Blog | Gabin Planques so close to the podium in Austria

Posted on 06 Sep 2019

By Gabin Planques

Hi Everyone,

I'm back from my fifth Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup race at the Red Bull Ring, it was a fantastic weekend.

Thursday I arrived at the circuit with my helper and in the afternoon I went to do the track walk with Daniel Ribalta to take my first marks on the circuit.

Friday we had two Free Practice sessions of thirty minutes and a Qualifying Practice of twenty-five. In the FP1 I learned the circuit and start making the first settings on the bike with Santi then I finished this FP1 6th.

In FP2 I managed to find my marks and make good chronos and I finished 6th.

For Qualifying I managed to have a good pace but I was not successful in making a good lap.I finished this qualification 14th.

For the first race I made a good start and on the first lap I was at 9th. Then a group of 12 riders formed a train and I finished this race 4th at 0.035 from first with incredible feeling on the bike.

For Race 2 I also made a good start and there was again a group in a train all the race. I was 10th, then for the last lap I pushed and I finished this race 7th with the fastest lap of the race.