Jorge Lorenzo – Position: 6th Time: 1’23.224 Laps: 30
“Today wasn’t a good session for me and I didn’t feel so good on the bike. This isn’t one of my favourite tracks and it’s very different to the ones where I’ve won lately, so I think I need to make some changes to the way I’m riding the bike. I was fast at the start but then we didn’t improve from the middle to the end and everyone else did. We have some work to do and our goal is to be competitive by Sunday.”

Valentino Rossi – Position: 7th Time: 1’23.244 Laps: 29
“I am really happy today, especially because I am a lot more agile on the bike than I was in the tests. I feel good and this track is helping me because a lot of it turns to the left. I am feeling quite confident on the bike and also my shoulder is good and not giving me problems. Now I have some pain in the leg and ankle but it’s not too bad, I was able to do some laps in a row and I was quite fast so things seem okay. Now we will have to wait until tomorrow morning to see how the leg is and whether it has swelled overnight or developed any problems.”

Wilco Zeelenberg – Team Manager
“It wasn’t a great start for us, Jorge is struggling for feel and he can’t turn so well, compared to 2009 here he’s not in such good shape. We need to compare the data and find out the differences, which are only small, but small differences always matter at this track because it’s quite short. Hopefully if we can improve confidence in the front end Jorge will be much quicker, especially on the slow corners of which there are many here.”

Davide Brivio – Team Manager
“Once again Valentino has surprised everyone! After missing four races and not being completely fit this can be considered a very good session. From a team point of view it was like he had never been away, working on the suspension and searching for the best set-up. His physical condition isn’t too bad, a bit more difficult in the right hand corners and okay on the left, but overall it is a lot better than we expected. We’re very happy and now we’ll see where we can get to tomorrow.”

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