MotoGP riders look ahead and assess Grand Prix of the Americas, which takes place this weekend (April 8-10) in Austin, Texas.

SOUNDBITE: (English) Marc Marquez, Honda:

"Here we have many experimentations and at the moment it is where we lose more but we are trying to find the best way to improve the accelerations a lot and my team also. So, I believe that step by step we will improve in that point and yeah, really happy to be here because it looks like USA is a good country for me."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Valentino Rossi, Yamaha:

"For sure this year will be all different because we need to understand the Michelin tyres on the tarmac on this this track. Usually we suffer a lot with the front (end) here but now we have to understand if we will have the same problem or with this type of tyre it is different. So, we have to try to be ready and see what happens during the practice."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Jorge Lorenzo, Yamaha:

"Nobody is perfect and I make this mistake. I will try and learn from it for the future. I look forward now and try and forget this race. I think we have good potential in normal conditions, normal tarmac and normal tracks. Let's see here, this theoretically is hard for us but you know, as I said before coming into Argentina, if there is a year that we can do well it is this one."