Video: Cairoli on Pala – bike set-up issues

Swapmoto caught up with a number of 450 riders at Pala to discuss their first round, including Antonio Cairoli who took seventh overall despite a first moto crash, and he was still looking for fitness and bike comfort:

“I struggled a bit with the track, the setting of the bike,” he admitted. “Back in Europe I am riding with a different frame and it’s way stiffer than this so the suspension I developed was made for that frame so here I was struggling a little bit. I didn’t have the chance to test becuase we tested on different tracks to this, hopefully on Tuesday we have more time to come here and test and develop a little bit the bike the next race.

“Two times top six (until late race crash in race one left him 10th), considering the amount of training I had I am happy with it, first moto, a stupid crash in the last two laps and I threw away a sixth position.

“I didn’t do motos until I came here, I only deciced last month to come and race because I am testing for R&D, and here if you are fit you can attack the track more because it was very sketchy in a lot of places, I was just cruising with high gears and survive with a lot of bumps. I was still enjoying the ride even if the track was not one of my favourites, it’s still nice.”

Get the full interview below at 7 min 39 seconds…

Image: Align media

Jonathan McCready and Andy McKinstry discuss the AMA opener, Honda’s performance, Dungey and Cairoli plus the MXGP in Spain with Renaux’s win and MX2 points leader changes plus Everts’ speed.

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