Sunny Friday started with some decent steps forward for Danilo Petrucci. The latest MotoGP race winner at the Mugello circuit made up 1.19 seconds from FP1 to FP2 today, which also lifted him up from P18 to the top 15 in Free Practice two, although the Italian concluded day one 16^th in the overall standings. Yet, he missed out on a possible Q2 entry by just 0.441 seconds in the ultra-competitive premier class field.

On the other side of the Tech3 KTM Factory Racing garage, Iker Lecuona was riding at the famous track in the Tuscan hills for the first time on a MotoGP machine and likewise got closer to the top throughout day one. In FP2, he went 1.205 seconds quicker than this morning, however, there is still room to do further steps in Free Practice three at 9:55 local time on Saturday.

Danilo Petrucci

Position: 16^th

Time: 1:47.129

Laps: 37

"It’s always a very nice feeling to ride a bike at this track. We did some good progress, but we are still working to find a decent setup. I have the feeling, we already found something good, but we still miss some speed. We will see tomorrow. At least today, we have a clear situation of what we need. The gap to the front is still not as we want. But we have some ideas for tomorrow and we’ll hopefully manage to do a good Qualifying."

Iker Lecuona

Position: 22^nd

Time: 1:47.792

Laps: 34

“I struggled quite a lot today. First of all, it was my debut with the MotoGP bike here, but I also don’t have very much experience at this track at all and as it is quite technical, I needed many laps to understand. In FP1, I was pretty lost, took the wrong lines, so I had to improve a lot in FP2. I learned quite well and went way quicker. My fastest lap time was cancelled because I missed the track limits. I don’t know exactly where, but it was still ok. We are still far from the top, so I’m not really happy. When I went out alone, I couldn’t go faster, so we’ve got quite some things to do for tomorrow.”