Home star Crutchlow fastest in a chilly FP3 session at the British MotoGP at Silverstone. Dovizioso stays quickest overall, with Petrucci and Rossi the only riders inside the top ten to improve on their friday times.
Maverick Vinales has been given a timely confidence boost from Friday practice at Silverstone after rediscovering a positive feeling with his Movistar Yamaha which translated from the recent Misano test.
It wasn't part of the official press conference (pictured), but speaking on the sidelines shortly afterwards Yamaha Motor Racing managing director Lin Jarvis confirmed that two key members of the factory team will join the Petronas-Sepang MotoGP project.
Danilo Petrucci and Jorge Lorenzo were lucky to avoid a big accident in the closing stages of Free Practice 2 at the British MotoGP when the Italian just missed the factory Ducati rider under braking for Vale.
Valentino Rossi feels his Movistar Yamaha squad’s ‘small modifications’ to its electronics set-up has been a sure step forward to add substance to the team's Silverstone resurgence.
Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo have both been officially presented as the riders for the new Petronas Yamaha Sepang Racing team which will enter MotoGP from next year.
Marc Marquez says drastic set-up alterations to his Repsol Honda and changing his own riding style rescued a difficult start to his British MotoGP race weekend to keep in touch with the front-runners despite assessing the resurfaced Silverstone as ‘a disaster’.
Dovizioso leads the Friday practice timesheets at the British MotoGP by just 0.005s from home hero Crutchlow. Vinales completes a top three covered by just 0.061s.
Vinales fastest from Yamaha team-mate Rossi as Marquez falls during a sunny but cool opening practice for the British MotoGP. Silverstone has been resurfaced ahead of the 2018 event. Loris Baz is replacing the injured Pol Espargaro at KTM.
Valentino Rossi has revealed the factory Yamaha squad has delayed its new engine specification after not testing it at Misano last weekend ahead of the British MotoGP.
Scott Redding says climbing the order and showing signs of competitiveness in Austria triggered the build-up to his outburst at Aprilia but accepts how he delivered his criticisms was wrong.
Cal Crutchlow has started his home MotoGP round at Silverstone on a bright note with a one-year contract extension with Honda which will see him with the Japanese manufacturer until at least the end of 2020.