Both Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa were unable to carry out much needed extensive work at today’s Barcelona MotoGP test as rain called a halt to proceedings after a couple of hours.

Marquez, who effectively kissed goodbye to his title hopes in a crash yesterday, put togther a package of last year’s chassis with new swingarm, electronics and engine and did three runs on it and came up with some positives.

"We didn’t have much luck with the weather today, it started to rain very early on and we could only do three runs. The important thing is that the one point we did try – last year’s chassis with this year’s swingarm and engine gave us a positive feeling,” said the reigning champion.

“We have to confirm our findings and compare the telemetry, because it wasn’t a huge step forward and we couldn’t do many laps, but the first impressions were good. The rain interrupted our work, but we'll see if we can continue working in this way because I’m feeling better on the bike all the time."