Rins, Oliveira, Márquez, Stoner and Pedrosa head to Sachsenring

The Motorcycle World Championship lands this weekend at the Sachsenring Circuit for the German Grand Prix, the eighth round of the season, which the riders arrive at eager and fully charged, so plenty of action awaits us this weekend.

For the Repsol men Honda this track brings back good memories, especially for Dani Pedrosa, who secured an important victory at this round last season, so he’s eager to reach this layout on the 26th and try to follow the path of 2011. It won’t be easy, though, as his teammate Casey Stoner is very strong after his victory in Assen, and of course with a Jorge Lorenzo who wants to bounce back from that zero in the last race and will arrive with plenty of determination.

In Moto2 things are going very well for rider Marc Márquez: the 93 is consolidating the lead and arrives with his morale very high after his victory in Assen. On this track he also has good memories, as he has won in the past two seasons, so he knows this German circuit very well.

For the Moto3 boys it will remain a task of adaptation and battling. Both riders are doing excellent work, especially Rins, who is physically hurt, so well done to Oliveira and to the Spanish champion, Rins.

Statements from Dani Pedrosa:

We have gone well at Sachsenring in the past; we’ve achieved some very good results there, and it’s a circuit where I always enjoy riding. Every race is important and we have to keep working to the maximum; our moment will come. We had a good weekend in Assen and we have to repeat it in Germany, and hopefully we’ll get the first win of this year that we’ve been chasing so hard. Sachsenring is a short circuit where tyre performance will once again play a key role, because you spend a long time leaning to the left and the fastest corner is a right-hander. You have to be very precise with the bike’s setup and give everything on Sunday.

Statements from Casey Stoner:

I hope we can achieve another good result at Sachsenring, especially after our complicated but worthwhile weekend in Assen. We were quite competitive there, but in the long corners we struggled a bit more with our bike, so we’ll have to work hard on Friday and Saturday to try to gain more grip from the tyre profile and see if we can reduce the front rebound.

It’s an interesting circuit, perhaps not one of the best on the calendar. It has one of the best downhill right-handers; it’s very impressive, because you come from spending a long time leaning to the left. There’s a great atmosphere, with the spectators so close to the track it feels like a Colosseum. Interesting races always take place at Sachsenring, as we saw last year, so let’s see what the weekend brings us.

Statements from Marc Márquez:

The Sachsenring circuit is a bit peculiar, especially the first part, but I have good memories of it, since I went well last year. We come off a victory and that is always positive, but we must stay calm and try to keep to our working method. The first part of the circuit is very slow, where you need to find a good setup that doesn’t compromise the fast section, which also has harder braking, and that’s where the lap times are really made.

Statements from Miguel Oliveira:

I’m really looking forward to going to Germany, because we have to keep evolving and there’s work ahead that motivates me a lot. Last year in the World Championship I already had the chance to race at Sachsenring, and it’s a circuit I like quite a bit. I know it and I think I’m good there, although logically this year’s bikes are very different from the 125cc. We’ll see how it goes, but what’s certain is that we’re going to work hard to fight the front runners again.

Statements from Álex Rins:

I have also never ridden in Germany and of course I don’t know the circuit very well. From what I’ve seen in videos from other years and in video games, I know it has a slow section at the start with very tight corners, and then it’s much faster, with downhill corners and then a climb we’ll have to reach at speed. What we’ll have to do is what we’ve done at the other circuits that were new to me, which is try to adapt to the track as quickly as possible, because it’s important to find a good race rhythm from Friday.

Source | Repsol Media Service