After just a few days of rest, the MotoGP World Championship is back in action this weekend for the second back-to-back round of the season, this time in the sunny South of Spain. With decent temperatures, which have been increasing in the course of the day, the WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team already got some solid work done on Friday, but aims to move further ahead.
Although he collected some decent points last Sunday in Portugal, Andrea Dovizioso is still missing the perfect feeling aboard his Yamaha YZR-M1 and started this morning’s FP1 with less than one second from the top in P19. In Free Practice two this afternoon, which was notably warm than the first session in the morning, he lowered his fastest lap by 0.797 seconds, but concluded the day just in the top 20 after missing out on the top by 1.214 seconds in the ultra-close premier class.
On the other side of the WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team garage, Darryn Binder could take some profit of having ridden his MotoGP machine at the Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto already last November. Despite being more than three seconds slower than the top in FP1, the South African caught up quickly in the second Free Practice to eventually make up 2.464 seconds compared to his morning time, plus one position in the overall standings.
The WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team and both, Dovizioso and Binder are now already looking forward to Saturday, where they can try further ideas in Free Practice three at 09:55 local time and Free Practice four at 13:30 ahead of the two Qualifying sessions that start at 14:10.
