Aleix Espargaro has arguably made the biggest step forward of any rider in wet conditions since last weekend’s Styrian MotoGP, as the Aprilia rider wen𝐆t from fini𝔉shing 23rd in a similarly wet conditioned FP2 session to P3 today. 

Espargaro was especially strong at t♛he beginning of the 𒉰session when the track was at its wettest point. 

The Spanish rider credited changes to the ‘length of the bike’ and with the ‘geom🐻etry’, following a start to FP1 which saw the 32 year-old lose dry track time due to a mechanical issue. 

"It has been not an eas♕y day for me. The plan was to do a long run at the beginning of FP1, but we had a small problem that forced me to stop in the garage a😼nd then use the second bike,” said Espargaro.  

"But e💧ven like that I managed to be strong, to be fast in both sessions - in the top five which is positive. 

"And what makes me m🎃ore happy is that last Friday in the wet sessions I finished last I think, but𒆙 today I was third. But especially the first run where it was full wet. 

"I was in the top six, top eight, and we changed a lot th𓄧e bike. We changed a lot the length of the bike and with t🌞he geometry, so I’m very happy with the changes we did." 

Espargaro was unable to use the Aprilia’s ride height device in qualifying or the race last weekend, 𝓀something he's ready to do ‘every lap’ this weekend, permitting it’s dry♐. 

"Regarding the ride height device… no, no I didn’t use it in the wet. I think on the wet it is not easy to use and it is quite new for us and we still need to discover a biꦅt i🅺n the dry. 

"But in the dry I use it every single lap in the morning, so I’m very happy because I didn’t use it on the qualifying last weekend and eveꦡn in the rac﷽e, so this weekend I think I’m ready to use every lap."