MotoGP championship leader Valentino Rossi admits he has plenty of work ahead of him to get on the pace at Jerez this weekend. Rossi, who has won two of the three races so far this year, struggled in free practice on Friday in Spain. He got off to a solid start with sixth place in the first session, 0.7s off the pace of Yamaha teammate Jorge Lorenzo, but was over a second from Lorenzo’s best time in the afternoon. “It was a difficult practice, especially this afternoon,” Rossi admitted. “I decided to use just the harder option and work with just that tyre, because we thought that was the best tyre for the race. “Unfortunately the performance is very low and the lap time isn’t...
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