Ukawa: "I didn't ride a good race."
Tohru Ukawa took a solid eighth-place finish in his 500 debut at GP racing's most complex track, but wasn't happy.
"I'm very angry because I didn't ride a good race," said the disappointed Japanese rider. "I wasn't good from the beginning and I dropped back into the second group of riders at the start. I then tried to push hard in order to reach the first group, but I had several big moments with the front end of the bike which was a warning signal to take it a bit easier.
Tohru Ukawa took a solid eighth-place finish in his 500 debut at GP racing's most complex track, but wasn't happy.
"I'm very angry because I didn't ride a good race," said the disappointed Japanese rider. "I wasn't good from the beginning and I dropped back into the second group of riders at the start. I then tried to push hard in order to reach the first group, but I had several big moments with the front end of the bike which was a warning signal to take it a bit easier.
"When I realised that I was unable to ride in the 2min 03secs consistently and that I was close to a crash several times, I preferred to stay in my group until the final laps," admitted Ukawa. "When Crivill? crashed and Nakano started to pull away, I tried to stay with him, but it wasn't possible. My bike had the same front end chatter that it had yesterday."
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