Valencia: QMMF Racing Team riders Nasser Al Malki and Saeed Al Sulaiti made significant progress at the 2012 Spanish Championship in Valencia, yesterday.
Both riders who followed Anthony West’s advice, have improved their times, dropping some tenths in every lap.
In the second session the rides recorded the 18th and 24th position of the grid for the race. But the race will be a challenge with the weather conditions unknown.
Al Malki, who is in 18th position, with a time of 1min 40.793 seconds said: “Last year here it wasn’t a good experience because of the weather. This year I could try the dry conditions and I get a better feeling. This is the last round in the Spanish Championship and, I am happy because I had learned a lot and it is good for the next year.”
Al Malki believes he can go better.
He said: “I think I can go faster I do my best but I know I can do it better.”
He added: “I have to thanks West because today (yesterday) he helped me to change a little bit my style with this bike, because I didn’t get the feeling with this bike. Today (yesterday) we had done too much changes and know I feel better I can push more. I want to thanks my team, my sponsor QMMF, for giving me the chance to improve my riding style.” Al Malki’s team-mate, Al Sulaiti is in 24th position, having recorded a time of 1min 41.913 seconds was satisfied with the qualifying.
He said: “Today (yesterday) in the first qualifying I did 1 min, 42.102 seconds and it was faster than my best lap yesterday and also in the last testing.”
He added: “I think I dropped one second in the first qualifying and, in the second qualifying I tried to fix some problems and change some body positions, in order to go faster in some corners where I had problems.”
After giving some thoughts on how to rectify the problems, Al Sulaiti was happy. He said: “I have been thinking about it and, in the second qualifying I did my best to fix it. Then I did a 1:41.9 and I’m very happy with the results, although in some turns when I was very focused I found some traffic and I lost time.”
He added: “Despite of that, I need to go even faster to fight with other riders.”
The rider also thanked his team and West for the advice.
He said: “I want to thanks my team for the hard work and the setting that they achieved, also thanks to Anthony for his coaching. Having such a good rider teaching me, helps me a lot.”
Australian rider West, who recently claimed two back-to-back podiums in Moto2, has seen improvement from Al Sualiti.
He said: “For sure the results could be better, but looking at the riding not to the lap time or the position.”
He added: “Al Sulaiti has improved a lot from the first time I saw it until now, his movements in the bike is a hundred percent better than what it was, so he has improve a lot but he must look to close the gap with the front. When you are looking him at the track you think he is a fast rider.”
Speaking of Al Malki, he said: “Nasser, I think that the last qualifying was better and he has to learn that it is what he should do every time he is on the bike. He has to understand the bike quicker in order to get a better set up, a few changes will make the bike better.”
He added: “Both of them are going in good direction, they have improved too much this year.”
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