Team Suzuki Press Office – June 24.
Team SUZUKI ECSTAR’s Maverick Viñales and Aleix Espargaró both put in strong qualifying performances this afternoon at the Motul TT Assen ahead of Sunday’s eighth round of the MotoGP™ World Championship race in the Netherlands.
Both GSX-RR riders shaved significant time from their morning FP1 session with Viñales going fourth on the timesheets with a 1'33.892-lap and Espargaró eighth with a time of 1'34.087.
Team SUZUKI ECSTAR deployed two different versions of the GSX-RR chassis today: Viñales had two machines available with the evolution chassis, the one already tested two weeks ago in Barcelona, while Espargaró had two bikes with the standard chassis. This choice was made after the test at the Catalan GP, where the team and riders went in hunt of better grip at the rear.
Today’s work also focused on some set-up adjustments for the track and mainly on electronics, which is already to be refined as today’s performance didn’t leave the riders convinced they could both take the best out of their machines.
