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Miguel Oliveira knows that he would be third in MotoGP with two sixth places in the races in which he fell. That’s why the KTM walked carefully in Misano.
Tenth in MotoGP, with 48 points and 28 from leader Andrea Dovizioso, Miguel Oliveira knows that he would have been in an enviable place if he had not suffered two crashes in the second and fourth of the six races so far, both driven by teammates. . In one he had just finished fifth and suffered a touch from Brad Binder, in the other he had beaten Pol Espargaró in the fight for fourth place, when the Spaniard hit him on the rear wheel.
“This world championship is unpredictable and fun. If in the two races without scoring I had finished sixth, I would be in the first three,” said the KTM Tech3 rider in Misano, where today he will have a test session and, on Friday, the first. training for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
“We have to score points in every race, that’s the key,” Oliveira said. Dovizioso has set an example -the worst result for the Ducati rider is 11th place- and leads the World Championship, with the concern of Espargaró, Oliveira and Binder, who finished together and in that order, being notorious last Sunday, so as not to hinder the race of the other KTM. “We couldn’t attack Pol anymore, we didn’t want to take more risks, we wanted to score points,” he said.
Misano was also the first race without KTM in the top positions, but Almadense believes this was due to the poor result in qualifying. “We have to start from one of the first two rows next Sunday,” says Oliveira, explaining that he lost a lot of time behind Danilo Petrucci and Aleix Espargaró. “The race pace was good, we can follow Ducati and Suzuki,” he added. Today, with the tests, there is a new opportunity to evolve in qualifying times.
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