One of the biggest questions posed by Michelin's first appearance in a MotoGP qualifying and race sessions since 2008 is its tyres' ability to come up to working temperature quickly, and how that will affect riders' strategies. Compared to previous years in which riders used Bridgestone rubber that could take between three to five corners to achieve full working temperature, several riders were still not completely sure how to approach 2016's first qualifying shootout. Pol Espargaro was one of those, who, at the close of Friday, admitted that he may use the end of FP4 as a qualifying test run, to see whether he can extract maximum from his set-up in just one or two flying laps. “Because...
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