MotoGP rookie Iker Lecuona showed some great progress throughout Saturday at the Gran Premio dell’Emilia Romagna e della Riviera di Rimini. He improved with nearly each session, was working on his race pace in FP4 and eventually equaled his best ever Qualifying result yet with the third fastest time in Q1. With his stunning 1:31.715 he missed out on what could have been a first Q2 by just 0.103 seconds and will start the seventh race of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship season from the fifth row of the grid.

With a fabulous lap time of 1:31.965 minutes, Red Bull KTM Tech3’s Miguel Oliveira kicked off the Gran Premio dell’Emilia Romagna e della Riviera di Rimini today in fifth position. The quick Portuguese was focusing on working towards this Sunday’s second race at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli in FP2, but was nearly as fast as in the morning. He finished Friday in P8 overall, securing a direct Q2 spot over night.

With a lot of experience and data, Red Bull KTM Tech3’s Miguel Oliveira is heading into the seventh race weekend of the 2020 season in 10^th position of the overall standings, just 28 points behind the leader of the MotoGP World Championship. The Portuguese star showed a brave ride last Sunday at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli to collect important points, but aims to advance from his 11^th position in the race, having carried out a test day on Tuesday at the same venue.