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Photography Gold & Goose
Movistar
Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo topped the timesheets at the first mid-seaon MotoGP teat
at Jerez on Monday May 4. On his 28th birthday, Lorenzo, fresh from
a dominant display at the previous weekend’s Spanish MotoGP in which he took
pole position, a new lap record and a runaway race win, ended the test with a
best time of 1.38.516s after completing 52 laps.
“We had nothing special to test, but we fixed the basis of
the bike for the future,” Lorenzo said. “I think we found out how we can take
profit of some adjustments, so we are quite confident for the next Grand Prix!”
Second went
to Lorenzo’s teammate Valentino Rossi, just four hundredths off the Spaniard
after 66 laps of the Jerez circuit. Neither Yamaha rider had anything new to
test, instead the duo focused mainly on machine set-up. Rossi headed Cal
Crutchlow (1:38.814), who spent his 64 laps concentrating
on new suspension and electronics on his Honda RC213V.
Aleix
Espargaro (1:38.890) and his Team Suzuki Ecstar GSX-RR was fourth fastest after
64 laps as he searched for a solution to the chatter that plagued him
throughout the Spanish MotoGP weekend. He bested World Champion Marc Marquez (1:38.968)
in fifth, who only completed four laps on track. Marquez briefly tested a new
swingarm but called time early to protect his broken finger.
“I put in a
few laps basically just to test out a swingarm,” Marquez said. “HRC wanted us
to analyze it to find out if we could use it in the coming races. We have
obtained a lot of information for further development with things that have
been a little bit more difficult, for example corner entry.”
Rounding out
the top 10 at the Jerez test was Tech3 Yamaha’s Bradley Smith, Pramac Racing’s
Yonny Hernandez, Marc VDS 0.0 Honda rider Scott Redding, Maverick Vinales on
the second Suzuki GSX-RR and Smith’s teammate Pol Espargaro.
