After sinking to 20th on Friday afternoon, Valentino Rossi rallied back into the top ten - thus securing direct access to Qualifying 2 - during Saturday morning practice for the Spanish MotoGP. The Italian sounded downbeat yesterday evening, saying he was 'never fast' during the opening day and had battled a repeat of last season's rear tyre overheating/endurance issues. The Monster Yamaha rider then spent much of FP3 working to improve the set-up of his M1 before fitting new rubber and breaking into the all-important top ten with an eventual eighth (+0.324s) on the timesheets. "Today we improved because we modified the setting of the bike, and the team did good work, because...
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