Tito Rabat leads the way at Brno

Tito Rabat ended the opening day at Brno at the top of the timesheet, with his Marc VDS teammate Mika Kallio second by just one tenth.

It was Rabat who made the most of almost perfect conditions to set the fastest time during the first 45-minute session, with Kallio dropping down to fifth having decided to run the harder option tyres this morning.

Tito Rabat // 1st // 2’03.126
“I’m happy with the job we’ve done today. I was fastest in the first practice session this morning, despite some issues with the bike We needed to test some different settings on the bike in the second session, which didn’t give me the same feeling, but I was still only two-tenths from Mika, so it wasn’t so bad. Tomorrow we will go more in the same direction with the settings as this morning, as well as looking for further improvements. Everyone seems to have had problems today with the revised shift system in the new engines, but it looks like we have this sorted now and I’m feeling positive about tomorrow.”

Source: Marc VDS Racing