Valentino Rossi is seeking half-a-second of race pace to fight his way forwards from sixth on the grid in Sunday's Aragon MotoGP. Rossi has repeatedly warned that his 23-point lead could evaporate if Movistar Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo is able to put the likes of Marc Marquez between them in a race. As it turned out, reigning champion Marquez did Rossi a small favour by beating Lorenzo to pole on Saturday - only for three other riders to step up and outpace the Italian. “The qualifying is not fantastic. For sure it is better to start more in front, but anyway the second row is not so bad,” said Rossi, who unlike Marquez and Lorenzo did two rather than three qualifying runs and...
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