Miguel Oliveira finished the MotoGP Grand Prix of Americas in 11th place, repeating the result of the Sprint race. Thus, he continues his streak of points finishes at the beginning of the season.
After a less than ideal start, the Trackhouse Racing rider made up ground in the standings. However, he was delayed by an incident ahead of him and lost the chance to finish in the top ten, as he explained:
– I got caught up with [Franco] Morbidelli’s crash, going super wide to avoid hitting him and his bike. I lost around five seconds that lap. Then I recovered going to a decent pace, but I just couldn’t get close enough to finish on the top ten.
The Portuguese rider continued: ‘It’s a shame, because I felt today we could have a real top ten finish. I was there just behind Aleix [Espargaró]. Probably in the end, him with the soft tyre and me with the medium, I could have maybe attack him. But it’s only a if. But we’ll build from here and go to Jerez’.
Maverick Viñales from the Aprilia factory team had a strong performance and won the race. But Oliveira doesn’t draw more confidence from that, as he stated: ‘I would say not because of Maverick, but just our own feeling, our own direction with the bike is going well. So we just need to focus on that and build up from Jerez’.