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First runs at Mugello for Marc Márquez and Jorge Lorenzo

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.”

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