WorldSSP 2016 Eighth place and Superpole 2 for Jacobsen at the Lausitzring Round 9 – Germany

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@WorldSSP 2016 Eighth place and #Superpole 2 for @Jacobsen at the #Lausitzring Round 9 – #Germany
Lausitzring, Germany



PJ Jacobsen has claimed eight place in the combined times of today’s two free practice sessions for the Supersport World Championship at the Lausitzring in Germany, where the ninth round of the season is currently underway. The young American had a good start to the day by posting the second fastest time in the morning session on board his Honda CBR600RR #2 machine.
Free practice 2 was not as kind to last year’s World Supersport Vice Champion, who was unable to improve on his FP1 lap-time and dropped down to a final eighth place at the chequered flag. By finishing in the top 10, however, Jacobsen earned a spot in tomorrow’s 15-minute Superpole 2, which takes place tomorrow from 11:55.







Patrick Jacobsen 2
8th / 1'42.184
Today didn’t go as planned and it was a bit of a struggle, really. We need to try something tomorrow in order to improve our performance, especially with the gearing. I think we have found the right one and FP3 will tell if we’re right. Looks like it’s going to rain tomorrow and if it does, we have a good wet setup ready for it. Overall it could have been worse, we’re in Superpole 2 and I’m now looking forward to tomorrow.
- Honda WorldSSP






Pieter Breddels
Technical Manager
It wasn’t as easy as we’d hoped today – especially after last month’s test. We found quite difficult to improve our morning’s lap-time and, in the end, few riders were able to do better than us. We are losing half a second in one single split but we know what to do now. If we manage to sort this one out, things will look a lot different tomorrow. PJ is normally quite good in qualifying and anything can happen, so we’ll see how it goes. We have a lot of work to do ahead of Superpole, but we’ll be ready.
- Honda WorldSSP