Dani Pedrosa fastest on a rainy first day at Aragón

I felt good with the bike from the first lap

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Dani Pedrosa was the fastest rider in FP2, with a time of 1:59.858. He was the only MotoGP rider to go round in under 2 minutes.

Marc Márquez finished the day in fourth position, 6 tenths off his teammate.

Rain affected the first Free Practice sessions for the Aragón GP, but the forecast for the rest of the weekend is for sunshine.

Marc Márquez

Today was good, even if it was a particular one. In these kinds of conditions, it’s not possible to understand too much. The track was wet in the morning, whereas it dried quite a lot in the afternoon, toward the end of FP2. We decided not to take risks in the changing conditions and remained in the garage in the last minutes. Today it was actually good to work to reach a good feeling with the bike, but at the same time it was impossible to gather much information. Anyway, I felt good with the bike from the first lap. I was fast, so at the moment everything looks under control. Apparently it should be dry tomorrow and Sunday, so we’ll keep pushing and see where we are in dry conditions.

Dani Pedrosa

I’m happy with this day, even if it was obviously a bit strange. Both times when we were preparing to go on track, it started to rain and we had to change setup and tyres. As it happened, we never had the opportunity to fit the slicks and didn’t do a lot of laps in the rain either because the track was wet, though not too much. This afternoon in particular, the last part of the track was almost dry, the long corner and the straight, and the tyres warmed up quite a lot. Tomorrow we’ll see which conditions we’ll have and what feeling we’ll be able to find.