Sepang (Malaysia),
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The Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team
continued to book progress during the first three-day Official MotoGP Test of
2016. After yesterday‘s encouraging 1-2 finish, Jorge Lorenzo
and Valentino Rossi were motivated to proceed with today‘s
scheduled testing and both riders improved their times compared to yesterday by
over half a second.
Lorenzo once again set the pace
early in the session, taking over the top spot in the provisional rankings on
his third lap. Despite not feeling a hundred per cent fit, he kept a strong pace
going and even a small crash in turn five, which left him unhurt, could not slow
him down. The five-time World Champion was able to make big strides as his team
tried to find the right combination for the 2016 YZR-M1, the
new electronics and the Michelin tyres. He concluded the day securing second
place with a best lap of 2‘00.155, just 0.060s off today‘s best
time, which was set on a hard rear tyre after Michelin withdrew the soft spec
rear tyre option as a safety precaution following a crash from Loris Baz.
Teammate Rossi also had a positive second day at the
Malaysian test. As the session was red flagged for the majority of the morning
following Baz‘s crash, the Doctor was fully committed to making up for lost
time. When he returned to the track he made a good step with his set-up and
consistently improved his times, dropping under his best lap from yesterday by
almost 0.7s. He spent the afternoon testing various tyre options and completed a
total of 54 laps, setting a personal best of 2‘01.021s for
sixth place.
VALENTINO ROSSI
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I‘m quite happy, it was a good day. At first
it was hard, because there was a lot of work to do, but I‘m quite satisfied,
especially because we improved the setting of the bike a lot. My pace and my
best lap improved quite significantly, so for this reason it‘s been a good day.
We have a lot of important new data that will help us decide which way we should
follow. It‘s sure that we will have a lot of things to do. I tried some tyres in
afternoon, some were good, some things were bad, but I think also Michelin did a
good job. At the moment I‘m more on the bike that‘s more similar to the 2015
model. Tomorrow we will try them both another time and maybe we will also try
the other bike at another track, like Phillip Island, and after that we‘ll
decide.
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