With the second test of the 2016 MotoGP pre-season now in the history books, Oriol Puigdemont analyses the key players' form in the three days at Phillip Island. 1. Yamaha comes back down to Earth It's clear that the Japanese manufacturer is still ahead of the rest, although the superiority it showed in the first pre-season test at Sepang was much larger than its advantage at Phillip Island, a very peculiar circuit due to its very fast corners. Lorenzo and Rossi, for their part, chose to focus on the hybrid M1, which uses a chassis that's identical to last year's, and ruled out the new bike completely. 2. Rossi is still on form In Malaysia, Lorenzo proved to be a step, or two, ahead of...
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