Jeremy Alcoba (Kawasaki WorldSSP Team) was looking forward to improving on his tenth position in Race One when Race Two got underway at Motorland, but the Spanish rider eventually retired after his pace had dropped off through the first half of the 15-lap race.
After the fastest lap times had been taken into consideration from Race One, the Race Two grid had Alcoba and his Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R 636 starting from tenth position.
Jeremy ended up 13th after one lap, then 16th after six laps. After crossing the start/finish line in 23rd place on lap ten of the scheduled 15-lap race duration, Jeremy entered the pits and ultimately retired.
This was only Jeremy’s second no-finish of his rookie WorldSSP season, and only the second time he has not scored points in any race. In the overall champion standings Alcoba is now ninth, with a total of 134 points – just two behind the rider ahead of him.
Soon Jeremy will cross the border from his native Spain to take part in the 11th round of the FIM Supersport World Championship season, at Estoril in Portugal, between 10-12 October.
Jeremy Alcoba
“First of all I want to say sorry to all the team because I couldn’t finish the race. This morning in warm-up we tested something that could have maybe helped us to be faster than yesterday. It was not enough and I didn’t feel good, so we went back to the settings from yesterday. In Race Two the feeling was not so good. I tried to push to be there, but I have only been near the front for two laps, then I had a lot of mistakes, I could not ride well, and I went wide every time. I could not understand why I was riding so slowly. I could not finish the race. I will do my best for the next two rounds.”
