The team of Jorge Lorenzo topped the top positions in Sepang practice on a day marked by the absence of Honda.
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American Ben Spies and Spanish Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha riders, won the best times in the second day of practice of the International Team Competition (IRTA, for sussiglas in English), convened at the Malaysian circuit of Sepang with the absence of all the Honda riders. Australian Casey Stoner , MotoGP world champion in 2011 and his teammate, Spanish Dani Pedrosa , with the rest of Honda riders, Alvaro Bautista also Spanish and German Stefan Bradl, had to be forced low in training for the problems apparently told him to Pedrosa on his motorcycle, in which control panel is lit red light related to an electronic failure, says the website of the competition.
Without the Honda riders on the track references the finished marking their biggest rivals, the Yamaha riders, who were the protagonists of the second day and finally stopped their best records with just eight thousandths of a second difference between them.
The best time of the day it fell to American Ben Spies, who stopped his stopwatch at 201,285, just eight thousandths ahead of Lorenzo, with 2:01.293, which he succeeded in his fourth lap and then work focused on testing electronics and the engine to improve acceleration at the exit of the curves.
The following positions of the timesheets were for the pilots of the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team, with Italian Andrea Dovizioso and Britain's Cal Crutchlow, who could solve some of the problems that had been the first day with electronics, especially the pilot Alps.
The Ducati riders in contention were as follows, with a fifth place for the American Nicky Hayden , still not recovered from his shoulder injury, followed by Spanish Hector Barbera, the last of the drivers that rolled under the two minutes and two seconds, and Italian Valentino Rossi . Barbera suffered a fall at about noon, after the rainfall at that time, in an area of the plot on which he had accumulated too much water, but fortunately without consequences for their integrity.
Czech rider Karel Abraham, who arrived in Malaysia "touched" by a recent drop in the circuit of Jerez, could not complete in the previous training day on the Ducati Desmosedici GP12 of his team Cardion AB due to discomfort and in this new session even got on the bike, which made the Italian manufacturer's test driver, fellow Italian Franco Battaini.
The differences between MotoGP and the new CRT (Claiming Rules Team) continue to be very large but the fastest of them, the BMW chassis Suter of American Colin Edwards finished ninth to just over four and a half seconds of U.S. registry.
Placed far behind the Kawasaki engine BQR Ivan Silva of Spanish and Colombian Yonny Hernandez.
CLASSIFICATION OFFICER
1. Ben Spies (USA / Yamaha YZR M1) 2:01.285
.2. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP / Yamaha YZR M1) 2:01.293
.3. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA / Yamaha YZR M1) 2:01.522
.4. Cal Crutchlow (GBR / Yamaha YZR M1) 2:01.695
.5. Nicky Hayden (USA / Ducati Desmosedici GP12) 2:01.748
.6. Hector Barbera (ESP / Ducati Desmosedici) 2:01.989
.7. Valentino Rossi (ITA / Ducati Desmosedici GP12) 2:02.130
.8. Franco Battaini (ITA / Ducati Desmosedici) 2:03.566
0.9. Colin Edwards (USA / Suter BMW) 2:05.816
10. Ivan Silva (ESP / BQR Kawasaki) 2:07.813
11. Yonny Hernandez (COL / BQR Kawasaki) 2:08.213.
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/i12dcdJa4nC/Yamaha+Honda+destroys+absence
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