Factory Yamaha's Ben Spies is happy with his setup for tomorrow's Motorland Aragon race and looks to have a very similar pace to team-mate Jorge Lorenzo over race distance but the Texan says he is lacking a little bit on Caey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa.

Spies worked on his soft-tyre setup yesterday and then changed to the hards for today. He found a compromise halfway through qualifying and then switched to the softs again to put in a fast lap which resulted in him bagging the last spot on the front row.

"The whole weekend has been pretty good for me, I’m pretty happy with it. We struggled a little bit this morning but the bike’s working really well. We looked over a bit of data and tried to find the best compromise. We found it with 30 minutes to go in qualifying and with the race tyres we were about third or fourth quickest," said Spies.

"When we put the softer tyres on we were able to go quicker and get on the front row. The crew has done an amazing job to get the bike where it is, we’re just lacking a bit of speed from the front two guys. We’re going to try and challenge for the podium tomorrow.”