Constructive test session despite rain for Lecuona and Vierge at Misano

“On Thursday the weather wasn’t as bad as expected luckily. We found good feeling in the end, but it was a tricky first day. We struggled a little more than expected early on, without really understanding why. But after making some changes to the bike for the afternoon session, things went better and my feeling improved, particularly once we tested a new swingarm. I made many laps with a new set of tyres and was able to regain strong feeling, so I was pleased with that. On day two, we were not as lucky as Thursday with the weather because we were only able to complete a few laps in the dry early on before the rain started. In the afternoon we had a little more dry track time and could compare swingarm's specs. We didn’t have chance to make many laps, but we were able to collect solid data for the engineers to analyse. I feel the work’s been constructive, especially in terms of the items we tested yesterday, so now we have two more weeks to work on the data we’ve collected and then we will see when we come back here to Misano in just over two weeks’ time.”

“It has been a challenging test for us, to be honest, and I struggled to set any really fast times. Thursday was not easy, as we also spent quite a lot of time in the garage making changes to the bike. We tested a new swingarm, but I’m not sure yet whether it’s better or not – we need more time to understand this – and on Friday the weather didn’t help, forcing us to stop even earlier than yesterday. But we’ve worked hard, also trying some set-ups in wet conditions, and now have a lot more data to analyse before coming back here for the races.”