"It was spinning up a lot and I couldn't drive off the longer corners and that's what cost me in China too. We really need to improve in this area because entry speed and mid-corner I'm not too bad, its just we are losing all the time on the exit. I'm on full throttle and I can't do anymore. Luckily my comments are the same as what the computer is saying so we know where we went wrong and my guys will sort it out as they always do.
"Valentino pushes his rear tyre forward in the swingarm and we might have to do that to get more weight on the tyre," revealed the double World Superbike champion. "Maybe I need to run a softer rear spring in the shock too so it loads up a bit quicker.
"I really like the track. It is a lot shorter so I can do a lot more laps. I'm doing ten more laps in an hour than I was in China. I was 1.6s off on the first day in Estoril and China and it's the same today, though I'm finding it harder with the set-up than at those last two races. But with the changes we've got planned I can make up a lot of time and I'm still optimistic of getting a good result for the team in what is a very important race for them," he declared.
