The Spanish GP got off to a slow start for Repsol Honda rider Marc Marquez who finished the opening day of practice on Friday down in 15th place overall.
With rain affecting the opening session, the reigning world champion set the fifth best time overall, but in the second hour he opted to end the session on the same set of medium tyres that he had used for the entire session, in order to take advantage of every minute of dry time available by continuing to work on his race pace.
“Today we focused particularly on working for the race,” the Spaniard explained. “Of course if you look at the position, we're far away, but in reality there are already many positives we can count on."
"This afternoon we spent the whole session on the same tyres and in the end we decided not to go for a time attack because we were concentrating on trying two very different setups and it was important to decide on one of them."
"We chose one that has many positive aspects and some that we want to improve, so tomorrow we'll concentrate on finding the best compromise to get better and better before Sunday.”
The weather forecasts for the rest of the weekend are good.
