{"id":13951,"date":"2013-03-23T17:55:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13951"},"modified":"2013-03-23T17:55:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:55:11","slug":"mahindra-racing-concludes-pre-season-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13951","title":{"rendered":"Mahindra racing concludes pre-season testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-13950\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"efren-vazquez--miguel-oliveira mahindra\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/efren-vazquez-miguel-oliveira.jpg\" height=\"225\" width=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/efren-vazquez-miguel-oliveira.jpg 225w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/efren-vazquez-miguel-oliveira-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Mumbai: <strong>Mahindra Racing<\/strong> completed its programme of pre-season testing in glorious sunshine at Jerez in southern Spain today (Thursday). The Indian team\u2019s new riders, Portugal\u2019s <strong>Miguel Oliveira<\/strong> and Spaniard <strong>Efr\u00e9n V\u00e1zquez<\/strong>, ended the three-and-a-half days with the 6th and 16th (seventh on day four) fastest times in the Moto3\u2122 class respectively out of 33 participating riders, adding to solid performances at the previous tests in Valencia and Jerez in February.<\/p>\n<p>The new look Mahindra team has made steady progress throughout the winter tests. The focus this week has been to work on set-up for the all-new red and white Mahindra MGP-3O motorcycles and to record as many kilometres as possible to identify any issues. The riders have completed a combined total of 2,427 trouble-free kilometres at Jerez, venue for the third round of this year\u2019s MotoGP World Championship. The bikes will now be packed up and shipped directly to Qatar for the season-opening race on 7 April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very satisfied with the package we have put together since last season in terms of the riders, team and bike,\u201d explained Mahindra Racing CEO <strong>Mufaddal Choonia<\/strong> at Jerez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything has gelled well and we are achieving the targets we set after some very hard work from all concerned over the winter. This is an entirely new bike developed between our new Swiss base and Mahindra in India. I think it looks great and the feedback from the riders has been good. It is encouraging to see that our times have not been far from the top group during these tests, but we are not getting ahead of ourselves. This is only testing and we have a long season ahead of us, but it is nice to go to Qatar having made a solid and positive start to 2013. I am looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Oliveira\u2019s best lap time of 1\u201947.548 (almost half a second quicker than he went at the February test), was the fourth fastest of the final day. The 18 year old from Pragal near Lisbon suffered a small fall in the windy conditions, but was nevertheless pleased with the test. \u201cWe have created a good, solid base to start the season,\u201d he said. \u201cThis has been a really good start with no problems with the engine and we have not finished developing the bike yet, so I am sure we can make more improvements. What is interesting now is to go to other circuits and work on setting up the bike for those. I can\u2019t wait until Qatar, as racing is different from testing and so only then will we have a true indication of where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His Spanish team-mate, Efr\u00e9n V\u00e1zquez, echoes Oliveira\u2019s desire to get to Qatar. The 26 year old, explained: \u201cIn testing you have four days to produce a lap time, whereas in Qatar we\u2019ll only have four sessions of 40 minutes before the race. We now have a good base and seem to have a good rhythm from our first laps out in each session, so I am looking forward to it. I am very happy with the Mahindra team. We have a good group and we are all very together and motivated. This will be important during the long season ahead. We still have a bit of work to do with the engine and chassis setting, but on the whole this experience has been very positive. I now have a few weeks of solid training to prepare myself physically and mentally for the season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Mahindra Racing completed its programme of pre-season testing in glorious sunshine at Jerez in southern Spain today (Thursday). The Indian team\u2019s new riders, Portugal\u2019s Miguel Oliveira and Spaniard Efr\u00e9n V\u00e1zquez, ended the three-and-a-half days with the 6th and 16th (seventh on day four) fastest times in the Moto3\u2122 class respectively out of 33 participating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[7237,6293,934,7238,8406,936],"class_list":["post-13951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-efren-vazquez","tag-indian-sports-news-network","tag-mahindra-racing","tag-miguel-oliveira","tag-motogp-world-championship","tag-mufaddal-choonia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mahindra racing concludes pre-season testing - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13951\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mahindra racing concludes pre-season testing - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mumbai: Mahindra Racing completed its programme of pre-season testing in glorious sunshine at Jerez in southern Spain today (Thursday). 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