Voor Romano was het vandaag een speciale race, hij mocht namelijk zijn 50ste GP start bijschrijven op zijn palmares. In de race die 23 rondes mocht duren op het Philip Island Grand Prix Circuit kwam Romano goed uit de startblokken. Na de eerste ronde gereden te mogen hebben, kwam de Italiaan van het Sky Racing Team VR46 als 4de over de streep. Het is een circuit wat goed past bij de technische Fenati. Het zat voorin allemaal dicht bij elkaar met mooie gevechten. Fenny heeft er alles aan gedaan om op het podium te eindigen, helaas 2 rondes voor het einde ging het mis, na een lichte botsing met Efren Vazquez ging Romano hard onderuit en was de race over. Jammer, want Fenny zat goed in de wedstrijd en kon zeker een rol gaan spelen in de strijd om de overwinning. Ook Denny Kent en Brad Binder gingen onderuit en er bleven niet veel rijders meer over in de kopgroep, Jack Miller pakte de overwinning voor Alex Marquez en Alex Rins.
Sky-VR46 sports management: “Too bad for Romano because he was pulling off an awesome race. Unfortunately in Moto 3 at every turn there are five passes and it may happen. It’s a pity as Romano did a great job during the weekend, the bike was in top condition and so was him. There were the necessary conditions to achieve excellent results.
Pecco made a great performance, we are happy he was able to find a good setting this morning after he had been struggling all the weekend. Both him and his team worked hard”.
ROMANO FENATI in live exclusive to the microphones of Sky Sport MotoGP HD: “I was running a good race, for example, at turn one I was the one that had a little more guts to release the throttle. Then Vazquez hit me from behind, it may happen in races. Now we’ll see whether the competition judge will take any measure against him, races are good when they are hard-fought but dirty play may only be accepted at home when you are playing cards with your friends. Until that very moment everything was still at stake, the last of the group could become the first upon the first corner or the opposite. I was having great fun, there was a lot of overtaking. I was also trying to help Jack (Miller, editor’s note) to go forward so that he could slow down the race of Honda riders. He pulled off a great race, I congratulate him on his performance as he pushed very hard. In fact, if I had not crashed, I could have had my say”.