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Despite a good start followed by a solid race in Motegi unfortunately Bo Bendsneyder and Jesko Raffin stayed just outside of the points. Bendsneyder finished 16th in Japan, while Raffin had to settle for 19th. Both riders of NTS RW Racing GP had to come from far. Bendsneyder managed to advance from 27th to 21st in the first lap of the Moto2 race of the Japanese Grand Prix. From there he could win places step by step. After a crash by Mattia Pasini, at whose tail Bendsneyder was sitting for…

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The Moto2 has had few wet sessions in 2019 and for Jesko Raffin it was even the first time on a wet track with the NTS. The Swiss quickly mastered the circumstances and rode to eighth place in QP1, which earned him 22nd place on the starting grid for Sunday. Bo Bendsneyder was fast in the pouring rain in FP3, but a crash at the end of that session had consequences for QP1. The Dutchman came to thirteenth in qualifying, making him start the race from a disappointing 27th place.…

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In view of the expected rain on Saturday, Bo Bendsneyder and Jesko Raffin had to try as many things as possible and gather as much information as possible on the first day of the Grand Prix of Japan, to perform well in the home race of NTS on Sunday. The Grand Prix of Japan started at the beginning of the week already for Bendsneyder, Raffin and team manager Jarno Janssen with a visit to the NTS factory in Fukushima. “Super nice to meet the people who are working very hard for…

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The result was not satisfactory, but the information that Bo Bendsneyder and Jesko Raffin collected during the Moto2 race of the Thailand GP is very valuable. Both riders of NTS RW Racing GP ran into roughly the same issues and frame builder NTS and the team can use that data to improve. The 20th place of Bendsneyder and the 22nd place of Raffin were of course not what NTS RW Racing GP and the riders were hoping for. On the scorching hot Chang International Circuit in Buriram, the asphalt reached…

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A very local rain shower threw a spanner in the works in the final phase of the first qualifying session for the Grand Prix of Thailand. Due to the sudden wetness in turn 3 of the Chang International Circuit in Buriram, Jesko Raffin and Bo Bendsneyder saw no chance to make a perfect lap. They ended the session in ninth and eleventh respectively and will start the Moto2 race from 23rd (Raffin) and 25th (Bendsneyder). Although both riders of NTS RW Racing GP improved their lap time compared to Friday,…

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The opening day of the MotoGP of Thailand went under particularly warm but fortunately dry conditions. On the first day at the Chang International Circuit in Buriram, Bo Bendsneyder and Jesko Raffin were mainly looking for the right settings. The riders of NTS RW Racing GP rode the 24th (1.36.884) and 28th (1.37.534) time respectively. Bendsneyder and Raffin were not entirely satisfied with their positions, but they were not dissatisfied with the times either. Also in Thailand the differences in the Moto2 are very small, with 24 riders within a…

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Luck should have been a bit more with Bo Bendsneyder and Simone Corsi to grab points in the Grand Prix of Aragon. Bendsneyder had little grip at the start of the Moto2 race and finished 18th, while Corsi suffered from chatter at the end of the race and crossed the line in 21st. The Italian got away well 26th on the grid at Motorland Aragon. He won six places in the opening phase. In lap 7, crashes from Nagashima and Roberts earned him another two places. Three laps later, however,…

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The lap times of Bo Bendsneyder and Simone Corsi were a lot faster than on the first day at Motorland Aragon, but not fast enough to reach Q2. The result is that Bendsneyder starts the Moto2 race from 21st and Corsi from 26th. The Moto2 runs at 14.30 CET tomorrow, after the MotoGP which starts at 13.00. Steps were made on both sides of the NTS RW Racing GP garage on the unexpectedly dry and warm Saturday of the Aragon Grand Prix. The expected rain fell early in the morning…

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For a long time, it looked like Bo Bendsneyder could qualify directly for QP2 at Motorland Aragon. However, in the final phase of the second free practice, the Dutchman was unable to improve his time. He finished the first day in Spain in 18th. Simone Corsi managed to improve his time in the afternoon session, but that didn’t help the Italian to improve his position from 22nd. The start was good. In FP1, Bendsneyder set the fourteenth fastest time with 1.53.700. In FP2 he also stayed around that position, which…

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Bo Bendsneyder and Simone Corsi had the points in sight in the Moto2 race of the Grand Prix of San Marino & Riviera di Rimini, but they just didn’t manage to grab them. Bendsneyder was the closest to it in seventeenth place at the finish line of the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli. Corsi fell back in the final phase from sixteenth to nineteenth place. Both riders of NTS RW Racing GP fought a fierce battle in a group of about ten. Corsi in particular did good business in this…

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