Britain's Bradley Smith took another tumble in FP3 on Friday but the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha rider hasn't allowed his head to drop as he aims to progress from Q1 on Saturday in Qatar. Smith came off on the opening day at the Losail circuit at turn 13 and suffered another front-end spill on day two, this time at turn 6. The 25-year-old was experimenting with a different balance setting when the incident occurred and eventually finished 12th quickest as he missed the cut for Q2. Smith, whose best lap in 1m 55.505s on the satellite Yamaha left him eight tenths back on Ducati's Andrea Iannone, said: “For me FP2 was a struggle and I seemed to get a little bit lost with the bike setting and what...
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