"Physically I feel better. Yesterday evening I was tired, but I was able to rest and this morning I felt like I had the right energy to be effective. In fact, in FP3 I was much faster straight away, doing a good 1'55.8 and missing out on going straight through to Q2 by just under a tenth. In any case, I was sure that I would be able to make it in Q1 and, in fact, on my second run I was doing a good lap with a red helmet in the first sector, but then the bike switched off and I was unable to continue. We still do not know what the problem was, and we are investigating it now. This means that tomorrow we'll have to start from the back of the grid, but I will give it my best, as always, to try to recover as much as possible. This morning with the new engine we were competitive and not far behind the leaders, so we are still confident."

"I knew some weekends would be more difficult than expected and Brno is one of them. I am in a complicated situation with tyre choice. If I use the medium on the front, I'm unable to be fast, whereas when I put the hard on the front and the soft on the rear, I risk crashing when I push. There are no macroscopic problems, but a series of small things that are keeping me from improving at the end of the day. I don't want to make any drastic changes for tomorrow. It is what it is and we'll need to get the most out of the package we have available. The race is usually my best session of the weekend, so I'll give it my all and we'll see what the result is."