Vale, however, suffered a problem on Day 2, but today they were able to solve the issue and we found a good improvement, resulting in a 1’54.6s. That was one of the most fun straights of my life! But I feel I have potential and I’m close to the pace of the top guys, just a couple of tenths per lap down on them. The team is pleased and I’m pleased with how the day went, but as I said yesterday I can’t be pleased with how the race panned out. A little further down the timesheets, Jerez winner Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) ended the day in seventh after 75 laps, and set his quickest on the bike that wildcard and test rider Stefan Bradl rode in the race with carbon fibre chassis additions. The riders’ feedback has been positive, even though the condition of the track has never been good during these three days. For me, also the race pace is quite good, although I think we will need something more to be able to try to fight. Another tiny gap put Tito Rabat in P17, just 0.005 off Rossi, with teammate Karel Abraham only 0.014 in further arrears. But the third row and 9th place isn’t so bad, and I think I can have a good race anyway. There are still some details that we need to improve but we are in the right direction.”, “All things considered, I’m glad about these days of testing. In addition to being fast over a single lap, I think our race pace is good, so I hope to be able to fight for a great result. At Honda, one big focus for Crutchlow was the start; clutch feel and electronics. We came here to confirm the good points we found in Sepang. But today we already closed the gap by a lot, as we put it all together, with all the staff. So far this year I have only had six days on the bike and to be honest I feel very comfortable with it. Given his CV before he even made it to the world championship, that’s no surprise. Tomorrow it will be a good race with a mix of names at the front.”. Deze pagina is voor het laatst bewerkt op 1 nov 2019 om 20:37. Let’s see what we can do there.”. But finally, it has been positive because I was much faster with the ‘race condition bike’ than yesterday. By the end of Q2 though, it was a familiar name at the top: Friday’s fastest, Jorge Navarro. On Sunday they focused on back-to-back comparisons, and working on fairings as homologation date draws near. Overall, I think we have a better pace than what the position says because we just stuck with the medium compound tyres tonight. “Today we’ve done a full day of work, testing a lot of things and completing a lot of laps. We have been improving little by little and finding what we’re looking for to go forward, lap after lap. To be honest it has been really impressive, everybody is very excited and committed to the team. I went to a more drastic setting than I did over the race weekend and I felt maybe a bit more comfortable. Starting in the fourth row isn’t ideal but it is where we will start. Franco Morbidelli started on pole position and was followed by Pramac Ducati's Jack Miller who had a good start off the line. “Again, we would like to apologise to Fabio Quartararo and Yamaha Petronas. But I’m not worried because my race pace was there, I was feeling close to the top.”, “We had a programme for today. The most important part is that we have prepared well for the race and tomorrow we can understand our level compared to everyone else’s. "As I say the step I am now in my learning journey, being in the top five will be a huge result,” he said. As always when testing, some solutions return better results than others. The aim is to get everything 100% clear when we come back for the first race. When I had the crash I took a fair bit of impact to my body, but I am thankfully fine apart from a little pain. After 48 laps ‘Petrux’ did a best of 1m54.953s and, despite being down in P8, teammate Andrea Dovizioso was close with a 1m11.205s after 53 laps. The conditions will be demanding at Sepang and we have a lot of work to do, so it will be a big challenge for Franco [Morbidelli] and Fabio [Quartararo].”. We found a very small improvement, so we still need to get better with the bike. Next up is Danilo Petrucci in P7 after the Italian was fastest on Friday, and despite a crash he has the Jerez Test’s fastest rider Takaaki Nakagami and COTA winner Alex Rins just behind him on the third row. Can Quartararo get one over Marquez at Phillip Island…? At the end of the day we tried a time attack and it went very well. He was just ahead of the second Alma Pramac Racing machine of rookie Francesco Bagnaia. I didn’t know how my arm would react after my operation, but things went very well. Teammate Danilo Petrucci, though, was testing electronics and test rider Michele Pirro had new chassis parts and settings to try, with the fairing he used at the KymiRing seen out at Misano on Thursday. We have taken a big step forward since yesterday. It’s true that it wasn’t very, very hot, so we’ll have to see. Petronas Yamaha SRT rider Fabio Quartararo secured his third win of the season in the Catalan Grand Prix, re-taking the lead in the championship standings. I was able to smile a bit more in the box this afternoon with the improvement we made. Starting from the front row, Rossi crashed out of the Catalan GP dropping by 50 points in the championship standings. But we need to improve. They tested chassis parts, chassis settings and some engine parts. Op zaterdag 4 mei 2019 wordt hij de jongste MotoGP rijder ooit ( vorige was Marc Marquez) die de pole-positie behaalde tijdens de Qualificatie en dit op het circuit van Jerez de la Frontera te Spanje. Signed to compete in the Moto3 World Championship for 2015, Quartararo had to receive special dispensation just to compete in the first round in Qatar as he wasn’t yet 16-years-old, the minimum age for the series. “It was another positive test day for us, and step-by-step we are really making improvements on the bike.