Just hours after the race where Alvaro Bautista rode his RS-GP to an eighth place finish after an exhilarating comeback and where Stefan Bradl finished in the points, the Spanish Barcelona track had the MotoGP teams hard at work during a day of testing.

The focal point of the work done in the Aprilia Racing Team Gresini garages concerned some new tyre options developed by Michelin, in addition to some innovations with the electronics and the chassis settings. A lot of laps were taken, subdivided into rather brief outings precisely to maximise the amount of information and to accumulate data that will be analysed by the Aprilia engineers before the next race on the calendar at Assen, in Holland.