Mandalika.- The Barcelona rider finished with the fourth fastest time in the MotoGP premiere at the new track on the island of Lombok, in Indonesia. Aleix Rins stopped the clock in 1.33.058, almost six tenths of the reference established by Pol Espargaró at the end of the day.
The Suzuki rider was able to complete 72 laps of the new track, which he described as exceptional.
"The circuit is incredible," he said, after the problems with the morning mud were solved.
"Apart from the fact that this morning I had very little grip, I liked the track a lot. Hopefully tomorrow it will be cleaned a little more. The problem is that you can't get out of a very fine line," he said, agreeing with his teammate Joan Mir in that sense.
After the rains of the night, the dust from the works that are being done on the track muddied the track, filling it with dirt.
"There are stones that are thrown, and that made it a bit dangerous, it's almost worse than motocross," he illustrated.
"This morning the track was very dangerous, but in the end we all lapped and it dried out, so the times could be lowered," he said.
