The Portuguese rider of the Red Bull KTM Tech3 team starts tomorrow race from the eighteenth position, after a qualifying day marked by adverse weather conditions.
Due to the weather conditions on the Circuit of the Americas this Saturday, all free practice sessions 3 were canceled. Like other riders in the premier class, Miguel Oliveira only left for the track to perform the fourth and last practice session, which was based on mixed conditions. At the beginning of the session, the track was still a bit wet and the Portuguese rider even integrated for a few minutes the top 5 of the session. Miguel Oliveira ended up finishing the FP4 in 15th place.
The Almada rider finished the day in the eighth position of Q1, making a brilliant qualifying start by taking the first position of the table for some moments.
"Today was a difficult day due to the weather. It turned out to be very good to get the session dry. We started the FP4 with mixed conditions, with the track still a bit wet, but then it finally dried. Today we were able to confirm some changes to the bike we made yesterday, so we will do our best for tomorrow at the Warm-up to have a good pace and prepare the race as well as possible. We were a bit out of our goal, but tomorrow will be a long and very physical race and therefore we will do our best as always to continue within what is our goal." Miguel Oliveira
The race for the third round of the 2019 MotoGP season is scheduled to start tomorrow, Sunday, at 8pm in Portugal.
Results Score:
1. M. Marquez (Honda) 2'03,787
2. V. Rossi (Yamaha) 2'04,060 +0.273
3. C. Crutchlow (Honda) 2'04.147 +0.360
4. J. Miller (Ducati) 2'04,416 +0.629
5. P. Espargaro (KTM) 2'04,472 +0.685
18. M. Oliveira (KTM) 2'06.543 +2.756
