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Portuguese rider Miguel Oliveira (KTM) will start on Sunday from position 15 on the grid for the Grand Prix of Emilia Romana and Rimini Riviera, the seventh race of the MotoGP season, after this Saturday fallen twice.
Miguel Oliveira made his best lap today in 1.31.841 minutes, having improved by half a second compared to last week’s record at this same circuit, where he competed in the San Marino GP, which earned him 12 at that time. Th place on the grid.
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The Portuguese rider suffered two crashes today during the third free practice session, which classified the top 10 for the second stage of qualifying (Q2), even having to go to the medical center at the Misano circuit, “to avoid any injury”. explained. the communication manager of the Tech3 team, Mathilde Poncharal, to Lusa.
Miguel Oliveira had complaints about his right shoulder, but “after the examinations he did not reveal any injuries, so the pilot is well,” confirmed the same source.
The crashes, at turn 15 of the Italian circuit, prevented the Portuguese driver from improving his record and surpassing 16th place in the session, forcing him to participate in the first stage of qualifying (Q1).
Oliveira came to lead this knockout phase, from which the two fastest in Q2 would qualify, but would end up falling to the final fifth place, which corresponds to 15th position on the starting grid, 764 milliseconds behind the author of the ‘ pole position ‘, the Spanish Maverick Viñales (Yamaha), who beat the Australian Jack Miller (Ducati) and the French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha).
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