Bradley Smith’s Portuguese GP Quotes
Bradley Smith’s Estoril podium finish was unexpected after a tough start to his weekend. He fell on Friday in practice and faced a race against time to find a setting for the Estoril round. He found it on Saturday, and seemed to be at home with the Aprilia throughout the Sunday race. His worked nearly seemed to be for nothing when he came close to crashing as part of Terol’s fall, but Smith kept a cool head in the lap six incident. He was in the running for the victory, but a decisive last lap left him settling for third place and another podium for his 2009 tally. He moves up to second in the standings.
3rd Bradley Smith:
“It can is obvious that victory would have been an option had I been able to slipstream Pol, but it wasn’t to be. My plan was to stick behind him and pull out on the line, but on the last lap Sandro got in between us and closed up. I am satisfied with the result, especially on a day in which so many other guys fell. I was lucky not to go down when Terol crashed. I had a good pace, even though we had lost a lot of time on day one with the crash in practice, so I owe a lot to the team for their work this weekend. They were speedy in preparing the bike to perfection for m despite the time constraints. We were able to finish off the weekend with a podium, which is good when you consider that Portugal is not one of my best tracks. We are a little too far from the title, but we are in a good spot to finish high up in the standings and I know that I can go well in Australia. We have taken a step forward this weekend, so I hope that this continues at Phillip Island.”
