Eugene Laverty has firmly set his sights on a factory ride for 2017 after yet another impressive performance at Jerez this weekend. Capitalising on 14th on the grid, the Apsar Ducati rider was able to once again stun the MotoGP paddock by finishing ninth. Top of MotoGP’s contingent of British riders for the fourth weekend out of four, Laverty remains without a contract for next season. But, with the paddock now abuzz with talk of his newfound form on the two year old Ducati GP14 machine, he admitted to MCN that he now has much higher targets than he had only weeks ago.  “It seems in MotoGP that April is the new July! There’s never been a year with so many riders out of contract,...
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