Casey Stoner lead the top of the charts in today’s MotoGP free practice at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The Ducati rider using the new 2011 Öhlins forks was the only rider to go under the 1.
41 mark and precisely his best lap was 1′40″884 and that was enought to leave Jorge Lorenzo now known as Iron Man, in second and a little more than two tenths from the Australian.
The third spot went to Nicky Hayden who is still nursing a chipped radius from his Brno qualifying crash, lowsided again with 13 minutes left in the session, and was seen holding his left hand again, but it seems he didn’t aggravate his injury.
Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi were fourth and fifth respectively and both struggled through out the hour session.
Pedrosa was able to move up the time chart with eight minutes to go while Rossi was going through front end problems on his M1 could manage the fifth spot only on his very last run and this doesn’t bode well for his weekend.
Colin Edwards took sixth and Andrea Dovizioso was seventh.
Ben Spies who will be in the Yamaha factory team next season, ran as high up as first and stayed in the top four for most of the session and was lighting up another red light on the charts when he was caught out by a lowside and his best time left him in eighth.
Completing the top ten were Aleix Espargaro in ninth and Marco Melandri in tenth.
Hirosh Aoyama and Randy de Puniet who are both recovering from their serious injuries were 16th and 17th.
MotoGP Indianapolis FP1 Results:01- Casey Stoner – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1′40.
88402- Jorge Lorenzo – Fiat Yamaha Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
22503- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – + 0.
52104- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.
53705- Valentino Rossi – Fiat Yamaha Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
73906- Colin Edwards – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
78007- Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.
79908- Ben Spies – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
83809- Aleix Espargaro – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – + 1.
10810- Marco Melandri – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – + 1.
26311- Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – + 1.
38412- Hector Barbera – Paginas Amarillas Aspar – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – + 1.
48413- Mika Kallio – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – + 1.
71614- Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki MotoGP – Suzuki GSV-R – + 1.
81215- Loris Capirossi – Rizla Suzuki MotoGP – Suzuki GSV-R – + 1.
90616- Hiroshi Aoyama – Interwetten Honda MotoGP – Honda RC212V – + 1.
99017- Randy De Puniet – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC212V – + 2.
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