Factory Yamaha's Valentino Rossi has topped the timesheets on day two of MotoGP testing at Jerez but was pushed hard by team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and Britain's Cal Crutchlow on the Monster Yamaha.
Rossi's lap of 1'39.525 was on 15 one-thousandths ahead of Lorenzo while Crutchlow, who is riding a satellite YZR-M1 some 18 months behind the works bikes in terms of development, was just three one-hundredths further back.
"Today we make a big modify to the setting. But I need to improve a lot. On the angle in the corner, I am still not at the maximum, so I have to work a lot on my style for try to use the M1 at 100 per cent," said The Doctor, speaking at Jerez.
"Today, I did 28 laps with the first tyre - not in a row but more than a race distance. After that, we change the tyre and make the rest of the laps, half race with a good laptime, so it looks like the rhythm is good.
"Is possible we make a race simulation tomorrow. The two important things are the chassis and if that is good, we make a long run."
Dani Pedrosa, on the first Repsol Honda, was also within sniffing distance of The Doctor on a 1'39.630 while Andrea Dovizoso was fifth on the Ducati while complaining of understeer.
Alvaro Bautista was, you guessed it, in sixth place but suffered a crash at the end of the day which saw him fracture two fingers on his left hand. Marc Marquez was seventh and 1.1s off the pace while Stefan Bradl, Andrea Iannone and Nicky Hayden rounded out the top ten.
Bradley Smith finished just behind Hector Barbera in 12th place while Ben Spies, who is still carrying a shoulder injury, was down in 18th. Michael Laverty finished the day in 24th place.
Jerez MotoGP test day two - conditions dry
1 ROSSI, Valentino Yamaha Factory Racing Team 1:39.525 29 / 46 1:53.166
2 LORENZO, Jorge Yamaha Factory Racing Team 1:39.540 0.015 0.015 22 / 34 1:40.442
3 CRUTCHLOW, Cal Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1:39.574 0.049 0.034 29 / 44 1:40.097
4 PEDROSA, Dani Repsol Honda Team 1:39.630 0.105 0.056 31 / 31 1:39.630
5 DOVIZIOSO, Andrea Ducati Team 1:40.322 0.797 0.692 21 / 30 1:41.322
6 BAUTISTA, Alvaro GO&FUN Honda Gresini 1:40.686 1.161 0.364 25 / 35 1:41.153
7 MARQUEZ, Marc Repsol Honda Team 1:40.714 1.189 0.028 21 / 36 1:41.034
8 BRADL, Stefan LCR Honda MotoGP 1:40.783 1.258 0.069 30 / 32 10:50.514
9 IANNONE, Andrea Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Team 1:41.088 1.563 0.305 15 / 15 1:41.088
10 HAYDEN, Nicky Ducati Team 1:41.325 1.800 0.237 29 / 35 1:41.669
11 BARBERA, Hector Avintia Blusens 1:41.376 1.851 0.051 22 / 25 1:42.248
12 SMITH, Bradley Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1:41.398 1.873 0.022 28 / 41 1:59.195
13 ESPARGARO, Aleix Power Electronics Aspar 1:41.444 1.919 0.046 44 / 48 1:55.080
14 PETRUCCI, Danilo Came IodaRacing Project 1:41.529 2.004 0.085 31 / 32 1:41.850
15 PIRRO, Michele Ducati Test Team 1:41.603 2.078 0.074 25 / 32 1:42.373
16 DE PUNIET, Randy Power Electronics Aspar 1:41.686 2.161 0.083 24 / 34 1:47.643
17 CORTI, Claudio NGM Mobile Forward Racing 1:41.701 2.176 0.015 24 / 26 1:42.466
18 SPIES, Ben Ignite Pramac Racing Team 1:41.702 2.177 0.001 28 / 29 8:00.431
19 ABRAHAM, Karel Cardion AB Motoracing 1:41.916 2.391 0.214 23 / 35 1:43.086
20 HERNANDEZ, Yonny Paul Bird Motorsport 1:42.050 2.525 0.134 21 / 32 1:42.240
21 STARING, Bryan GO&FUN Honda Gresini 1:42.107 2.582 0.057 39 / 39 1:42.107
22 EDWARDS, Colin NGM Mobile Forward Racing 1:42.154 2.629 0.047 31 / 33 1:42.436
23 AOYAMA, Hiroshi Avintia Blusens 1:43.959 4.434 1.805 25 / 25 1:43.959
24 LAVERTY, Michael Paul Bird Motorsport 1:44.185 4.660 0.226 16 / 21 1:45.102
25 PESEK, Lukas Came IodaRacing Project 1:44.874 5.349 0.689 25 / 33 1:45.354
