First qualification. Friday

World Supersport Championship

Round 13

Magny Cours 5-7 October 2012

FRIDAY OCTOBER 5.TH

Last race of the year. At the circuit we’ve never been before. New for the rider, new for the team. Fortunately the team staff had a possibility to work at home for solving some setting problems during two weeks between Portimao and Magny Cours. As we saw from the first laps in the wet free practice, Vladimir like new suspensions setting.

Sadly, but Leonov have similar health problems again. The same as the Portimao week-end.

No full power in a body, and strange sensations during hard moments of riding.

Just for that, we decided to concentrate efforts in few fast laps during qualifying, hoping that from now to Sunday race doctors of the Clinica Mobile can solve the Vladimir energy problems.

This strategy worked, and we could obtain an onorable 11.th position, with the time of 1’43”4. In this moment we are in thirth row, but the target of the first row is at less than 1 second, and for sure tomorrow, knowing better the circuit and improving the bike set-up, we could fight for it.

VLADIMIR LEONOV

“It’s really strange. I don’t feel myself at the top of my physical conditions. I’ve no enough energy to keep concentrate during all race, and I clearly see I’m not as effective as I would like. It’s a very strange feeling that in this condition it is difficult to help the team choose the right direction for the bike set-up. I hope day bay day, thank’s to a doctor’s help, my condition can became better and better”.