Valentino Rossi claimed his best ever Circuit of the Americas grid position with fourth in Saturday's MotoGP qualifying session. The Italian, who won the season-opening Qatar round from eighth on the grid, has never finished on the podium in Texas and credited improvements to the 2015 M1 for putting him on course to fight for his rostrum target. The nine time world champion lapped 0.438s from Marc Marquez's Repsol Honda pole time, but only 0.033s behind Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and a place on the front row. “I'm happy because we improved the bike a lot in braking compared to last year,” Rossi said. “Also the seamless [gearbox] help us a lot and also the setting. This is the...
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