Aero body work at MotoGP | MOTOGP | SPORT

Unlike Motegi, aero bodywork remained mainly in abeyance at Phillip Island, with cornering fidelity more important than wheelie control at the flowing circuit with only two slow corners.

Jorge Lorenzo flew his usual big box kites on the flanks of his Ducati, and Aleix Espargaro and Andrea Iannone used their latest loop-scoop fairings on their Aprilia and Suzuki respectively.

For the rest, the downforce bodywork stayed in the freight boxes.

In the past at this windy track, fairings have been drilled to reduce resistance in direction changes, but so far this year there’s been no sign of that.