“It's something I'm looking forward to doing because I'd like to learn from him," said Spies. "He's definitely rolling along right now, and there are some areas from what I've seen throughout the year I'd like to keep as they're my strong points, but also I need to improve.”
"And there is some stuff that he does really well that you don't always just copy, but you can try to incorporate in what you've got,” the American continued. “As a rider I need to improve, I know that. And we'll look to do that with comparing stuff from Jorge.”
"We do have different styles, but I'm getting a little better at riding a GP bike and I've just got to push myself and get better in every way for next year. Maybe not huge gains, but I've got to get better," explains Spies.
Spies, however, is quite reserved on whether he will have something to say in Yamaha's development next year. The 26-year-old Texan also pointed out that his former team relied on the factory to provide upgrades.
"I'd like to think that on the development side I'm not bad, but also I don't have a tonne of experience on the MotoGP bike," said Spies.
"Now after having a year, we can tell the changes when we change stuff and things like that, but real development stuff we haven't had to do a whole lot - it was more just changing set-ups. I look forward to it - getting some new stuff, trying it and seeing where we go from there," he concluded.
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