Factory Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo bagged top spot in this evening’s second MotoGP free practice session with a very early lap of 1’22.056 while Dani Pedrosa took second place just ahead of his team-mate Casey Stoner with Valentino Rossi down in 11th.
Spaniard Lorenzo, who survived a big cold-tyre moment at the bottom of The Corkscrew late on, set his lap on his ninth circulation of 24 and is a little more than a tenth faster than compatriot Pedrosa while Stoner is only 0.34s further back but all three are still a long way off Lorenzo’s pole of 1’20.978 from last year.
Andrea Dovizioso, on the third Repsol bike, took fourth place with a 1’22.730 with three-time AMA Superbike Champion Ben Spies fifth and half a second off the pace. BSN
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Followed by Marco Simoncelli’s Gresini Honda. Best of the rest this time was Suzuki’s Alvaro Bautista in a promising seventh.
Pramac’s Randy de Puniet was Ducati’s quickest rider in eighth, as the factory bikes of Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi were only 10th and 11th, behind Tech 3 Yamaha’s Colin Edwards. Both works Ducati men used the 2012 chassis GP11.1 in this session.
Newcomer Ben Bostrom still trailed the field, but narrowed the gap slightly as he took his LCR Honda round 4.1s off Lorenzo’s pace. Yahoo! Eurosport UK
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