Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez continued his devastating from Sunday into testing on Monday at Jerez, outpacing Jorge Lorenzo by a quarter of a second to lead the session on a 1’38.737 which was faster than his pace in the race but six-tenths slower than his own pole time.

The reigning MotoGP World Champion said he didn’t have a huge amount of new parts to try but did admit to evaluating new electronics, a rear brake setup and some front geometry settings – some of which worked and some of which didn’t.

“We didn’t test anything special as we didn’t have a lot to try. We tried to a couple of things to improve turning and then some for geometry. We tried something with the electronics, some was better, some worse, we took a lot of information and that is the important thing,” said Marquez, speaking at Jerez.

“I catch up on what I missed in pre-season with my leg. I try some rear brakes and things that is difficult during the weekend to try. These things were to compare whether we have problems in different circuits and try to improve. It was more for the fast corners to try and keep the rear cool.

“I try one thing on the rear that really helped me for turning where this weekend I was struggling a little bit. It was a little bit everything but a setting with the rear suspension, sometimes is was better, sometimes worse but we find some positive points.”

Lorenzo (see separate story) put in a fastest time of 1’38.999 as the track cooled off in the afternoon and he was less than a tenth faster than team-mate Valentino Rossi, who had the younger man’s measure in Sunday’s race. Dani Pedrosa was fourth fastest with Alvaro Bautista rounding out the top five –the Spaniard ompleting a marathon haul of 73 laps as he worked on front forks and rear shocks.

Jerez MotoGP test - conditions dry

1 MARQUEZ, Marc Repsol Honda Team 1:38.737 28 / 55 1:39.516

2 LORENZO, Jorge Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 1:38.999 0.262 0.262 58 / 62 1:39.480

3 ROSSI, Valentino Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 1:39.063 0.326 0.064 58 / 58 1:39.063

4 PEDROSA, Dani Repsol Honda Team 1:39.377 0.640 0.314 44 / 51 1:40.119

5 BAUTISTA, Alvaro GO&FUN Honda Gresini 1:39.635 0.898 0.258 18 / 73 1:56.154

6 BRADL, Stefan LCR Honda MotoGP 1:39.713 0.976 0.078 33 / 70 2:32.361

7 ESPARGARO, Pol Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1:39.780 1.043 0.067 47 / 68 1:40.890

8 ESPARGARO, Aleix NGM Mobile Forward Racing 1:39.797 1.060 0.017 11 / 41 2:06.522

9 SMITH, Bradley Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1:39.840 1.103 0.043 3 / 58 1:40.444

10 AOYAMA, Hiroshi Drive M7 Aspar 1:39.881 1.144 0.041 31 / 60 2:24.966

11 IANNONE, Andrea Pramac Racing 1:40.077 1.340 0.196 4 / 15 1:40.598

12 REDDING, Scott GO&FUN Honda Gresini 1:40.276 1.539 0.199 63 / 71 1:40.913

13 PIRRO, Michele Ducati Test Team 1:40.717 1.980 0.441 29 / 70 2:21.001

14 ABRAHAM, Karel Cardion AB Motoracing 1:40.723 1.986 0.006 27 / 43 2:28.224

15 BARBERA, Hector Avintia Racing 1:41.231 2.494 0.508 21 / 74 1:42.253

16 LAVERTY, Michael Paul Bird Motorsport 1:41.357 2.620 0.126 29 / 38 14:55.690

17 PARKES, Broc Paul Bird Motorsport 1:41.925 3.188 0.568 18 / 55 1:42.479

18 CORSI, Simone NGM Mobile Forward Racing 1:42.333 3.596 0.408 14 / 45 1:43.307

19 DI MEGLIO, Mike Avintia Racing 1:42.912 4.175 0.579 61 / 65 1:43.123