'With motorcycles you have a lot less time to read, so I think that anyway the riders have to take his own decision, but it can be a small help' - Valentino Rossi.
'If it is flag to flag it can be a problem, but I will start with the new one because I feel good, but we always try to use also the other one to have a reference' - Valentino Rossi.
'It's good for me that we aren't taking a break and go immediately to race again, because I feel very eager to race and to continue my racing development programme' - Alex Rins.
'About Zarco, I started to think that he is not a bad guy, it's just that he don't understand the size between one bike and the other' - Valentino Rossi.
Cal Crutchlow 'happy' with fourth, enjoys an absorbing late dice with Marquez; feels his one mistake was to show his hand to the reigning world champion too soon.
'In the last lap I found Rins at corner six that was lapped and we nearly crashed for passing him; anyway I lost Valentino but we arrived very close' - Danilo Petrucci.