Bradley Smith: I need the thing to be spinning!

It hasn't been easy, but MotoGP rookie Bradley Smith felt he made real progress in adapting to his new Monster Yamaha Tech 3 machinery during this week's second Sepang test.

Eighth fastest (+1.831s) in the opening test of the year, Smith slightly reduced the gap to the front further this week, although improvements by the factory Ducatis dropped him to tenth on the overall timesheets.

After making sure that a sizeable crowd of local fans had all the autographs, photos and signed t-shirts they wanted, Smith gave Crash.net a rundown on how things stand with just one pre-season test remaining.