Stoner explains bad Silverstone start
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In last Sunday’s MotoGP race at Silverstone, Casey Stoner lost ten places after a bad start which saw him drop to the back of the field as the riders went into the first corner. But a superb ride from there onwards saw the Australian rise to fifth by the end.
“I’m not happy with fifth place because we were capable of more today. I don’t know if we could have challenged Jorge for the win but we definitely found something in warm-up and made more improvements in the race, but we paid the price for a terrible start. As I let the clutch out the bike started jumping and hopping around and I had to pull the clutch in and go again, by which time everybody was past.”
“The tyres were fresh on before the warm-up lap so in the early laps I had to be really careful before being able to start overtaking and I lost a lot of seconds. The race then was fun, we were able to find a good rhythm and to make our way forward but the time lost at the beginning prevented us by fighting for the podium.”
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