Valentino Rossi intends to dig deep at the Dutch TT at Assen this weekend as the Italian MotoGP legend 💫flies the flag for Yamaha's Factory team following Jorge Lorenzo's practice spill.

Rossi was fourth quickest this morning 🦂in 𒅌the dry, 0.6s down on Lorenzo, but clocked the second best time in the wet in FP2, only 0.25s down on Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez.

"Unfortunately Jorge had a big crash and an injury.꧑ It's a great pity for Yamaha, for the team and for him as he is fighting for the champi꧟onship," said Rossi.

"I hope that he comes back🦹 as ♈soon as possible, hopefully for the next race in Sachsenring.

"I hope to do𓄧 a good result and there is some extra motivation and some e📖xtra pressure because I am now the only factory Yamaha.

"I will have to try and make a good result in ♊front of th♋e Hondas for the championship."

Rossi is experimenting with a new setting on the YZR-M1 that enables him to improve his braking and was set to try♒ an 'important' change in the afternoon before the heavens opened.

"It's been a positive d🙈ay for us because in the dry it was not so bad this morning, we continued to work with our new setting and the first impression was positiღve, although we still have to work to improve," he said.

"We had something important to try this afternoon in the dry but un🔥fortunately it was wet.

"Anyway we continued our work in th🧜e wet and it was a good practice, we did a good job with our new setting and the bike was also very good in the wet.

"I improved lap by lap; I had g🥂ood pace and I was in second position," added Rossi.

"We 🅠have𝔍 to continue to work in both conditions, everybody knows here in Assen it can be wet or dry."