Repsol Honda Team riders complete the first day of the Italian Grand Prix in sixth and twentieth place, respectively.
Marc Márquez was the fastest rider in FP1, a session in which Jorge Lorenzo finished eighteenth -9 tenths off his teammate.
In the second Free Practice session, Márquez improved his best lap by half a second and took sixth place.
Lorenzo also lowered his best time, by four tenths, and closed the day twentieth.
Marc Márquez | 6th
“Today we worked just with the tyres for the race. I am still a little bit sick from yesterday and also the bike wasn’t 100% either, hopefully a good night’s rest will help us both to be back at 100% tomorrow. Even like this we aren’t far and we just need to keep pushing tomorrow. It’s Friday and we didn’t put a new tyre in at the end so we are still feeling good.”
Jorge Lorenzo | 20th
“Of course we can’t be happy with 20th, it’s not a good position to be in. But today at the end of FP2 everyone fitted the soft and I stayed working with harder tyre because I feel we will be able to profit more tomorrow morning. My pace is not so far from everyone else but we still need to improve our one lap pace a bit. I think we could have been top ten with a new tyre. Tomorrow we will see.”
