Lorenzo tired but happy after three days of testing

Jorge Lorenzo’s final afternoon session was played out in dramatic fashion, the World Champion completing a 20 lap race distance run under dark skies split by forked lightening. The Mallorcan kept a consistent pace throughout, confirming the improvements of his M1 and, as with his team mate, lapping consistently under last year’s race times and beating his pole lap of last season’s Malaysian GP race by 0.534 seconds.

Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing Rider, 7th, 2’01.003, 48 laps
“I feel quite tired, after two and a half days of testing I’ve finished with a long 20 lap run. The results have been quite good, we had a very consistent pace and I was happy to have improved some things with the bike. I think we’ve made some big steps forward with traction and feel, although we still need to improve our lap time.”

Wilco Zeelenberg – Yamaha Factory Racing Team Manager
“It was a good day today to wrap up, I am satisfied with the results of the long run. Jorge was very consistent and the grip didn’t drop that much towards the end, he kept a good pace which is a strong point for him and important that we didn’t lose that. Of course we saw our competitors were very fast this morning but it’s only the second test of the year, I think Qatar will be a very different story. We’ve improved the package compared to the last time we were here racing here which was our goal. Of course we have more work to do a nd we will continue to work on it.”

Source: Yamaha Racing