Though he only qualified tenth while his brother was on Pole, Deniz was quick to mount a challenge. “I think I was only tenth at the first corner,” he explained, with an earnest expression briefly replacing the huge grin he had worn since getting off the KTM RC 250 R. “Then I started to push, I was feeling really good and I was faster than the others. I finished the first lap in third place but I knew I was quicker than Can and Kevin in front.”