Dani Pedrosa will aim to up the ante during final practice and qualifying at Phillip Island on Saturday after finishing sixth fastest on day one. The Repsol Honda rider is in a rich vein of form after following up his runner-up result at Aragon with his first victory of the season with a calculated display in the damp last weekend at Motegi in Japan. Pedrosa's time of 1m 29.876s left him 0.493s behind team-mate and FP2 pacesetter Marc Marquez, but the Spaniard is ready to step up his performance on Saturday. “We were testing a little bit, trying to get a good setting on the bike. In this track it is normally a special setting and you need to be comfortable in the grip, because of the...
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