Movistar Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo had an epiphany with Bridgestone’s soft tyre in the test and says he will switch to it from the Le Mans round onwards.

Lorenzo has been using the harder of the available compounds so far this season after the firm switched to a different construction but when he put a 27-lap run on the soft, he found the laptimes remained far more consisent.

“We try the soft tyre to see if it is more constant than the hard one and it has been, I could keep 1’39.9, 1’40.0 for a lot of laps, the last run of 27 laps I did those times and with a hard tyre it was impossible, so it is interesting information for Le Mans, maybe we should concentrate with the soft tyre,” said Lorenzo, speaking at Jerez.

“Normally with the soft, you put it to make a fast lap in qualifying so is normal that it make a 1’38.5 and then on the third lap there is a big drop but then it remains constant for a very long time. For our bike at the moment, the soft doesn’t create as much spin, which you can control with the electronics.

“We tried a new braking system in the electronics which helped a little bit, a small difference.”