Valentino Rossi only 1:22.772 set his best lap at Laguna Seca's practice. The Italian crashed without injury ten minutes from the end of the afternoon session, and therefore wasn’t able to try for a time with a soft tyre.
Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team) 9th (1:22.772)
“I crashed ten minutes from the end of the second session and couldn’t use the new soft tyre that we had just put on. It was my mistake because I felt that I had much more grip and immediately pushed hard from the first lap, but I had a hard tyre on the front and when I entered turn three a bit wide, I think it was still a bit cold and I fell. The important thing is I’m fine, but it’s still a shame because after that I rode with the hard rear and was sliding too much to improve my time. I think that our potential for being in the second group is pretty good, not far from Crutchlow and Dovizioso. We’ll see tomorrow as we continue riding with the setting that I like the most, the one that I crashed with and that I didn’t use with the soft tyre today.”
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