
He was due to start out 14th having qualified fifteenth following two crashes in a dramatic Q1 session on Saturday, with a grid penalty for Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli promoting him one spot. But with lots of the grid taking the chance to explore the 2.678-mile monitor in the course of the few days off between final weekend’s test at Malaysia’s Sepang circuit and Mandalika action commencing on Friday, there’s sufficient info that we can start to...