MotoGP Tests have multiple purposes but sometimes the team use it more to fix what didn’t go (that) well during a GP, specially when it happens right after a GP, just like it happened in the last test, at Jerez. This is a normal practice for the teams, Álex Márquez told and are the two major approaches.
The Gresini Racing rider spoke about the matter on Motorsport, quoted on Motosan, saying how it’s better to go for a test right after a good weekend of GP and explained how tests can have different paths: ‘It’s always good to do tests, but when the GP has gone well it is better than if it has gone badly. In this case you focus more on solving the problems than on moving forward. If things have gone well, it is easier to take steps forward. They are two completely different approaches, so a test after a good weekend is always better to try things for the future’.
As for the opportunity to test, he explained how it usually goes: ‘It’s about you giving to them and they giving to you, that’s how it is. You have to try things for them so you can have something too. We were testing things for the future to see directions where to go, but it is just information and acting as a test rider for the brand, because they ask it of you and what less than giving something to be able to receive in return’.
He ended saying that he tried good stuff for what is to come in the future: ‘We’ve tried things, it’s true, it’s been good. These are things that can be used in the future’.