FLYING THE FLAG!
Preview: 2024 RED BULL GRAND PRIX OF THE AMERICAS – Spherical 3 of the MotoGP World Championship
April 11 – 14: Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas. USA: Monitor size: 3.42 miles / 5.51 kilometers
Trackhouse Racing hits residence soil for Spherical 3 of the MotoGP World Championship, on the Circuit of the Americas, near the Metropolis of Austin, Texas. As America’s solely workforce within the premier class of motorbike racing, flying the flag in entrance of the workforce’s personal crowd makes this a very particular weekend.
Circuit of the Americas has been residence to the US spherical of the MotoGP World Championship since 2013 and can be host to Formulation 1 and NASCAR – simply a few weeks in the past, Trackhouse MotoGP sister workforce raced within the NASCAR Cup Collection on the Austin monitor and through this 12 months’s MotoGP race weekend may also be racing a pair hours up freeway 35, at Texas Motor Speedway, making it a Lone Star State double header for proprietor Justin Marks.
Circuit of the Americas monitor structure makes essentially the most of a dramatic climb to show one earlier than plunging downhill by means of a collection of sweeping corners and right down to the difficult hairpin on the backside of the course. The again stretch brings the bikes again in the direction of the pit advanced for a mixture of corners that demand heavy braking by means of tightening corners earlier than arriving again on the foremost pit straight. Total, the elevation adjustments quantity to over 130 ft (41 m) and like his residence circuit in Portugal, the altering gradients suited Trackhouse’s #88 Miguel Oliveira who got here residence fifth in final 12 months’s Grand Prix. For Raul Fernandez, the main focus could be very a lot on bringing his #25 Aprilia RS-GP22 residence for the chequers and a few confidence boosting factors. He has type on the monitor having taken victory within the intermediate Moto2 class in 2021 and Raul has proven he has the velocity to run on the entrance in what, come Sunday might be his one hundredth begin in World Championship Grand Prix racing.
The Trackhouse duo, who each left the final race in Portugal annoyed with their respective races, are pumped for the workforce’s residence debut and gunning for a chance to be sporting a Stetson come Sunday.
The motion for Trackhouse Racing will get going with the morning Free Follow 1 session on Friday, April twelfth.
Saturday, April 13: SPRINT RACE – 10 Laps
3pm (Native time CDT) 4pm (US Jap Time) 1pm (US Pacific Time) 9pm (BST) 10pm (CEST)
Sunday, April 14: GRAND PRIX – 20 Laps
2pm (Native time CDT) 3pm (US Jap Time) 12noon (US Pacific Time) 8pm (BST 9pm (CEST)
MIGUEL OLIVEIRA
“I’m wanting ahead to the workforce’s residence Grand Prix in Austin. Final 12 months I used to be comparatively aggressive within the high 10 locations and with the progress we now have made with the bike in Portimão, I’m hoping that making one other step in the proper path, we are able to problem for extra. It’s at all times a pleasant Grand Prix right here and this 12 months it’s going to be much more particular carrying the American flag with us!”
RAUL FERNANDEZ
“I’m actually completely satisfied to return again to this monitor. After the start of the 12 months, which was positively not what we had been hoping for and anticipating, I can’t wait to reach at Circuit of the Americas to see how aggressive we’re. I’ll attempt to get pleasure from myself on the bike once more, which is our goal and for our Trackhouse Workforce, this weekend could be very particular, so we actually purpose to get pleasure from and attempt to do our most in the USA.”
DAVIDE BRIVIO – TEAM PRINCIPAL
“We’re very enthusiastic about our first race within the USA, as Trackhouse, America’s MotoGP workforce. Trying ahead to this weekend in Austin, Miguel is getting extra used to the 2024 bike and it’s important that we’re persevering with to adapt and for us to discover a good base setting for him. He has not had the outcomes that we all know he can obtain – the outcomes which might be matching our potential. Raul, after two races with outcomes that we had been actually not anticipating, is getting an increasing number of comfy so we might be trying to try to capitalize on what we now have constructed up to now, within the first two races. We can’t overlook that he missed many of the winter testing and there’s a lot to return from him. Each of them and all of the workforce are wanting ahead to the weekend right here, in entrance of our residence followers!”
JUSTIN MARKS – TEAM OWNER
“That is the occasion I’ve been wanting so ahead to since we introduced we had been getting into the MotoGP World Championship. Trackhouse is an American firm however we’re a world model and welcoming the MotoGP workforce to our house is one thing that could be very particular to the corporate. It has already been a tremendous week with the workforce at our NASCAR headquarters in North Carolina however now it’s time to give attention to the race at COTA. Raul and Miguel have proven some very promising velocity this 12 months and I feel we now have a giant alternative this weekend to struggle for a very good end result. We’re making good progress with the bikes and the workforce. It might be very particular to have a profitable weekend and I do know we now have the instruments to take action on the firm’s residence race.”
