Yamaha have emerged from the opening day at the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya in seemingly great shape. Franco Morbidelli (Petronas Yamaha SRT) topped the combined timesheets with a 1:39.789, with all three of his Yamaha rivals joining the Italian inside the top 10 on Day 1. Yeah, I’m happy about today,” said Morbidelli, talking about his day’s work in Barcelona. Finally I was able to put a good time in with the softs and I’m happy about that, so it’s a really positive Friday for us.”. Viñales finished P4, four tenths shy of Morbidelli, with the Spaniard saying he was “comfortable” on the bike. Rossi seemed fairly pleased with his day though, saying: “Today was positive because my pace is quite good, I feel good with the bike.

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