MotoGP Rookie Hafizh Syahrin enjoyed his best Fridayඣ in the premier-class as he set the Yamaha pace with fourth on the Friday practice timesheets at Brno in the Czec♚h Republic.

Syahrin joined most of the top ten (including the other Yamahas) in using a soft rear tyre to record his best lap time, which was just 0.224s behind Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa, at the end of a scorchi🌊ng hot session.

But the Malaysian was especially pleased with his performance on the har♔d front and rear rubber, after a punishing experience with the latter at Austin.

"This is my best Friday ever and I also really surprised myself," said Syahrin, who now leads the rookie standings by three poinღts from Franco Morbidelli.

"I love the circuit and I think it works well with my style. I also spoke with the team and saw some videos from Jorge and tried to copy some information fr🌊om him.

"During the summer break I also did some training a▨t home and today in the morning I felt reall✱y good with the bike and also really motivated for the second half of the season.

"In the afternoon I also tried new things with the tyres, especially the hard compound. Because I never tried the hard front tyre and also I didnᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ't have confidence with the rear before because in Austin I had a big highside with the hard tyꦰre.

"Usually it takes a long time to have good grip and good feeling with the hard tyres, but today suddenly after one lap I fꦅelt really good with the hard tyre and I tried to keep my pace. I tried to understand how the tyre works.

"I'm really happy wi༺th the har🀅d tyre and that's why I can keep my pace really close to the rest of the riders."

Syahrin is now turnin𒐪g his focus towa♏rds defending his top ten place on Saturday morning, which would allow direct access to Qualifying 2.

"It will be interesting tomorrow morning because I know some riders will improve, especially Marc [Marquez] because today he was tenth and for sure tomorrow he won't want to be out of the top t🐭en.

"But tomorrow morning everyone can improve because the temperature of the track will be lower and for the tyres a bi✨t less stress.

"So I hope I can also improve tomorrow morning by two or three tenths to stay in the t꧅op ten and I really want to go into Qualifying 2. Because many times I was very close to Qualifying 2 but I went out."

In the past, t💃he pressure of trying to get into Qualifying 2 has been ཧSyahrin's downfall.

"I went out today feeling like I was at a test, not a race weekend. No stress. Because mostly when I was really close to the top ten I got really st🍸ressed because I really want it, but it didn't happen," he said.

"So I tried to stay really calm, ജrelaxed and the st🐈rategy is working really well."

Team-mate Johann Zarco was ninth fastest, with Movistar Yamaha'▨s Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales seventh and sixt꧋h respectively.