Strong start in sunny Misano for Jorge Lorenzo

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP‘s Jorge Lorenzo built up a fast pace at start to the ‘Grand Prix di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini’ weekend, clocking the fourth fastest time on the first day of practice at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli.

Lorenzo made a great start this morning and was quick to find a solid pace around the Misano Circuit. He used the 45 minutes of free practice to find a good set up for the track and worked hard as the times dropped towards the end of the session. With less than half a second covering the top ten in FP1, he secured a top5 placement with a 1’33.774s best lap.

Feeling comfortable with the setting he and his team had established in the morning, the defending World Champion found a good rhythm in the afternoon. Though he had already used his second set of tyres midway through FP2, leaving him with no spare tyres at the end, he was still able to make a solid improvement over the two sessions. The Mallorcan took more than 0.7s off his time with a 1’33.056s lap at the end of the session, to finish in fourth place in the combined standings.

JORGE LORENZO
I‘m very happy because finally, after a long while, I feel comfortable again with the bike‘s setting and I can ride like I want and keep up a constant pace. We decided to change the front and rear tyre really quickly during the practice, so we didn‘t have the advantage to put in a new tyre at the end of the session like the rest of the riders. Because of that we couldn‘t be a little bit faster, but anyway I had a good pace and good feelings. Let‘s try to make another step tomorrow.

Source: Movistar Yamaha