Marquez was first to speak – feeling good about the weekend and quietly optimistic it will be an improvement on 2016: “We’ve come straight from Brno to here, and still the good feeling is there with a good feeling in the Monday test. We’ll see, last year it was a weekend where we struggled more, but last year we didn’t test here, and this year we’ve improved our acceleration a bit. Looks like the weather will be unstable so it will be important to always make the right steps, just trying to get the best setup for Sunday. The Red Bull Ring is a really special circuit, hard braking and acceleration. We’ll see if this year we can find the right balance. Last year I was ok but in the race the tyre dropped a lot, but this year we think we can be more competitive. This year we’ll see if we can fight for the podium, or top five or the win – you never know. In the test we found some things, I was riding comfortably and I’ve improved the front feeling a bit so we’ll see.”