Alvaro will start tomorrow’s race from 11th position on the grid after an eventful session.
He started the qualifying well, sitting in 6th place for quite some time, but again didn’t manage to improve enough in the second half of the session to hold the position when everyone else started with softer tyres. However, compared to FP2 he improved his laptime yet again by over a second and he posted some very regular laptimes which is promising for tomorrow’s race. Overall the laptimes are again very close, so we hope there’ll be some close racing at the Indy GP.
Pos. Rider Team Time Gap 1st/Prev.
1 Ben SPIES Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1’40.105
2 Jorge LORENZO Fiat Yamaha Team 1’40.325 0.220 / 0.220
3 Nicky HAYDEN Ducati Team 1’40.336 0.231 / 0.011
4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Repsol Honda Team 1’40.559 0.454 / 0.223
5 Dani PEDROSA Repsol Honda Team 1’40.637 0.532 / 0.078
6 Casey STONER Ducati Team 1’40.664 0.559 / 0.027
7 Valentino ROSSI Fiat Yamaha Team 1’41.005 0.900 / 0.341
8 Marco SIMONCELLI San Carlo Honda Gresini 1’41.092 0.987 / 0.087
9 Colin EDWARDS Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1’41.232 1.127 / 0.140
10 Loris CAPIROSSI Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1’41.512 1.407 / 0.280
11 Alvaro BAUTISTA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1’41.534 1.429 / 0.022
12 Marco MELANDRI San Carlo Honda Gresini 1’41.623 1.518 / 0.089
13 Hiroshi AOYAMA Interwetten Honda MotoGP 1’41.631 1.526 / 0.008
14 Aleix ESPARGARO Pramac Racing Team 1’41.649 1.544 / 0.018
15 Mika KALLIO Pramac Racing Team 1’41.856 1.751 / 0.207
16 Hector BARBERA Paginas Amarillas Aspar 1’41.896 1.791 / 0.040
17 Randy DE PUNIET LCR Honda MotoGP 1’41.923 1.818 / 0.027
