21 (1\u201938.011)
<\/strong>\u201cWhat a day! It was as good as I was expecting. The team did a fantastic job and all the guys worked really hard to make me feel comfortable on the bike in the best way possible. We made a great step from the morning and I\u2019m confident we\u2019ll be able to improve further more, hoping to have another sunny day tomorrow. I cannot wait to be back on track and to race!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n