Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo arrive at Phillip Island for this weekend's MotoGP race full of uncertainty about the performance of the Michelin tyres on a track where testing was full of crashes in winter testing. That Friday in February, the final of three days of testing at the Australian circuit, saw 13 crashes on a day when the temperatures collapsed, although they were not as low as they are now. At 10am, the sun was out and it was 12 degrees, but some forecasts predict it could go as low as six degrees when it gets dark. On top of that, as of right now, the majority of the forecasts indicate a very high chance of rain for Friday (90 percent on average) and not so high...
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