Iker Lecuona, who replaces injured Miguel Oliveira this weekend at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia showed an impressive second day aboard the KTM RC16 today. The young Spaniard progressed with each session again and finished his very first Q1 in the premier class in ninth position, just 1.120 seconds behind the fastest rider of the session.

Red Bull KTM Tech3‘s Hafizh Syahrin initiated the ultimate Grand Prix weekend of the year with some progress from FP1 to FP2, as he went 1.487 seconds faster this afternoon.

This weekend’s Gran Premio de la Comunitat Valenciana will see Red Bull KTM Tech3’s Hafizh Syahrin starting his final premier class race for now, starting on Friday 9.55 local time with FP1. The Malaysian star, who missed out on home points narrowly less than two weeks ago, arrives in Spain full of emotions and motivation to finish inside the top 15 in order to conclude his second year with the French squad on a high note.