Cardion AB

Karel Abraham speeded up last day during the three-day MotoGP testing in Malaysian´s circuit Sepang. Overall he took nineteenth place today. Meanwhile the first day when Cardion AB Motoracing rider finished with time 2:05,838, Thursday´s testing were ended up with time 2:04,066, with three and half seconds gap to the fastest Dani Pedrosa. In CRT bikes evaluation Karel Abraham reached fourth fastest time, just after De Puniet, Barbera and Espargaro. Last MotoGP pre-season test will run from 23 March in Jerez, Spain.

Karel Abraham

"I´m happy that we finally managed to accelerate, but not so to fulfill the target we determined – to get under two minutes and four seconds. I am really upset with that, because otherwise it was good today. We´ve got a little problem with tires, which were out quickly, so we changed them every fifteen laps and unfortunately in the moment when we were at the top time on the track, we had no more new tires. Than we rode for few more laps on soft, but I didn´t upgrade the time. Of course is not good that I am loosing on De Puniet and Espargaro, but on other site, there´s only Colin Edwards close to me, other riders have greater distance. Next week the Motosalon fair in Prague – Leťnany awaits me, after that we will prepare for the last pre-season test in Jerez."

Marco Grana, chief-mechanic Cardion AB Motoracing

"The good news is that we´ve improved at the end of the test. Karel was a bit better on brakes today, which was our main problem, but we are still half second slower than we wanted to be. Espargaro and De Puniet are not so far, we are faster day to day. Today we used all tires we have. Finally we chose – like the best combination - the hard front and soft rear. Mainly the new Bridgestone soft is good and we´re also satisfied with the bike settings. We compared data with the Aspar team and we know we´re losing on brakes. I hope Karel will try to push and we will be ready for the last test in Jerez."