Assen, 29 June: typical Assen weather has bedeviled both days of practice, with intermittent light showers, but today’s 26-lap race was run in the dry ahead of 90.000 spectators who celebrated the incredible victory of Rossi on Yamaha. LCR Honda racer Stefan Bradl started from the front row for the first time in his MotoGP career with the aim to continue his progression aboard the RCV and finished 6th scoring 10 points.

Bradl: “Honestly we are not completely happy because we were expecting a better result after our first front row. The sixth position is still okay but we miss something to catch the guys in the front. Actually we could not repeat yesterday’s lap times and I felt the bike was more heavy to turn and this cost us a lot of time in corner entries. Some riders passed me in the beginning on the brake because I was not able to fix my braking point and I struggled to find my references. I was not able to put the things together and reduce the gap to the front. Now we move to Argentina for a 2-day test session and then my home race at Sachsenring: I am really looking forward to race in front of my local fans.”