Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Keep Up Pace at Second Day of Sepang Shake Down2016-02-02 13:59The 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. The extended imagery from today's test session (day 2) at the Sepang International Circuit (Sepang, Malaysia) is available on www.yamahamotogp.com Download MASSIMO MEREGALLI MASSIMO MEREGALLI TEAM DIRECTOR We were glad to hear that Baz was OK, but unfortunately today‘s testing has been influenced by his accident as we lost more than one hour due to the red flag on track. Then also Jorge‘s crash didn‘t allow him to finalise the plan we had in mind, but anyway Jorge managed to compare the two bikes he had available and to understand which way to proceed. On the other side of the garage Vale managed to complete his schedule working on the front tyres and his feeling at the end of the day was quite positive. Tomorrow he will only have to fine-tune the bike and then move forward with the race simulation. Jorge, once he will find the the good compromise with the balance of the bike in the morning, will also be able to prepare for the long run to get all the possible information we needed from this test. JORGE LORENZO JORGE LORENZO Today, after Baz‘s crash we couldn‘t use the soft rear anymore, so I had to adapt my riding. It‘s been a little bit difficult, but we still kept having a good feeling apart from the crash that I had with the hot track temperature and the hard front, which looks to be a little bit worse for me. In the afternoon, when we put in the softer tyre, I regained the feeling again that I had yesterday and was able to keep being the fastest rider on the track. Even with the hard tyre we could improve my time of yesterday by half a second, this is a good point. We keep having big margin over the rest and this is very encouraging. VALENTINO ROSSI VALENTINO ROSSI 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. DOWNLOAD MotoGP™ Official Test Sepang 2nd February Combined Standings Days 1-2 Download MotoGP™ Official Test Sepang 2nd February Lap by Lap 18h Download Nome gp SEPANG MOTOGP TEST - DAY 2 02/02/2016 1. D. PETRUCCI OCTO PRAMAC RACING 2'00.095 2. J. LORENZO MOVISTAR YAMAHA MOTOGP 2'00.155 3. H. BARBERA AVINTIA RACING 2'00.387 4. M. MARQUEZ REPSOL HONDA TEAM 2'00.843 5. C. CRUTCHLOW LCR HONDA 2'00.899 6. V. ROSSI MOVISTAR YAMAHA MOTOGP 2'01.021 7. S. REDDING OCTO PRAMAC RACING 2'01.049 8. A. IANNONE DUCATI TEAM 2'01.052 9. C. STONER DUCATI TEAM 2'01.103 10. B. SMITH MONSTER YAMAHA TECH3 2'01.107 11. M. VIÑALES TEAM SUZUKI ECSTAR 2'01.421 12. D. PEDROSA REPSOL HONDA TEAM 2'01.475 13. Y. HERNANDEZ ASPAR MOTOGP TEAM 2'01.644 14. A. DOVIZIOSO DUCATI TEAM 2'01.723 15. P. ESPARGARÒ MONSTER YAMAHA TECH3 2'01.992 16. A. ESPARGARÒ TEAM SUZUKI ECSTAR 2'02.092 17. T. RABAT EG 0,0 MARC VDS 2'02.328 18. S. BRADL APRILIA RACING TEAM GRESINI 2'02.372 19. L. BAZ AVINTIA RACING 2'02.611 20. K. NAKASUGA YAMAHA TEST TEAM 2'02.691 21. A. BAUTISTA APRILIA RACING TEAM GRESINI 2'02.876 Source: Yamaha Motor Racing Click here to visit our forums to discuss this story |
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