{"id":3348,"date":"2019-02-08T22:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T22:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2019-02-12T08:27:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T08:27:30","slug":"nakagami-happy-with-top-10-on-day-2-of-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/2019\/02\/nakagami-happy-with-top-10-on-day-2-of-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"NAKAGAMI COMPLETES EXCELLENT TEST SESSION IN MALAYSIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Takaaki Nakagami and his LCR Honda IDEMITSU Team signed off from the opening pre-season test of the year in Malaysia with an impressive ninth place, bolstering the Japanese rider\u2019s hopes for the season ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The vast majority of riders set their fastest lap times on the final morning, when the track was at its fastest. Nakagami joined them by putting in an excellent 1\u201959.148, less than a tenth outside the circuit\u2019s official best lap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Taka has made steady progress over testing so far, including finishing fastest overall at Jerez in November, and with one more test to go in Qatar in two weeks\u2019 time, it augurs well for the season opener at the same venue in early March.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Takaaki Nakagami \u2013 9th\u00a0<\/strong><strong>(1\u201959.148 \u2013 lap 21\u00a0of 61)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 12%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in 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height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Marquez_Day3_Sepang-Test_2019-09689-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Marquez_Day3_Sepang-Test_2019-09689-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Marquez_Day3_Sepang-Test_2019-09689-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/2019\/02\/nakagami-happy-with-top-10-on-day-2-of-testing\/_tin8397\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TIN8397-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TIN8397-150x150.jpg 150w, 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href='https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/2019\/02\/nakagami-happy-with-top-10-on-day-2-of-testing\/senza-titolo\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Senza-titolo-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Senza-titolo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Senza-titolo-70x70.png 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cIt has been good, but a really hard three days because the hot conditions don\u2019t make it easy to put in lots of laps. It\u2019s been a very important test for us though, and we have made improvements every day. We finished in P9 overall, so I\u2019m pleased to be inside the top ten again. The lap time is not so bad too, I\u2019m really happy to be close to the 1\u201958 barrier, but I do feel I still can\u2019t get the most out of one lap, whereas my race pace has improved significantly.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cThe LCR Honda IDEMITSU Team have worked really hard this week to improve things for me all the time. We have good potential on the bike, I feel strong, so the aim is just to continue that at the Qatar Test and then see what we can do from there.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takaaki Nakagami and his LCR Honda IDEMITSU Team signed off from the opening pre-season test of the year in Malaysia with an impressive ninth place, bolstering the Japanese rider\u2019s hopes for the season ahead. The vast majority of riders set their fastest lap times on the final morning, when the track was at its fastest. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}