For MotoGP’s second free practice at Mugello the track had a nice dry line and lap times dropped immediately showing the much improved track conditions, even if they were still a little more than 1 second off of Dani Pedrosa’s 2012 record of 1′47.
284, but last year’s race was held in mid July and with completely different weather conditions.
Valentino Rossi came out of his garage for the 45 minute session with a completely different approach than usual and did three long runs, constantly improving and lowering his lap times with each lap and in every run with an impressive pace in the high 1.
47s.
The Italian held the top of the timesheets for most of the session and then ended up second after team mate Jorge Lorenzo pipped him with his last final flying lap by just 0.
034s.
Third fastest was another Yamaha rider, Cal Crutchlow who put in one of his usual fast laps and ended up +0.
297 from his factory counterparts.
Following the Yamaha trio was Ducati’s Nicky Hayden in fourth and seven tenths adrift and a mere 0.
006s ahead of Dani Pedrosa.
Marc Marquez had a horrific looking crash half way through the session.
The Repsol Honda rookie was starting the first of his fast laps when his RC213V baulked at the end of the straight at the braking point at turn 1(San Donato hairpin) and his foot caught on the right side of his bike and dragged him through the grass at over 250-300km as his Honda scraped against barriers and then dumped him in the gravel trap and leaving him stunned and bent over.
Dr.
Costa’s preliminary report said that Marquez hit his chin, suffered a neck sprain along with numerous bruises.
Marquez ended up 14th.
Andrea Iannone hitched a couple of tows and that let him post the 6th fastest time.
There were some doubts if Andrea Dovizioso could ride this session after hurting his neck during a crash in FP1, but the Ducati rider after undergoing some treatment in the Clinica Mobile was back on track and was 7th.
Stefan Bradl was 8th, while Randy de Puniet put his ART into an excellent 9th, while Michele Pirro and his Ducati ‘laboratory bike’ closed out the top ten.
Bradley Smith crashed at the Savelli and he was reported to have a suspected left arm injury and that left him down in 13th, but still ahead of returnee Ben Spies who was 16th and 2.
7 seconds from Lorenzo.
2013 MotoGP Mugello FP2 results:01- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1’48.
375 02- Valentino Rossi – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
034 03- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
297 04- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
002 05- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 1.
008 06- Andrea Iannone – Energy T.
I.
Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
092 07- Andrea Dovizioso – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
168 08- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 1.
220 09- Randy De Puniet – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 1.
224 (CRT) 10- Michele Pirro – Ducati Test Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
274 11- Alvaro Bautista – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 1.
358 12- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 1.
394 (CRT) 13- Bradley Smith – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
728 14- Marc Marquez – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 1.
835 15- Hector Barbera – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 2.
025 16- Ben Spies – Ignite Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 2.
730 17- Colin Edwards – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Kawasaki – + 3.
058 18- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – ART GP13 – + 3.
153 19- Yonny Hernandez – Paul Bird Motorsport – ART GP13 – + 3.
269 20- Danilo Petrucci – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW – + 3.
562 21- Hiroshi Aoyama – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 3.
807 22- Claudio Corti – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Kawasaki – + 4.
939 23- Michael Laverty – Paul Bird Motorsport – PBM 01 – + 5.
105 24- Bryan Staring – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – FTR Honda MGP13 – + 5.
856 25- Lukas Pesek – CAME IodaRacing Project – Ioda Suter BMW – + 6.
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