"It's too cold, wrong calendar"

Valentino Rossi runs into two crashes on Friday in Valencia and points the finger at the MotoGP calendar: "Here it is too cold in this period".

The last MotoGP 2019 weekend in Valencia does not start under a lucky star for Valentino Rossi. He falls in both free practice sessions, betrayed by the low temperatures of the asphalt. "Here it is too cold at this time of year", He commented at the end of Friday. The same asphalt that will test Lewis Hamilton on December 9th in the vehicle exchange with the Doctor.

14th place in the combined classification of the first day of tests, on a track that never brought luck to Valentino Rossi. "Here in Valencia it is always very dangerous on the right side of the tire, you have to be careful, especially at this low temperature". In the morning he tried the soft at the front but pushed too much on the first fastest lap. "I made a mistake a bit stupid, I had the soft front but on the first lap I slipped, it was a quiet fall. In the afternoon we tested the average for the race, after seven eight laps the front closed. I have a lot better, I didn't do the time attack. There is a second to remove and tomorrow it will be essential to take a nice lap to enter the top ten".

If in the first fall the cold tire played a trick, it cannot be said the same in FP2. "The incident occurred in this disturbing turn to the right (curve 10, ed), preceded by many left hand corners. It's not the tires' fault. But we shouldn't drive here at this time. Now we should run to Sepang". The asphalt temperature in FP1 was only 9 degrees, slightly higher than in the afternoon. "Saturday we have to be smarter in the choice of tires. And we have to do a quick lap in FP3 in the morning, I have to get into the top ten if I want to get into Q2 right away. It will be very important, because I need a good starting position".