The 2021 Moto2 runner-up was one of several riders to crash on Saturday in Indonesia, though his was a particularly nasty one.
The Spaniard pushed too hard on used rubber and slid off his KTM at around 200km/h, leaving him with bruising to his face and his head.
Upset that he couldn’t fit a fresh soft tyre for a time attack at the end of the day – leaving him 21st on the timesheets – Fernandez says his Saturday was still positive despite the “hard” fall.
“The day was really positive, we did one step from yesterday,” the battered Spaniard, who also had a light front-end crash at the Sepang test last week, said.
“I see, more or less, lap by lap the other riders and we are more or less there.
“We’re not very far, we don’t lose too much time to them. This is important, also all the day I was in the top 15.
“But in the last part of the day I crashed and I could not put in a new tyres.
“Anyway, the day is positive and we will see tomorrow.
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