Much better practice session for Alvaro this morning. Compared to yesterday he improved his laptime by 2,5 seconds and closed the gap to the front significantly. He finished the session in 11th position, only 0,8 seconds behind Lorenzo.
The conditions were a bit cooler than yesterday, but again in glorious sunshine. With slightly higher temperatures for the afternoon qualifying it’ll be interesting to see if it might suit the Suzuki even better. In any case it seems like Alvaro and his team were able to work out the grip issues from yesterday and maybe they’ll be able to improve even more for the qualifying.
Bati was posting very consistent laptimes in the second practice, improving bit by bit and never being far off his own fastest laptime. He looks in good shape for a mid-pack fight again tomorrow.
Pos. Rider Team Time Gap 1st/Prev.
1 Jorge LORENZO Fiat Yamaha Team 1’34.627
2 Dani PEDROSA Repsol Honda Team 1’34.731 0.104 / 0.104
3 Casey STONER Ducati Team 1’34.763 0.136 / 0.032
4 Colin EDWARDS Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1’34.774 0.147 / 0.011
5 Valentino ROSSI Fiat Yamaha Team 1’34.981 0.354 / 0.207
6 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Repsol Honda Team 1’35.053 0.426 / 0.072
7 Nicky HAYDEN Ducati Team 1’35.069 0.442 / 0.016
8 Hector BARBERA Paginas Amarillas Aspar 1’35.120 0.493 / 0.051
9 Ben SPIES Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1’35.217 0.590 / 0.097
10 Loris CAPIROSSI Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1’35.222 0.595 / 0.005
11 Alvaro BAUTISTA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1’35.432 0.805 / 0.210
12 Marco MELANDRI San Carlo Honda Gresini 1’35.445 0.818 / 0.013
13 Randy DE PUNIET LCR Honda MotoGP 1’35.636 1.009 / 0.191
14 Aleix ESPARGARO Pramac Racing Team 1’35.790 1.163 / 0.154
15 Marco SIMONCELLI San Carlo Honda Gresini 1’36.040 1.413 / 0.250
16 Hiroshi AOYAMA Interwetten Honda MotoGP 1’36.089 1.462 / 0.049
17 Mika KALLIO Pramac Racing Team 1’36.207 1.580 / 0.118
