MotoGP Argentina: Valentino Rossi "The dirty track doesn't help us, we have to improve step by step"

Valentino Rossi MotoGP 2016 Day1 GP Argentina Yamaha Movistar – Valentino Rossi he closed the first day of free practice in 7th place, 9 tenths behind Marc Marquez's Honda. The Pesaro rider, despite the heavy gap from the two official Hondas, is the first of the Yamahas, and this is enough to understand the difficulties that the house of the three tuning forks is encountering on this track. However, these difficulties for Yamaha were predictable, the M1 always suffers on tracks with little grip, Let's see if the situation will improve tomorrow and the day after tomorrow when the track will be rubberised.

“It was a tough day for everyone – said Valentino Rossi – due to track conditions. The track was really dirty, it improved in the afternoon but it was still slippery and the temperatures were also very high, so it was difficult to maintain the race pace. For now we lack grip, we slide and the front isn't working very well either. We have to work, so from now on we have to progress step by step and we hope that the track will improve tomorrow and that it won't rain, but the temperatures will drop."