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The second day of the MotoGP of the Americas was a strange day. Due to rain and thunderstorms, the morning literally was a washout, and the free practice sessions had to be cancelled. Without that usual preparation, Bo Bendsneyder and Jesko Raffin started qualifying for the Moto2. This resulted in 16th place for Bendsneyder and 21st for Raffin. The free practice sessions were cancelled eventually after a few postponements and much uncertainty. So the long wait was for nothing. For NTS RW Racing GP, a wet session would have been…

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The difficult and extremely bumpy track of the Circuit of the Americas did not make it easy for the NTS RW Racing GP riders. Jesko Raffin ended the first day in Texas in seventeenth and the Swiss was quite satisfied with that. Bo Bendsneyder was not with his 24th place in the combined standings after two practices. The Dutchman could not improve his time from FP1 in the afternoon session. The first day of the MotoGP of the Americas started quite nicely for both Bendsneyder and Raffin. With the fifteenth…

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NTS RW Racing GP leaves Argentina with three points in their pockets: two for Bo Bendsneyder who finished in 14th in the Moto2 race, one for Jesko Raffin who crossed the line in 15th place. The points did not come naturally. Both riders had to go all the way on the demanding circuit of Termas de Rio Hondo, where it was much more oppressive than the first two days of the Argentine GP. The race was full of incidents, sliders and bikes that simply stopped. Even before the start: polesitter…

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Bo Bendsneyder will start the Moto2 race of the GP of Argentina from 16th. The Dutchman had to go through Q1 after just missing out on direct access to Q2 when he finished 15th in FP3 on the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit on Saturday morning. Jesko Raffin didn’t make it to Q2 and will start the race from 24th on the grid. NTS RW Racing GP had to cope with some small disappointments on the second day of the Argentinian Grand Prix. In FP3 Bo Bendsneyder was pushed out…

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NTS RW Racing GP riders Bo Bendsneyder and Jesko Raffin made a promising start at the first day of the Argentinian Grand Prix. In the combined standings of the first two practices Bendsneyder found himself in twelfth, giving him (provisionally) direct access to Q2 on Saturday. Raffin finished the day in 23rd. The conditions at Termas de Rio Hondo could in no way be compared to those in Losail three weeks ago, so everybody had to start from zero, more or less. Especially for Jesko Raffin the first day was…

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Bo Bendsneyder just missed out of points by 0.051 while her interim team mate Jesko Raffin took home 2 points from the opening race of the season. Already in the first turn of the VisitQatar Grand Prix Bendsneyder had to pull out all the stops to avoid three crashing bikes just in front of her. Starting from eighteenth Bendsneyder almost got caught up by the crashing bikes of Iker Lecuona, Nicolo Bulega and Jorge Navarro just in front of her. The manoeuvre in the openings stages of the Moto2 race…

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After the excellent start on the first day of the VisitQatar Grand Prix NTS RW Racing GP had hoped for more than eighteenth on the grid for Bo Bendsneyder and twentieth for Jesko Raffin. Both riders suffered from grip problems in the much cooler conditions on the Losail International Circuit during qualifying. The conditions on the second day of the Qatar GP had changed dramatically compared to the first day, with much more wind, coming from a different direction, and considerably lower track temperatures. With FP3 in the hotter afternoon…

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The signs were already good at the three-day test last week at the Losail International Circuit. On the first day of the Grand Prix of Qatar, Bo Bendsneyder and Jesko Raffin made the promise. In the first free practice, the Dutch rider of NTS RW Racing GP even managed to set the third fastest time. In the end, he finished the day in twelfth: well within the margins for the second qualifying round. His Swiss teammate Jesko Raffin ended the day in twentieth. The result of the first free practice,…

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NTS RW Racing GP has finished the preparations for the 2019 season with confidence and a good feeling. Bo Bendsneyder ended the last test session at the Losail International Circuit in ninth. Her temporary teammate Jesko Raffin concluded the day in seventeenth. Next Friday the season starts with the free practice sessions for the Grand Prix of Qatar, on the same circuit. Bendsneyder started well right away. In the first session she already set a time of 1.59.544. The problems that existed yesterday with the front of the NTS, could…

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Bo Bendsneyder improved his times on the second day of the Moto2 test in Qatar, but was not satisfied. The Dutch rider of NTS RW Racing GP closed the day as sixteenth overall with a time of 1.59.880, which he set in the second of the three sessions. His temporary teammate Jesko Raffin, on his first day with the NTS, made it to 2.00.976, which was good for 26th overall. Bendsneyder did not have an easy day. Especially the front of the NTS gave problems and despite various changes to…

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