Alex Rins debrief from Friday at Phillip Island

Alex Rins Interview
Friday – Australian GP

Trev was in the press scrum on completion of proceedings on Friday at Phillip Island and reports in with some quotes.

Impressive work, tell us how you did it.

Alex Rins: “Thank you so much, honestly, on the bike I am feeling a lot of pain. I am feeling more pain that I was suspecting before I ride, and maybe because there are a lot of fast sections, corner 10 is braking downhill on the right, but anyway we are working a lot with all the staff from the health tent there, all my personal team, to have less pain. To see if we can try, because now I’m riding super tight on the bike, I cannot half angle and you know here in corner three, corner eight, you need to do angle to turn the bike. But anyway, we did it a great job today, lets see what awaits tomorrow.”

How about the track?

Alex Rins: “The track was a bit bumpy, a bit more bumpy than last year, but more or less OK, the surface was fine. Today the weather was unbelievable it was fantastic, with one leg after a crash… I was at two-tenths off my fastest lap, so it was not so bad.”

After the crash this morning, is everything ok?

Alex Rins: “Everything ok, I just braked a little bit too hard, more bite than normal on the first touch, and I was lucky because I was standing and a little bit high to not touch the ground. But it was without any consequences.”

You said you were riding with one leg, but you were the top Honda, what’s possible for the rest of the weekend?

Alex Rins: “I don’t know honestly, we are working hard, we have tried some different settings on the bike. I also [tried] different spec of rear tail with wings, without wings, so we are doing a lot of comparisons. But you know I’m striving to do a lot of laps. So let’s see.”

WIth dramatic wind forecast for Sunday, 40 km/h gusting to a lot more than that, will you pull some aero off the bike?

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Alex Rins: “We can, we already removed some aero parts.”

To help with your leg your leg?

Alex Rins: “A little bit of everything, we have two specs, and we can not remove all the wings (I corrected him on that in a chat afterwards as I do believe that there is a note in the rule book that allows for exactly that at Phillip Island), we just have two specs, homologated. The new one that is the one that brings online in the middle of the season, I already tried in Mandalika, and it was more demanding for the change of direction and to go the fast corners. So we didn’t put it on here. We are riding with the standard or old one.”

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