News 28 Mar 2017

Gardner determined to make amends for Qatar disappointment

First race of the season ends on opening lap in Tech 3 Racing debut.

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Australian Remy Gardner has taken positives from his first appearance with Tech 3 Racing, despite being taken out of the Moto2 World Championship opener on lap one.

Gardner fell victim to Saturday’s qualifying cancellation and had to start from 23rd on the grid, leading to the incident at turn 10 with two other riders.

“We had a decent opening day where we made a lot of progress and I was pretty happy as we went faster without using a new tyre,” Gardner recalled. “We improved again in FP3 and I was looking forward to seeing what we could do in qualifying, but the rain was just too bad and the organisers made the right decision.

“Starting 23rd, I know that I wouldn’t have been taken out if we had started further up the field. Anyway, the positive is that I had a great start and the first two thirds of the lap went well. I’ve got to pick myself up now and focus on Argentina. I really thought that we could have achieved a positive result here, so it’s a big shame that it ended up this way, but I am more determined for the next round.”

Clearly annoyed, Gardner was unable to remount, so must wait until round two in Argentina in a fortnight to open his point-scoring account for 2017.

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