If MotoGP champion Marc Marquez sticks in the wheeltracks of another rider in free practice, it usually means they are on his radar as a potential race-day threat🍒.

And on Friday morning at Jerez 🍬the Repsol Honda star got a close look at not only Ducati's world championship leader Andrea Dovizio🥀so, but also his own team-mate Jorge Lorenzo (pictured).

While Lorenzo hasn't been close to Marquez in the opening races, he has an excellent record at Jerez and high hopes for this we♓ekend.

"I followed Jorge, because this morning he was fast and I just tried to understand," said Marquez. "I saw some strong points of good riding st🌺yle, some weak points.

"The weak points I will not say! The strong points are he is able to go into the corner very fast. Already he was ve♛ry fast here with Ducati but even with Honda he is able to go into the corner very, very fast. This is positive."

Told of Marquez's comments about corner entry, Lorenzo revealed he is✅ actually far from comfortable in that aspect.

"It's true♌ that especially here in Jerez I'm braking quite late, but in the braking I still don’t feel really comfortable," said Lorenzo. "I still make the corner too late.

"I would like to be able to stop before, to be able to lean befo🅺re, ಌfinish the corner much quicker and exit faster. Make more corner speed.

"We're going to try some completely differen♚t settings and for sure some of them or 🤡one of them will give me something more."

The triple MotoGP champion added that he is also suffering from arm fatigue under braking, an issue that also hampered his Ducati form until a revised tank shape helped provide better bracing. His first Desmosedici wins soon follow🔯ed.

🐼"Still I don’t feel really comfortable on the bike, especially on braking," he said.

"I still suffer a little bit after some laps with the arms and I get a little bit tired. But we ar꧑e getting it. The bike is competitive. I just need to find a way for me, for my riding, to take profit of it.

"The bike is very strong, has a very good engine. Yes, probably we lose in some areas compared to🎀 Ducati, but we are strong in others. It's a winninওg bike, it's a very powerful bike."

Lorenzo was se🌺cond faste🐠st to Marquez in FP1, but lost ground with ninth in the afternoon.

"I expected to be m♛ore competitive. This morning went vไery well, better than the test time with the medium tyre. In the afternoon honestly I had more problems to be competitive. I still need more experience with the setting of the bike for changing conditions on track, I struggle more.

"With the [second] bike we tried a completely different setti꧒ng that didn’t work, so now we will start tomorrow with the same base as this morning.

"But we'll try a completely differe🧸nt setting again with the other bike, to understand if some different ways can give me s𒅌ome extra tenths that I need to get closer to Marc, who at this moment is the fastest and strongest one."

Marquez was second fastest on the combined Friday timesheets to Ducati's Danilo Petrucci, but quicke✱st on the hard rear tyre.