Movistar Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi has left his mechanics with a lot to do this evening after a big crash at the Valencia MotoGP test left his 2017-spec M1 seriously damaged.
Rossi was at the top of the timesheets halfway through the day but was spat off the bike and didn’t improve his 1’30.950. He returned later in the day but says there is a lot of work to do tomorrow.
“It was not a small crash, it was a big crash, Fortunately, I'm ok, I was not injured - but the bike was quite damaged, and this made us lose more than half of the day,” said Rossi, speaking at the track.
"We have just two front tyres soft, the tyre that we used in the race - but unfortunately we have to try to make more work on the new bike. We tried with the hard, but I don't finish the second lap. Now the guys work on the bike, repair for tomorrow - I think tomorrow we have some work to do.
"And the rest was not so bad, also because the laptime was quite good, I am in second position so it is positive for the first day. About the chassis, the first feeling was good but unfortunately I did just seven-eight laps and when we start to work on the bike, I crashed. So remains a lot to do.
"The engine is the first evolution of the engine, but sincerely speaking I expected a little bit more, we are not fantastic, I think we have to work still."
