Valentino Rossi says he was impressed with new teammate Maverick Vinales' Yamaha test debut in Valencia, dubbing the Spaniard's Wednesday benchmark a "huge laptime". Vinales, who joins Yamaha after two years with Suzuki, spent the two post-season test days at Valencia riding the 2016-spec M1 bike. The Spaniard was quickest on Tuesday by 0.020s over Rossi - and then set the overall best time of the test on Wednesday with a 1m29.975s. "He was quite impressive already from yesterday, and today also more," Rossi said of his newcomer teammate. "He was able to do a [1m]29[s], that's a huge laptime. "I think it was a great debut for him." Yamaha has "a lot...
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