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Karel Abraham started pretty well despite a sore arm in Assen

Karel Abraham of the Brno team Cardion AB also went from the British Isles to the Netherlands. After the fall in Sunday's race when he broke his wrist had a big pain in his hand, the question was whether he will start in Assen. Dr. Costa of mobile clinics took Karel just after arrival at the circuit and gave him a massage, using a variety of instruments and began to treat his hand. Karel still could not make the first free practice without pills on Thursday. He felt the pain when riding, but fortunately it did not shown on his performance. Karel rode 24 laps and he took his best time in 22nd lap - 1:40,573, which ranked him to the eighth place. He was one second from the fastest rider of the day - Italian Iannone. It is interesting that Karel got better his qualifying time for a second against last year on Thursday. But at that time he started in 250cc class.

Karel Abraham said after the first free practice:
" I had pain in my hand, but still the pills had mitigated that pain. I still could accelerate in the end. We started well, but we have to modify a lot of things on the motorcycle. The front wheel started to "bounce" and back wheel started to slid. I think that we tune it more on Friday morning and in the afternoon I will pass the qualification without any problems. Today, it was nice, sunny, so hopefully the weather will be good. "

 Results – Assen
 Moto2
1. Free practice:
1st Iannone (I, Speed Up) -   1:39,573
2nd Elias (E, Moriwaki)           -0,222
3rd Wilairot (TH, Bimoto)        -0,599
4th Tomizawa (J, Suter)           -0,645
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8th Karel Abraham (FTR)        -1,000