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 bike 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 also be host to Method 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 yr’s MotoGP race weekend may even 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 probably the most of a dramatic climb to show one earlier than plunging downhill by way 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 complicated for a mix of corners that demand heavy braking by way of tightening corners earlier than arriving again on the essential pit straight. Total, the elevation modifications 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 yr’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 centesimal begin in World Championship Grand Prix racing.
The Trackhouse duo, who each left the final race in Portugal pissed off 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 Apply 1 session on Friday, April twelfth.
Saturday, April 13: SPRINT RACE – 10 Laps
3pm (Native time CDT) 4pm (US Japanese Time) 1pm (US Pacific Time) 9pm (BST) 10pm (CEST)
Sunday, April 14: GRAND PRIX – 20 Laps
2pm (Native time CDT) 3pm (US Japanese 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 yr 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 best route, we will problem for extra. It’s all the time a pleasant Grand Prix right here and this yr it’s going to be much more particular carrying the American flag with us!”
RAUL FERNANDEZ
“I’m actually completely satisfied to come back again to this monitor. After the start of the yr, which was undoubtedly 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 take pleasure in myself on the bike once more, which is our goal and for our Trackhouse Group, this weekend could be very particular, so we actually intention to take pleasure in and attempt to do our most in the US.”
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 can be matching our potential. Raul, after two races with outcomes that we had been actually not anticipating, is getting an increasing number of snug so we might be seeking to attempt to capitalize on what we now have constructed to this point, within the first two races. We can not neglect that he missed a lot of the winter testing and there’s a lot to come back 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 deal with the race at COTA. Raul and Miguel have proven some very promising velocity this yr and I believe we now have a giant alternative this weekend to battle for a great consequence. 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.”
