It was raining during this morning’s MotoGP 20 minute warm-up practice at Valencia, something fully expected and despite the treacherous conditions the session was actually entertaining with handful of riders exchanging the top spot as they found their confidence on wet tires lap after lap.
Andrea Dovizioso ended being the fastest rider posting a 1’44″197 with his final lap, that left LCR’s Stefan Bradl in second and 0.
122s adrift.
As usual in the wet the Ducati’s came through, Valentino Rossi who will start in 11th on the grid this afternoon took third followed by Nicky Hayden- who was fastest in the opening practice on Friday morning in the same conditions – and he was just 0.
002 adrift from his departing team mate.
Closely tailing the Ducati duo was Alvaro Bautista who followed by Cal Crutchlow.
The front row qualifiers, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner were further down the charts, not taking any risks at all as Lorenzo was 7th, Dani Pedrosa 10th and Casey Stoner who already said that he’s not taking any chances of further damaging his ankle in the wet in his final race before retirement was 11th and over 1.
8 seconds from Dovizioso – but expect him to forget about his ankle and go into racing mode when he lowers his visor and the lights go out.
MotoGP Valencia warm-up results:01- Andrea Dovizioso – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1’44.
197 02- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 0.
122 03- Valentino Rossi – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 0.
357 04- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 0.
359 05- Alvaro Bautista – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 0.
361 06- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
505 07- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
845 08- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP12 – + 1.
270 09- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 1.
337 10- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 1.
488 11- Casey Stoner – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 1.
885 12- James Ellison – Paul Bird Motorsport – ART GP12 – + 1.
939 13- Katsuyuki Nakasuga – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 2.
240 14- Randy De Puniet – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP12 – + 2.
343 15- Ivan Silva – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 2.
396 16- Danilo Petrucci – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW – + 3.
308 17- Colin Edwards – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – Suter BMW – + 3.
651 18- Michele Pirro – San Carlo Honda Gresini – FTR Honda MGP12 – + 4.
023 19- Hector Barbera – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 4.
542 20- Claudio Corti – Avintia Blusens – Inmotec – + 4.
619 21- Roberto Rolfo – Speed Master Team – ART GP12 – + 6.
145 22- Hiroshi Aoyama – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 8.
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