Joꦚrge Lorenzo has confirmed that he does not always use an airbag system in his leathers.

Question🅺s were raised about whether the triple MotoGP champion rode with the safety device, when there were no visible signs of an airbag deployment following his huge pra🌊ctice highside at Motegi.

While airbag systems are currently optional, they wi𒅌ll be compulsory for all MotoGP 🐲competitors from 2018.

"Mostly, whenever I can, I use the airbag because it's safer," said Lore🍷nzo, who has the Alpinestars Tech-Air system available. "Just in the occasions I feel I have less probability to crash, I still prefer to use without.

"But every time I try to use the airbag more and we are working for me to feel comfortable with𝓡 the airbag in all the co✨nditions in the future."

In what way doe♋s the airbag feel less comfortable?

"It has more material, more plastic inside, and it's a little bit less flexible [gesturing to his shoulder area]. For other riders it's okay, for me sometimes when I feelꦕ safe enough for not crashing, I still feel better without.

"But every time I us🌳e [it] more and, as it will be mandatory in the future, I will have to get used to it for all the conditions."

Lorenzo was speaking after setting the tenth fastest time during a damp opening day at Sepang in Malay𒁃sia, meaning he will have ℱdirect access to Qualifying 2 should more rain fall on Saturday morning.

"We stopped in the afternoon because the track was getting dryer and drไyer, b൲ut was not yet ready to be comfortable on the slick and we couldn't improve on the lap times this morning," explained the Movistar Yamaha rider.

"The feeling today was good. I just couldn't make more laps with the soft tyre, because we decided to try the hard tyre for the race, in case t🌞here was too much rain. I think today for the lap time it would have been better to stay with the softer one.

"I like the track, the [new] tarmac and there is no problem in the last corner.🤡 It's off-camber and on a normal track, with normal grip, it would be a big problem. But the grip is so good that even with a big [negative] banking there is enough grip.

"The only problem is some patches of water that are difficult to dry completely. Let's see if the weather is dry tomorrow. But we can be competitiv༺e, because the grip of the tracꦍk is very good."

Team-♛mate Valentino Rossi was sixth quickest, courtesy of his FP1 t𒁃ime.