Valentino Rossi admitted that “nothing really worked well” with his set-up after he could only manage a third-row grid slot for the Australian Grand Prix. As title rival and Yamaha teammate Jorge Lorenzo secured a spot on the front row at Phillip Island, Rossi struggled for pace, ending up seven tenths adrift of poleman Marc Marquez in seventh place. Though Rossi was able to bounce back from a lacklustre showing in practice last weekend at Motegi, the seven-time premier class champion pinned the blame for his woes this time around on a failure to find a set-up that worked on his works M1. “For us, today was difficult because we tried to find some solutions to be stronger, but nothing...
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