Scott Redding set the seventh fastest race lap on his RC213V debut in Sunday's Qatar MotoGP night race. That 1m 55.855s lap was 0.588s behind the best by race winner Valentino Rossi, but just 0.194s slower than reigning champion Marc Marquez and a mere 0.057s from Marquez's Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa. An improvement in front-end feeling was credited with helping the Englishman improve his pace, but Redding could only gain one place from his 14th on the grid start position. “It was a tough race and certainly not where I expected to be finishing,” Redding said. “The target was to finish inside the top 10, so I can't be happy to be 13th. We are making steps in the right...
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