Remy sets to work at Donington

Remy Gardner returned to action at the iconic Donington Park, Great Britian, as round five of the FIM Superbike World Championship got underway, prioritising race distance over single-lap performance to sit 14th on combined times on day one.

The GYTR GRT Yamaha duo enjoyed a decent first free practice, showing good speed in the 45-minute session, producing laps with the same set of tyres throughout. Remy was sixth quickest with a time of 1’27.318, while teammate Aegerter was 15th on a 1’27.953.

In the afternoon’s Free Practice 2, the story was the same, with Aegerter and Gardner’s respective crews focusing their work on race pace rather than flying laps, with a specific focus on assessing the different option race tyres. After completing consistent long runs, Remy was 14th (1’26.938).

Remy Gardner
P14 (1’26.938)

“It was great to jump back on my Yamaha R1 machine and we had an interesting day. The morning was overall ok, but in the afternoon we didn’t improve as much as we expected, I’m struggling a bit with grip. I’m confident anyway that we’ll work very hard tonight and come back stronger tomorrow, we’re close to the top group and I think we can have a good Saturday.”