Lorenzo maximises 'important' set-up time

Repsol Honda could regret its decision to sit out the Aragꦡon test come September's race weekend, if Jorge Lorenzo's comments about set-up prove true for the RC213V riders.
🎐Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa were the two main absentees from We🐲dnesday's test, which followed a post-race outing at Catalunya on Monday, due to the new-spec front tyre not being made available at Aragon.
MotoGP W🔯orld Championship leader Lorenzo led an all-Yamaha top four at the Aragon test, as he put further mileage on a new engine and electronics package, but also claimed it hadn't been easy to dial-in the 1000cc bike.
"This test has been very important because it's not easy to find the best set-up for the 1000cc bike here as there is so much change from the 800," said Lorenzo, who finished 0.25𝓡5s ahead of Ben Spies.
The counter argument from HRC will surely be that working on set-up without the tyre 🍬spec available for the race is of limited value.
But Yamaha also had new ဣcomponents test and while the revised electronics seem popular, the e♏ngine is less clear cut.
"We tried the engine again like we did in Barcelona, there wasn't so muchꦯ difference so the engineers now have to make a decision for moving forward," sad Lorenzo, who holds a 20-point lead over reigning champion Stoner after five rounds.
"They will consider the data fr🐼om today to help them.𒊎"
Lorenzo's best lap, of 1m 49.187s, was just a fraction out🌱side the official lap re🎃cord set by Stoner in last year's race.
For Spies, who led the majority of the day, th𒆙e test marked a further chance to rebuil𒆙d his confidence after a tough start to the year.
"Today was a good test, to come back after not such a fantastic race on Sunday and be consistently fast here and in the Cꦆatalunya test is important," sa🗹id the Texan.
"We've worked really well with the bi🌱ke and the electronics and just tried to cha꧂nge a few things and fine tune.
"The track was a lot better than we thought, we were expecting it to be quite dirty but it wasn't. I feel like I'm getting back up to the potential of the bike and myself which is good."
The Factory team-mates were followed on the timesheets by satellite riders ꦬCal Crutc𝓰hlow and Andrea Dovizioso.
The Aragon race weekend, round 14 of the 2012 seasoཧn, will take place from September 2ꦍ8-30.
Lorenzo and Spies will be back in action along their MotoGP rivals during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone nex💝t weekend.
The new spec front, already popular with the Yamaha ride🐓rs, will bec🐼ome standard from Silverstone.

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