A crash on race 1 followed by a sixth place on the Superpole race and a 12th on race 2 made it up to Remy Gardner on his home race at the WSBK first round, with the australian failing to get the desire result, by far.
The GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team rider looked at his weekend on a team statement as follow: ‘Well, this weekend wasn’t meant to be. We had some good fights in the sprint race and the pace was there, unfortunately we couldn’t finish inside the top three even though we had great speed’.
As for what happened in the race 2, in which he was involved with Jonathan Rea who ended up crashing, the #87 said his bike was damaged, and despite being apparently ok, it wasn’t like that: ‘I felt we could make another try in Race 2, but I couldn’t avoid Jonathan’s bike and I ended up having some damage. The red flag gave us another chance, but I had to restart from the back of the grid. I think this is not good, but rules are rules. Although the guys made a fantastic job on making me able to go out again, the bike was not completely okay but we were still able to score valuable point’.
And concluded: ‘It’s a bit a shame that we couldn’t convert our race potential, but we have to take the positives from the weekend; speed was there and we made a great job, head down to Barcelona for the second round of the season’.
Stay with the crash from Gardner on his home race:
The moment @GardnerRemy's Race 1 efforts came to an abrupt end after contact with @Axel47Bassani at Phillip Island 💥#AustralianWorldSBK 🇦🇺 pic.twitter.com/geP7wSsMgc
— WorldSBK (@WorldSBK) March 1, 2024