Finishing second test still with pain in shoulder. Abraham is waiting for start of the season

Finishing second test still with pain in shoulder.
Abraham is waiting for start of the season

During three days of second pre-season test in Malaysia Karel Abraham improved his time by 1,3 seconds in spite of his pain in shoulder. He took twenty-fifth position in total test classification. During the final test scheduled for next weekend in Qatar team will focus to improve the setting of the bike Honda RCV1000R. The aim is to have the bike one hundred percent prepared for the racing season as soon as the rider recovers fully.

Karel Abraham

„Even if we are far from positions where we would like to be, today it means for me a bit of hope. I expected that third day the shoulder would make problems, but I was able to be on the bike enough laps and repeatedly ride times at level of my maximum. Next week we start to test in Qatar so we fly directly there. So it is clear that the shoulder won’t recover miraculously. I will continue with rehabilitation and I have to hope that it will get better gradually. Now when I ride regularly I will be able to see some progress. I would like to be prepared for the race in Qatar, but if it will be like that no one can say it. But I’m going to do everything to be prepared in best manner possible.“

Marco Grana, chief mechanic Cardion AB Motoracing

„All three days we were improving day by day and it is a positive new for us. The bad one is that Karel is still limited by his shoulder injury and we cannot ride at the limit. The result that we have reached isn’t naturally the position where we would like to be or where we should be. Despite that we cannot ride fully I consider this test as helpful. We worked on the setting and also on the electronic to be hundered percent prepared when even Karel will be hundred percent prepared. We just have to wait for now. We don’t know how long it will take, but we know, when it will come we could race fully. I have to repeat again that the bike is working perfectly and gradually we are able to move limits of new electronic Magneti Marelli. Big contribution is new rear tyre developed specially for our open class by Bridgestone. In relation with lower power of the engine respect to prototypes, we could not use harder set of tyres adequately.

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