Yamaha tops Jerez Test

Jorge Lorenzo

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP's Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi successfully concluded the one-day MotoGP test in Jerez today, finishing first and second in today's session times.

After a brilliant race from Jorge Lorenzo yesterday, that saw him take the 55th victory of his career and teammate Valentino Rossi claim his 200th career podium, the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team returned to the Circuito de Jerez de la Frontera today for an official MotoGP test. Lorenzo and Rossi spent the extra track time usefully and were able to improve their set-ups to finish first and second in today's session times.

Still elated from his stunning victory, Lorenzo had every reason to smile today as it was also his 28th birthday. Despite the fact that he was focusing on improving the set up of his YZR-M1, it wasn't long after he hit the track that he moved into second place. He concluded his morning stint by topping the timesheets with a 1'38.516 lap, which remained unbeaten for the rest of the day by all but himself.

During his afternoon outing he dropped another fastest time of 1'38,508, which only his teammate got close to.

Rossi also made strides today. Similar to his teammate he steadily booked progress as he focused on improving his setting compared to yesterday. Though he was satisfied with his third place in the race, the Doctor is always looking for improvement and spent most of today's session testing small details of the set-up he hadn't been able to try during last weekend. He ended the day in second place with a fastest lap of 1'38,550, 0,042s off his teammate's time.

Jerez Test Results

Pos	Rider	Num	Nation	Team	Constructor	Time
1	LORENZO Jorge	99	SPA	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	1'38.508
2	ROSSI Valentino	46	ITA	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	1'38.550
3	CRUTCHLOW Cal	35	GBR	CWM LCR Honda	Honda	1'38.814
4	ESPARGARO Aleix	41	SPA	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	1'38.890
5	MARQUEZ Marc	93	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	1'38.968
6	SMITH Bradley	38	GBR	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	1'39.339
7	HERNANDEZ Yonny	68	COL	Pramac Racing	Ducati	1'39.357
8	REDDING Scott	45	GBR	Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	1'39.370
9	VINALES Maverick	25	SPA	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	1'39.475
10	ESPARGARO Pol	44	SPA	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	1'39.654
11	BAUTISTA Alvaro	19	SPA	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	1'39.766
12	BRADL Stefan	6	GER	Athina Forward Racing	Forward Yamaha	1'39.887
13	PETRUCCI Danilo	9	ITA	Pramac Racing	Ducati	1'39.892
14	HAYDEN Nicky	69	USA	Aspar MotoGP Team	Honda	1'39.909
15	LAVERTY Eugene	50	IRE	Aspar MotoGP Team	Honda	1'40.101
16	BAZ Loris	76	FRA	Athina Forward Racing	Forward Yamaha	1'40.186
17	MILLER Jack	43	AUS	CWM LCR Honda	Honda	1'40.248
18	BARBERA Hector	8	SPA	Avintia Racing	Ducati	1'40.260
19	AOYAMA Hiroshi	7	JPN	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	1'40.342
20	ABRAHAM Karel	17	CZE	AB Motoracing	Honda	1'40.654
21	DI MEGLIO Mike	63	FRA	Avintia Racing	Ducati	1'41.085
22	MELANDRI Marco	33	ITA	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	1'41.825