FLAT TRACK
BARCELONA SUPERPRESTIGIO INDOOR SHORT TRACK
DECEMBER 12, 2015
PALAU SANT JORDI STADIUM / BARCELONA, SPAIN
P190
Baker said. "I've been trying to
change that mentality to where
you don't have to come out and
be so aggressive, because after
you go through five surgeries in
two years, it makes you think a
faster time," Baker said. "But
when somebody's right on you,
you have to kind of take a lower
line and just protect. And that
protection line is actually harder
to get around the racetrack."
It was mentally draining to
maintain that focus.
"That's where the aspect of
experience comes in, no matter
what kind of racing you do, is to
be under pressure and not make
a mistake."
Baker put his performance
down to the experience of miss-
ing so much racing due to injury
over the past couple of seasons.
"Last year, I came out like
I wanted to set the world on
fire in qualifying and practice.
I don't know who I was trying
to impress other than myself,"
Ever stylish, Mees takes the heat race win but that's as good as it got.
little bit more about what you do.
It only counts at the end, what
happens at the beginning and
in practice doesn't really mat-
ter. If you don't let the pressure
get to you of trying to perform at
It was a frustrating
night for Alex
Márquez—he led
home his brother
for a heat win but
numerous crashes
later on put him
out of the final.
