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Stefan could easily improve this morning his time from yesterday afternoon. Still enough time not directly for the Q2 to directly qualify. The reason for this is the Ducati superiority, whose home track is Mugello and small problems to find a perfect setup.

In addition, Stefan got a new link for the reardampfer of  his Yamaha, here is still missing a little fine tuning. Otherwise, Stefan is so far satisfied, he speaks of the “light at the end of the tunnel” with regard to the whole technical problems since the beginning of the season.

Probably they can use tomorrow even the soft open rear tyre for race, what this whole season was never possible, not least this was Stefan’s riding style. That would be a little advantage. Stefan also has a constant pace, he get a lot of middle 1.48 laptimes. We can hope for the race.
The FP3 ended Stefan ranked 17 fastest was Jorge Lorenzo with a time of 1.46.6, a smooth second faster than Marc Marquez lap from 2014. Marquez needs to take even through Q1, so he came up only in FP3 place 11 this shows once again how tight is the power density in this class.

4. free training ended Stefan on the 9th place. That was really good even though a Hector Barbera smooth 10 km/h has a higher top speed than Stefan with his open Ducati. On a track like Mugello with a start/finishstraight 1km long , that is a lot.
In Q1 there was an big surprise:  Espargaro and Hernandez kick Marquez off the Q1, he cant take the Q2. Marquez starts tomorrow from 13th place! Stefan starts a row behind them, of 16th place. Andrea Iannone on the quick factory Ducati snatched the pole position.