Challenging start to Aragon weekend for Jorge Lorenzo

The first free practice sessions got underway today for this weekend’s Gran Premio Movistar de Aragón at the Motorland Aragón circuit in Spain.

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP riders Jorge Lorenzo and teammate Valentino Rossi faced a challenging kick-off to the weekend with a number of set up challenges to resolve.

With track conditions very different to when the team tested at Aragón earlier in the year, there was no advantage to be had from the taken data.

Local hero Lorenzo was able to rise to third in the morning session, just over 0.5 seconds from the top but dropped to seventh in the afternoon practice, increasing the distance to first to 0.684 seconds. The results leave him in seventh in the combined times ahead of tomorrow’s sessions.

Jorge Lorenzo – 7th | 1’48.969 | 17 Laps
“We are using a completely different tyre to the rest of the riders. Valentino didn’t like so much the hard front, I don’t know if he tried the soft in the last laps but for me it was better with the softer option. Tomorrow we will do some more laps to see if it will be constant for the duration of the race. We didn’t start in the best way possible, we are very far from the front, but the thing that worries us is that we are far from my ideal time here from last year so we have margin to improve. I feel great physically and mentally but the bike needs to improve a bit. We are going to test a different set up for tomorrow so I’m looking forward to continuing.”

Source: Yamaha MotoGP