LORENZO SAVADORI : POLE POSITION, WIN AND FASTEST LAP DURING
THE FIRST RACE OF THE 125GP ITALIAN CHAMPIONSHIP AT MUGELLO
 On
Sunday April 20th, the first round of the 2008 Road Racing
Italian Championship was held on the famous track of Mugello.
Lorenzo Savadori made a perfect race with his Aprilia and
demonstrated to be the man to beat.
In 2007, he already obtained the pole position (the youngest
rider to ever conquer the pole position at Mugello during
an Italian Championship race) but he crashed during the race.
This year he had his revenge and showed everybody to be perfect,
from the first practice until the end of the race, obtaining
the pole position, the victory and even making the fastest
lap during the race.
In addition he also broke an important record, first held
by Marco Melandri, becoming the youngest winner of an Italian
Championship race in the 125GP class.
Lorenzo Savadori: “I’m very
happy about the result, I‘ve been looking for it for
a long time and for various reasons it still hadn’t
happen. Now I finally made it. At the first corner, I was
sixth but at the end of the first lap I already was at the
back of the first rider and I immediately went on the front.
I got my own pace, from the box my team was giving me wrong
information not to make me lose concentration, so I went on
pushing at the maximum. Then, during the last laps, I saw
I had an advantage of more than five seconds on the other
riders and therefore I controlled myself until the chequered
flag to avoid making any error. This is my first win with
a 125GP, thanks to my team and to Aprilia, putting a great
bike at my disposal. I also would like to thank my family,
my manager Marchionni Roberto and all my partners. I hope
that, with this victory, some more sponsors will arrive for
us, in order to finish the season in an even better way. In
two weeks there will be the second round of the Italian Championship,
at Monza, and I hope to repeat today’s result. My dream
is now to get the opportunity to participate in the race of
the World Championship that will take place here at the Mugello
track”.
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