Movistar Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi will only have one of the new frames that took him to second place at Jerez available at the Le Mans MotoGP round this weekend.

The nine-time world champion will have to make do with the updated chassis but hopes that Yamaha will be able to make a second available soon as it helped him get more load into front Bridgestone and beat both team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa.

"I am very happy about the weekend in Jerez, unfortunately I wasn’t able to win over Marquez but I managed to win over Pedrosa and Jorge. I am also happy about the test done on the following Monday at the same track. During the test I continued to work on the new chassis and I like it, it helps me especially with the front tyre,” said The Doctor.

“At Le Mans I will have only one new chassis but I am confident that Yamaha will bring me the second chassis as soon as possible. I want to continue the work on this. I made good times during the test, even the "time attack" was good and so I will try to start from the front row at Le Mans. It’s a positive moment for me because I'm pretty fast, I work well in the box and I think we can be very optimistic. We can have a good race.”