Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez has topped the time sheets after the times from the first three free practice session have been combined at the opening round of the 2013 Moto GP Championship being held at the Losail Circuit in Qatar.
Marquez finished on the top of the time sheets in both Free Practice sessions on Friday, with a fastest time of 1'56.084 recorded on lap 16 of 17 in FP3, on a new soft rear tyre.
"Practice today went pretty well, better than expected." Marquez stated. "I was very comfortable on the bike, and this is the important thing.
"Our foundation isn't bad at all, we are improving in every session and working with Sunday's race in mind. What we are missing is a bit of pace and consistency.
"We will have to make the most of the 30 minutes that we have before qualifying tomorrow to improve those points".
Factory Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo produced the second best lap time over the three sessions, trailing Marques by the closest possible margin at just 1/1000s of a second slower.
‰ÛÏI‰Ûªm very happy with the changes we made on the bike because it improved a lot." Lorenzo explained. "In the last moments the track was better this evening, in the beginning it was very dirty.
"I think we can still improve the bike more tomorrow, we still haven‰Ûªt decided which chassis is better; today it was the new one, yesterday the old one.
"I‰Ûªm very curious to see how the qualifying goes with the new formula, we will just be concentrating on making four fast laps, the maximum performance we can get.‰Û
