After the first day of practice at Misano, Jorge Lorenzo leads the way for the MotoGP riders. The 2010 MotoGP champ set a 1'33.929 laptime around the Misano circuit today, beating out Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa.
Lorenzo struggled during the morning session, but the Yamaha team came out with a new set up during the second free practice session to top the timesheets.
"I feel much more comfortable on the bike this afternoon with the changes we made," Lorenzo said. "The setting we used is very similar to the Mugello one, and I won the race there. To be honest, I didn't expect such a big change because we improved more than one second. We are now quite close to a victory I think. Casey and Dani are still fast but at least we are there with them."
Spies, on the other hand, couldn't find a faster pace in FP2. The Yamaha rider was the only rider to drop time during the afternoon session, finishing the day .2 seconds behind the pacesetter. Spies was the fifth fastest rider for the day.
"Not bad today, it wasn't a great second session but we had to try a lot of things," Spies said. "We've been working a little bit on rider position since before Indy and we came up with a good direction for me. We tried to go more in that direction this afternoon but it was too much, so we lost a bit of the second session on it. Other than that we tried all the tyres we wanted to and went pretty fast with quite a lot of laps on them. Overall a positive day, we tried some stuff that worked and some stuff that didn't. We need to work harder for tomorrow and improve some grip levels but the overall feel and speed I'm happy with."
