Red Bull Rookies Cup: The pressure is on in Misano for the final races of the 2025 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup.
It resulted in a number of falls; fortunately, no injuries. Veda Pratama made two errors, yet the 16-year-old Indonesian bounced back to qualify 2nd, just 0.123 seconds behind Cup points leader Brian Uriarte.
Spanish 17-year-old Uriarte has a 21 point advantage over Pratama and Malaysian Hakim Danish is a further 5 points behind. 18-year-old Danish qualified 6th and the Cup will be decided between the 3 of them over these two races with full fields of 26 KTMs.
Brian Uriarte 1st
“Before going on the track, for the Qualy, I don’t know why I was having some problems. I don’t know what, me, the bike, nothing was working well. Emilio (Alzamora, 1995, 125cc World Champion) told me that the work for tomorrow starts today. It’s a nice phrase that I will keep for the future because I really like it. It helped me, honestly… Sometimes you need someone to tell you the things you don’t like to know.”
“I just focus on myself. I tried to go alone, I was doing some good laps, and then I had a reference and I did the lap time.”
“Last year here, I went out for the race on Sunday, and I was thinking about being clever, and I tried not to lose. The thing is that you have to go out on the track to win, not to not lose. Tomorrow will be like this.”
Veda Pratama 2nd
“In the end, it was good, but also not-so-good bits. The negative is that I had two crashes. The second was in Qualifying, on the out lap. The mechanics checked the bike, and I went out again.”
“I tried to push and try to do a good lap. I’m really happy with the result. Tomorrow is another day, so we will see. I’m so excited for the race tomorrow.
David González 3rd
“I am happy for the P3,” stated the Spanish 17-year-old. “The Qualifying was difficult because I was alone and I tried to push, push, going to the limit. Then in the last three laps, I tried to push more, and in Turn 7, the front closed and I crashed. I was running to pick the bike up, I was OK, the bike was OK, and I’m on the front row, so I am looking forward to the race.”
Zen Mitani 4th
“I like this track so much,” enthused the 18-year-old Japanese. “It is not exactly like a Japanese track, but enough for me to feel comfortable. I feel good on the bike and I am sure going to be racing for the win if I can, as always.”
“I did wrench my shoulder last weekend falling off a CBR250, the shoulder is not as strong as it should be, but I’m tough enough,” he grinned.
Giulio Pugliese 5th
“I feel good,” said the Italian 16-year-old. “I did the laps all the time alone. In FP2, I crashed, a big crash in the last sector. I bruised my leg a bit, but that’s OK. The Qualifying wasn’t perfect, I still didn’t feel quite right in that sector, but I can manage for the race tomorrow.”
“I like the track very much, perhaps I like Mugello a little more, but it is still great to be racing in front of an Italian crowd.”
Hakim Danish 6th
“In FP1 and 2 in general, I didn’t have a good feeling with the bike. I struggled a lot, and I felt a lot of chattering. For Qualifying, we tried to improve on the bike and yeah, it’s working.”
“Let’s see for tomorrow, and I will fight. I feel it is about 80% right, and I will do everything that I can.”
Broadcast
This weekend’s Rookies Cup races can be seen live on www.redbull.tv and on TV stations around the world.
Race 1 is at 17:00 CET on Saturday and Race 2 is on Sunday at 08:45, the show starts 10 minutes before the race.
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