CHALLENGING DAY OF QUALIFYING FOR TAKA AT MISANO

Takaaki Nakagami will start from the eighth row of the grid in the San Marino Grand Prix after a tough day of qualifying at Misano. The LCR Honda IDEMITSU rider struggled to find the lap-time he was looking for and couldn’t progress from a super-competitive Q1 session ahead of his team’s home race tomorrow.

Sitting 16th overnight, the Japanese star could only find marginal improvement in FP3 and had to settle for 18th position in the morning session. His race pace looked more promising in FP4 as he took 16th, less than a second off the leading time, but he could not advance from a Ducati-dominated Q1 and finished up in 22nd position overall.