“I am very excited to go to Germany because I’ve found a much better set-up and feeling with the machine recently and it’s a lot more fun to be riding up front again.

We’ve still got some work to do if we want to move up to where the real fun is though. I hope we can continue improving the set-up over the weekend and get the bike turning better. Also we need to dial in the clutch a little more to smooth out the corner entry.

In the past the Sachsenring has been a good track to me. It’s quite tight, short and has been a little bumpy which meant you had to be pretty scrappy to get around there quickly. But I like it – it’s got a few fast left-handers and the downhill Waterfall corner is pretty sick. The lap times are always very close as it’s a short lap.

The word is that the circuit’s been repaved for this year which should improve it, so if we can get some good weather to go with it that will be nice. But either way I can’t wait to get there.”