03-09-2010

THE REPSOL HONDA DUO RULED THE MISANO FREE PRACTICE

After America, the Repsol Honda Team got back to Europe and today at Misano Adriatico, the well known circuit of the Italian Riviera, team mates Daniel Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso did not give any opportunity to the other rivals to rule the free practice of the San Marino GP.

Dani Pedrosa was the most shining star of the first day of action at the 12th seasonal appointment. Few laps were enough for Spaniard, who immediately found a positive rhythm which allowed him to clearly move away from the other challengers and reach the first position of the provisional starting grid thanks to the time of 1’34.772, with a 0.612s gap over the rest of the pack.

Today there was a lot of harmony between the Repsol Honda duo, in fact Andrea Dovizioso started his home GP with a very promising position to reach the podium on Sunday. Dovi easily rode his RC212V during the whole hour long session and grasped the second best time of the day with an advantage of 0.060s over Championship leader Jorge Lorenzo.

Fiat Yamaha Spaniard had to witness the Repsol Honda duo success from the third spot, in front of team mate Valentino Rossi, Colin Edwards and Ben Spies who form the second row of the provisional grid. Tomorrow’s qualifying will be a very important moment for the MotoGP challengers as they will battle it out to conquer the best positions of the Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini.


FREE PRACTICE – THE RESULTS

1 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team HONDA 1'34.772
2 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Repsol Honda Team HONDA 1'35.384
3 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Fiat Yamaha Team YAMAHA 1'35.444
4 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Fiat Yamaha Team YAMAHA 1'35.539
5 5 Colin EDWARDS USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA 1'35.834
6 11 Ben SPIES USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA 1'35.892
7 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team DUCATI 1'36.028
8 27 Casey STONER AUS Ducati Team DUCATI 1'36.072
9 33 Marco MELANDRI ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini HONDA 1'36.126
10 65 Loris CAPIROSSI ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI 1'36.277


Moto2

Home hero Alex De Angelis took the best time of 1’40.064 in the free practice session of the Grand Prix of San Marino. The substitute for the JiR Moto2 Team, on board his Motobi, left behind him three challengers who ride a Suter machinery, Julian Simon, Shoya Tomizawa and another Italian Claudio Corti.


125cc

Nicolas Terol started the Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini in the best way ever, taking the first place in the time sheets of the free practice session which was disputed today at the Misano Adriatico circuit. The Bancaja Aspar rider’s best time of 1’44.229 was followed by Marc Marquez, Pol Espargaro and Efren Vazquez. This weekend the current Championship leader will have to pay attention as his advantage in the standings is based on only four points over Terol.

3rd September 2010