Piotr Biesiekirski finished the Sunday’s sixth round of the European Moto2 Championship in a season’s best eleventh position, missing out on a Top 10 result at Jerez de la Frontera by just three tenths of a second.
Having started from 15th on the grid, the 18-year-old Pole, moved up the order to eleventh onboard his Euvic Stylobike Good Racing Team’s Kalex, before pushing Thailand’s experienced Anupab Sarmoon, a 25-year-old Valentino Rossi supported rider, all the way to the finish.
There are still three European Moto2 races to go this year with the upcoming two in just two weeks time at Albacete before a November’s season finale at Valencia, where Biesiekirski scored his career best, a seventh position, last year.
“After a troublesome first half of the season due to injury, today my goal was just to finish a solid, clean race and I’ve managed to do just that – says Piotr Biesiekirski, the only Pole and the youngest rider on the European Moto2 grid. – My pace was good and consistent, which confirms our progress. I was hoping to finish inside the Top 10 and only just missed out by three tenths of a second so I’m quite pleased with the final result. Especially considering how much I’ve learned from following an older and more experienced rival. I’m happy to have scored five Championship points but to be honest I don’t care about my position in the standings at all. After all the goal was to fight for Top 10 on a regular basis this year but I’ve missed the first three races of the season due to injury. All I want to do now is to give my best in the last three races of this season before coming back next year to fight at the front.”
