Fiat Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo has set the fastest time in today’s final MotoGP free practice session at a wet Estoril, fending off a late charge by team-mate Valentino Rossi to finish half a second ahead of the Italian with Repsol Honda’s Andrea Dovizioso bagging third with his final circulation.
Casey Stoner crept up to fourth and towed the Monster Yamaha of Colin Edwards with him and Marco Simoncelli, who was third for most of the hour-long session, was eventually bumped down to the outside of a theoretical second row, 1.6s off the pace.
Only Lorenzo, who crashed at turn 13 with only a few minutes to go, and Rossi topped the timesheet for the business half of the session in conditions that were similar to yesterday afternoon.
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Laptimes were slightly slower than second practice for the leaders with Lorenzo on a 1’48.853 and Rossi lapping in 1’49.935. Stoner also crashed in the same place as Lorenzo but was equally unhurt. BSN
Also inside the top ten in FP3 was Aleix Espargaró (Pramac Racing) in seventh, whilst Ducati rider Nicky Hayden had a fall at turn two a third of the way into the session and ended in 13th.
The leading times across the combined practice sessions remained the same as the FP2 order, with the top five being Lorenzo, Hayden, Rossi, Stoner and Ben Spies. Motogp.com
Pos. Num. Rider Team Time 1 99 Jorge LORENZO Fiat Yamaha Team 1'48.853 2 46 Valentino ROSSI Fiat Yamaha Team 1'49.435 3 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Repsol Honda Team 1'50.007 4 27 Casey STONER Ducati Team 1'50.081 5 5 Colin EDWARDS Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1'50.313 6 58 Marco SIMONCELLI San Carlo Honda Gresini 1'50.500 7 41 Aleix ESPARGARO Pramac Racing Team 1'50.787 8 26 Dani PEDROSA Repsol Honda Team 1'50.824 9 33 Marco MELANDRI San Carlo Honda Gresini 1'51.250 10 65 Loris CAPIROSSI Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1'51.518 11 11 Ben SPIES Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1'51.916 12 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1'52.734 13 69 Nicky HAYDEN Ducati Team 1'53.018 14 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA Interwetten Honda MotoGP 1'53.317 15 14 Randy DE PUNIET LCR Honda MotoGP 1'53.537 16 71 Carlos CHECA Pramac Racing Team 1'53.933 17 40 Hector BARBERA Paginas Amarillas Aspar 1'54.073
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