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Héctor Barberá discusses the importance of a strong qualifying category following his fourth premier class
event, the Gran Premio d’Italia TIM, in 12th position on Sunday. Another good race from the Páginas Amarillas
Aspar rookie, continues to see his development progress in the premier class on the satellite Ducati.
Having claimed
an eighth spot in the previous event at Le Mans, Barberá’s hopes to improve going into the Mugello weekend.
He will want to qualify higher than the 13th he began from in Italy, to allow himself the best opportunity of taking more
top ten results.
"The same thing that happened to me in Qatar and Jerez occurred here,” he states. “On
the opening laps I saw that I could ride in eighth or seventh, but I got ahead of myself. It's what you get for qualifying
low down the order, keeping me away from the others at the start and requiring me to push harder to recover. That's when
I make mistakes. So now I've learnt that I have to do a single fast lap in qualifying to avoid this situation.”
“At the start of the race I overran my braking point, but I returned to the track and tried to take a progressive
approach in finding a strong pace. It gets my back up a bit, because I could have done a lot better. I can't wait for
Silverstone in order to keep working on this."
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