Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo burned up Laguna Seca Raceway on Friday to stand atop the times after the second free practice for Sunday’s MotoGP US Grand Prix.
The Spaniard, who won at the northern California circuit last year, went straight to the top spot in the second session and stayed there, finishing with the day’s best time of one minute and 22.056 seconds.
Championship leader Casey Stoner could only manage the day’s third fastest time with Spanish teammate Dani Pedrosa second quickest, 0.141 seconds behind defending world champion Lorenzo.
Honda’s Andrea Dovizioso was the fourth fastest overall, his time of 1:22.537 fourth-quickest in the afternoon after he was fifth-fastest in the morning.
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Yamaha rider Ben Spies, who claimed his first career victory at Assen this season, was the fastest American on the day with a time of 1:22.615 that was two-tenths quicker than his morning run and left him fifth overall. Sydney Morning Herald
Bigger time improvements were seen from position six onwards, starting with Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini) whose time of 1’22.803 was almost a half second improvement for the crowd favorite, and was 0.253s quicker than seventh place lap of Álvaro Bautista (Rizla Suzuki), who also made a half second step up from the earlier session.
Next came Randy de Puniet, whose Pramac Racing machine was the first Ducati in the field. The Frenchman jumped from 12th to eighth with a time of 1’23.135, followed by Americans Colin Edwards (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) and the fastest Factory Ducati in the pack, that of Nicky Hayden, who had both the GP11 and GP11.1 available to him and used the GP11.1 machine for the duration of the session.
Valentino Rossi, who has Crew Chief Jeremy Burgess back in the garages after a two race absence, followed his Ducati Team mate in eleventh position, ahead of Héctor Barberá (Mapfre Aspar). motogp.com
Pos. Num. Rider Team Time 1 1 Jorge LORENZO Yamaha Factory Racing 1'22.056 2 26 Dani PEDROSA Repsol Honda Team 1'22.197 3 27 Casey STONER Repsol Honda Team 1'22.231 4 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Repsol Honda Team 1'22.537 5 11 Ben SPIES Yamaha Factory Racing 1'22.615 6 58 Marco SIMONCELLI San Carlo Honda Gresini 1'22.803 7 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1'23.056 8 14 Randy DE PUNIET Pramac Racing Team 1'23.135 9 5 Colin EDWARDS Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1'23.183 10 69 Nicky HAYDEN Ducati Team 1'23.195 11 46 Valentino ROSSI Ducati Team 1'23.369 12 8 Hector BARBERA Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP 1'23.424 13 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1'23.707 14 17 Karel ABRAHAM Cardion AB Motoracing 1'23.811 15 24 Toni ELIAS LCR Honda MotoGP 1'23.830 16 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA San Carlo Honda Gresini 1'24.590 17 65 Loris CAPIROSSI Pramac Racing Team 1'24.663
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