MotoGP tests have multiple purposes but sometimes the team uses them more to correct what did not go well during a GP, especially when it happens right after a GP, as was the case with the last one in Jerez. This is a common practice for teams, and Álex Márquez explained the two main approaches to follow.
The Gresini Racing rider talked about the topic to Motorsport, quoted in Motosan, saying how it is better to go testing right after a good GP weekend and explaining how tests can take different paths: ‘It is always good to do tests, but when the GP has gone well it is better than if it had gone badly. In this case, you focus more on solving problems than on moving forward. If things went 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’.
Regarding the opportunity to do the test, he explained how it usually goes: ‘It’s a matter of you giving to them and them giving to you, that’s how it is. You have to try things for them so that you can have something too. We were testing things for the future to see where to go, but it’s just information and acting as a test rider for the manufacturer, because they ask that of you and nothing less than giving something in order to receive in return’.
He finished by saying that he tried good things for what is to come: ‘We tried things, it’s true, it has been good. These are things that can be used in the future’.
