Fifth position for Marc Márquez to kick off German GP

Tomorrow we’ll try and take another little step with the setup, because I’m not yet able to make the bike slide like I want

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Marc Márquez finished second on the timesheets in the first session ahead of the German GP.

The World Championship leader improved his best time by half a second in FP2 and ended the day in fifth position.

Dani Pedrosa was fourteenth in the morning and, although he improved his time by three tenths in FP2, closed the day twentieth.

Marc Márquez

It was a good first day, even if our opponents are all closer compared to last year. The weekend will be completely dry, so things on Sunday should once again be very tight. Anyway, we started very well and were able to keep a good pace on both the soft tyre in the morning and the harder one in the afternoon, which is positive. Tomorrow we’ll try and take another little step with the setup, because I’m not yet able to make the bike slide like I want. I want to find a way to do that, as it’s important at this track. The grip isn’t the best and tyre consumption seems quite high, so we’ll have to try and manage that aspect well.

Dani Pedrosa

Today the lap times were very fast from the start, but I didn’t have the right feeling to stay there with the others. I struggled with the fork setting and wasn’t able to be quick enough in the corners. We didn’t manage to take a step during the two sessions, so we’ll have to try something different with the setup tomorrow.