Gardner Finishes Silverstone Sprint in 18th Place

After a challenging start to the Monster Energy British Grand Prix weekend, wild-card entry Remy Gardner continued his testing programme for the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Test Team and made progress. He finished the Sprint in 18th place, having collected useful data.

Remy Gardner continued his programme with the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Test Team on the Monster Energy British Grand Prix Saturday. The Australian rider, who made progress in every session this race weekend, enjoyed engaging in battles during the 10-lap dash. He finished in 18th place, and as he rode with new items in a race-like setting, he has provided Yamaha with valuable data.

Gardner had a strong start from P22 and moved up to 17th place within less than half of the first lap. However, he then got under pressure from Raul Fernandez and Johann Zarco and fell back to 19th. On lap 3, Takaaki Nakagami had closed in on Gardner as well, who welcomed the competition. The battle soon became about 18th place because Francesco Bagnaia crashed out with six laps to go. Though the Yamaha test rider couldn't maintain his position for long, he moved up the order again as Marc Marquez took a fall on lap 8. Gardner continued to push and finished in 18th place, 31.070s from first.

MotoGP will be back in action tomorrow for Warm Up, held from 09:40 - 09:50 GMT +1, and the 20-lap Race, which starts at 13:00.