Three rounds into the 2016 MotoGP season and Eugene Laverty is yet to drop below his best finish of last year. The Irishman has taken the Aspar team's new Ducati machinery to twelfth, fourth and twelfth place finishes in Qatar, Argentina and Austin respectively. That's enough to put Laverty ninth in the world championship standings, between factory Suzuki riders Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro, heading into the first European round at Jerez. Speaking after Sunday's Circuit of the Americas race, Laverty declared: “I knew it would be tough. I pulled a lap out of my arse [in qualifying], which was good for one lap, but the bike was hard work around here. “When you come to a track...
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