Casey Stoner leads the first free practice rounds at Le Mans- MotoGP News
The French track, Le Mans is known to be one of Yamaha’s favourite tracks, but the Honda fighters including Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso, have won the first free practice sessions at the Le Mans in style.
The Repsol Honda trio have earned the top three places with Honda satellite rider, Marco Simoncelli in fourth place, followed by the Championship points leader Jorge Lorenzo in fifth place.
Stoner headed the session, while third round winner, Pedrosa was 0.298 seconds off the pace of Stoner and Andrea Dovizioso was 0.675 seconds behind his Australian teammate.
The Italian from San Carlo Honda Gresini, Simoncelli was 0.896 seconds behind Stoner and finally, Jorge Lorenzo was a second away from the top spot, completing the top five slots.
Jorge Lorenzo was the only man in top five without a Honda machine. He has scored two consecutive wins at the French venue in the past two seasons. The Spaniard's best lap time was 1.032 seconds slower than that of Stoner's.
The Ducati team rider, Valentino Rossi was sixth fastest on the time sheet. It was due to the newly designed chassis in his Desmosedici that Rossi suffered a bit. Rossi was followed by the French rider Randy De Puniet for Pramac Racing team. Eighth was Nicky
Hayden completing the Ducati GP11 triple seat, chased by the Monster Yamaha Tech rider Cal Crutchlow in ninth and Lorenzo’s teammate Ben Spies was at tenth place.
The final results of the session are given below:
1. Casey Stoner AUS Repsol Honda Team - 1m 34.133s
2. Dani Pedrosa ESP Repsol Honda Team - 1m 34.431s
3. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team - 1m 34.808s
4. Marco Simoncelli ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini - 1m 35.029s
5. Jorge Lorenzo ESP Yamaha Factory Racing - 1m 35.165s
6. Valentino Rossi ITA Ducati Marlboro Team - 1m 35.414s
7. Randy de Puniet FRA Pramac Racing Team - 1m 35.687s
8. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro Team - 1m 35.721s
9. Cal Crutchlow GBR Monster Yamaha Tech - 3 1m 35.731s
10. Ben Spies USA Yamaha Factory Racing - 1m 35.743s
11. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech - 3 1m 35.871s
12. Loris Capirossi ITA Pramac Racing Team - 1m 36.410s
13. Hiroshi Aoyama JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini - 1m 36.448s
14. Alvaro Bautista ESP Rizla Suzuki MotoGP - 1m 36.510s
15. Toni Elias ESP LCR Honda MotoGP - 1m 36.997s
16. Hector Barbera ESP Mapfre Aspar Team - 1m 37.036s
17. Karel Abraham CZE Cardion AB Motoracing - 1m 37.154s
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