"I am obviously pleased. After the work we did, with a lot of changes, the bike is working much better than yesterday, so in Q1 I felt good even in those track conditions. And I am convinced that if I had been able to use a new tyre for the finale, I would have easily been able to battle for the pole or for the front row. But since I did Q1, I didn't have another tyre and these rain tyres heat up easily when the track dries out. So I was forced to alternate a fast lap with a slow lap to cool them down. But that's fine; it's part of racing and the third row is a nice starting place for the race tomorrow. The Aprilia is a bike that conserves the rear tyre well and it has a lot of grip even in the race finale. I like the track and tomorrow in the race we will be able to bring home a good result."

"I feel good on the RS-GP in the various conditions that we found here in Argentina. Especially in the rain, but also in the dry, I am rather satisfied with our settings. I would have liked to have worked a bit more with the dry track to remove some doubt about tyre choice. In mixed conditions I usually struggle a lot with tyre temperature, whereas I must say that with this bike the problem was significantly less evident. Unfortunately, this morning the pain in my back was really bad. I preferred waiting until the afternoon to use the pain killers and suffer less in qualifying. The pain is moving downward. I don't know if that is good or bad, but I am working on being in the best possible condition tomorrow."