Suzuki rookie Maverick Vinales slashed his Sepang lap time by 2.2s during last week's MotoGP test. That put the young Spaniard twelfth on the timesheets, just two places and less than half-a-second from experienced team-mate Aleix Espargaro. “I'm very satisfied. We worked really well. We started the test in 2m 3s and we finished in 2m 0s. So we are happy. We are also quite surprised. The bike works really well with the soft tyre and with the medium tyre, so I think we can have a really good result if we improve the engine. “I know the bike better now and I tried to understand the tyres because in Moto2 you had 12 laps to make a really good lap, but here if you don't make it in the...
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