CZECH GP - Gaviota Aspar Team starts the first triple-header on top

AVIOTA ASPAR TEAM STARTS THE FIRST TRIPLE-HEADER ON TOP     Albert Arenas arrives in the Czech Republic still with an eye on his injured left ankle. His teammate Stefano Nepa sets himself the goal of improving in qualifying practice   Gaviota Aspar Team rider Albert Arenas leads the Moto3 World Championship despite the crash at the Andalucía Grand Prix. The brilliant start to the season, with the victories in Qatar and Jerez, allowed him to have a 14-point advantage that has been almost reduced to zero. Arenas now competes in Brno with just six points more than Tatsuki Suzuki, winner of the last race, and ten over the Scottish John McPhee. Behind, and still within the 25-points difference of a victory, are Ai Ogura, Gabriel Rodrigo or Celestino Vietti. In a championship that will have 15 races, a DNF means more than in a "normal" year, so the key until the end of the season for all of them will be consistency. Albert Arenas has already spent his jolly in Jerez, where he crashed with seven laps to go when he was competing in the leading group. In the crash, he also suffered a sprained left ankle that has led him to spend the week rehabilitating with physiotherapy sessions to get in shape for the Brno race. This season's schedule, with several consecutive races, is a tough challenge in case of injury, but Arenas aspires to be able to fight his rivals on the same level. His teammate Stefano Nepa hopes to improve in the search for a fast lap on the qualifying practices and thus be able to take advantage of the good pace and speed he has during the race. The Italian knows that qualifying in front helps on Sunday by avoiding comebacks that prevent him from fighting for higher goals. In Jerez, for example, he entered Q2 in the Spanish Grand Prix and, in the race, he was able to compete with the second group and finish three seconds behind the winner.   Albert Arenas: “It has been a very intense week, it was not easy to face the recovery with the pain in the ankle, but we had to adapt to it. In Brno I will try to listen to what my body feels. I have strength and I have recovered much of the mobility, and I want to try myself in the FP1, without thinking much about the foot. I arrive in Brno wanting to compete again, in what will be the first of three races in a row. It will be important to be constant in all three and see how the weeks go by and how the injury evolves.” Stefano Nepa: “We are focused on these three weekends ahead of us, but with good memories of the two races at Jerez. There, we only lacked having done a better qualifying practice, so that will be our main objective in these three races. Starting from the front, I think we can fight to get into the top 10 because we have a good pace. I'm happy with how the season is going so far.”

CZECH GP - The Openbank Aspar Team prepares for three hectic weeksin central Europe

Aron Canet arrives in Brno in fourth place in his Moto2 debut season, while teammate Hafizh Syahrin hopes to recover from the Jerez DNF   The most special Motorcycling World Championship in recent years deals this August in the center of Europe with the first of the three triple-headers that the calendar of the 2020 season has brought with itself. The Brno circuit and the Red Bull Ring, in two occasions, will host the fourth, fifth and sixth rounds of the Moto2 category, led by Tetsuta Nagashima. The Japanese rider lost his advantage at the top of the standings after the race in Jerez: from a 17-points lead to just 2. The only thing that remains the same is the nationality of his pursuers: before, it was Lorenzo Baldassarri in second, now it’s the Andalucía GP winner Enea Bastianini, with Luca Marini in third. Both Bastianini and Marini already know what it is to get on the podium of the Czech circuit, something that to date has not been achieved by the Japanese, who is facing his best season in the World Championship and will want to take advantage of his state of form in these three races. In the fourth position in the general standings, twenty points behind the leader, is the Openbank Aspar Team rider Aron Canet. The Valencian is surprising in his debut in the category and has shown himself as one of the most regular riders and the only one who has always finished in the top eight in the three races held to date. Canet has finished on the podium in the last three Grand Prix races in Brno: he was third in 2017, second in 2018 and winner in 2019, always in the Moto3 category. This year he has impressed with his quick adaptation to the Speed ​​Up bike and this weekend he aspires to remain among the best. At his side, Hafizh Syahrin will seek to make up for the DNF at Andalucía, where he had started a comeback from the twenty-second position that led him to fight for the points. The pending subject for the Malaysian rider is the qualifying practice, since in the last races he has shown a great race pace that he has not been able to take full advantage of when starting from behind.   Aron Canet: “This week I have returned to my daily routine and I have enjoyed the stay at home, but it has been short. Anyway, I don't dislike it, we've already been locked up at home for four months and now I want races. We start the first of three GPs in a row in Europe, one in the Czech Republic and two in Austria. I love Brno, I have been on the podium for the last three years and last year I won, it will be nice to go back there. We will try to aim for the top and make the fans that will be watching us from home enjoy.” Hafizh Syahrin: “We are back to the races and these ones will be tough, because they are three in a row. I arrive with confidence; I have been working hard in Spain after the Jerez race. I want to get back on the bike and give my best. In addition, we know where we have to improve, especially in qualifying practice, to be able to start from the front, because we are doing well in the race. I hope we have a good weekend; it will be a good way to start the triple-header."