Dani Pedrosa has led a Honda domination of the opening day of practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
With Yamaha’s 2010 World Champion Jorge Lorenzo sidelined by a hand injury sustained at Phillip Island last weekend, Honda riders swept the top five positions in practice at Sepang.
Pedrosa’s best effort of 2:01.25s was a full 0.82s faster than the newly crowned World Champion Casey Stoner, while Andrea Dovizioso was a further 0.59s adrift in third.
Gresini duo Marco Simoncelli and Hiroshi Aoyama rounded out the top five, while Colin Edwards was best of the rest on his Tech 3 Yamaha in sixth.
Lorenzo’s replacement, Yamaha test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga, completed the 18 bike field, 1.39s down on the next slowest rider.
See below for the Practice 2 result
|
Pos. |
Rider |
Team |
Bike |
Time |
| 1 | Dani PEDROSA | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 2’01.250 |
| 2 | Casey STONER | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 2’02.070 |
| 3 | Andrea DOVIZIOSO | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 2’02.664 |
| 4 | Marco SIMONCELLI | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 2’02.823 |
| 5 | Hiroshi AOYAMA | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 2’02.951 |
| 6 | Colin EDWARDS | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 2’02.991 |
| 7 | Alvaro BAUTISTA | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 2’03.123 |
| 8 | Randy DE PUNIET | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | 2’03.159 |
| 9 | Ben SPIES | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 2’03.312 |
| 10 | Karel ABRAHAM | Cardion AB Motoracing | Ducati | 2’03.318 |
| 11 | Nicky HAYDEN | Ducati Team | Ducati | 2’03.445 |
| 12 | Loris CAPIROSSI | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | 2’03.595 |
| 13 | Valentino ROSSI | Ducati Team | Ducati | 2’03.677 |
| 14 | John HOPKINS | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 2’03.885 |
| 15 | Cal CRUTCHLOW | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 2’03.901 |
| 16 | Toni ELIAS | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 2’04.071 |
| 17 | Hector BARBERA | Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP | Ducati | 2’04.603 |
| 18 | Katsuyuki NAKASUGA | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 2’05.996 |
