Unlucky DNF for Nakagami in Motegi
Takaaki Nakagami suffered an unfortunate DNF at home in Motegi, the Honda HRC wildcard battling hard with Jack Miller when he ran wide and fell. The Honda HRC Test Team rider had shown consistent progress before that, marching from 19th on the grid and up into the points. Nakagami will no resume his private testing schedule.
Takaaki Nakagami
“A little bit frustrating to not finish the race, I was trying to pass Miller and I ran off at Turn 10 and couldn’t restart. Before that I was happy with my performance and the bike was feeling better than Saturday. Overall it has been a good weekend, the podium for Joan is really fantastic and inside the Test Team we have done a lot of good work. The RC213V is clearly better than last year and we will keep working to improve it again.”
