Lorenzo suffered a crash in the morning warm-up session but ran in the top three during the opening laps, and was able to charge in the closing stages of the race to pass his teammate for second. The Spaniard credited a last-second tire change before the race with his good performance: "Sometimes a bad situation or a bad thing brings you a good thing and that’s what happened when I crashed. This made me do two warming up laps, one with the hard tire and one on the soft tire. Finally on these two laps the hard tire suddenly gave me a good confidence, even if I was warming up and very slow, so my instinct told me that I needed to change my race tire to the hard one and this crash and bit of instinct for sure gave me the possibility to do this race the way I was riding it."

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