Salom still aiming to improve, but happy to be back on track

Luis Salom had better things to do than having a four weeks summer break. The Spanish rider for RW Racing GP could hardly wait for the Czeck Grand Prix on the fast and winding Brno circuit.

Instead of being lazy on the beach Salom prefered a decent preparation for the second half of the season. He spend the past few weeks training on a kart track and a motocross bike. Besides that he had himself a new, two kilo lighter racing suit.

Therefore Salom, who turned 20 last weekend, was not at all amused by only the twelfth time on the first day, in the morning as well as in the afternoon session. “In general everything is working fine. The time is not that bad, but twelfth is not what makes me happy. In the second free practice I had some nice duels with Maverick Vinales, but unfortunately he was not really fast either.”

With his 2.10.100 Salom was over a second slower than Sandro Cortese who set the provisional fastest time. Cortese was in a group not far behind Vinales and Salom, who seemed to think it was race day already instead of free practice. “Cortese was clever”, Salom admitted. “I have to be more smart next time and find myself a good slipstream to set a better time. On this track that is the difference between twelfth and fifth.”

Source: RW Racing GP