Once again the Motorland Aragon circuit conditions were wet for MotoGP’s final free practice and Dani Pedrosa celebrated in 27th birthday by taking the top of the timesheets and despite the tricky surface (a dry line began forming in the finale) lap times were more or less similar to yesterday’s fully wet session.
The Repsol Honda rider was cautious in the beginning, but in the end he was able to post a 2.
00.
940 lap, while Jorge Lorenzo was the second fastest rider and 0.
134s adrift but he was much more constant in his lap time searching for more rear grip.
Ben Spies was third confirming his performance at the Spanish track, while Andrea Dovizioso was just 0.
015s from the factory rider, while his team mate Cal Crutchlow was 6th and he suffered a harmless crash at turn 12 and his M1 picking up tons of mud and ruling him out of the final minutes.
Stefan Bradl separated the two Yamaha Tech3 riders and the three were covered by just one tenth of second.
Karel Abraham was the fastest Ducati rider, his Cardion AB team doing an excellent job with the outdated satellite GP12 despite the Czech rider suffering a crash early on and he was the last rider to be within a second from Pedrosa.
Valentino Rossi was again 8th and suffering his usual 1.
2 seconds gap even with the new chassis and swingarm.
Jonathan Rea snuck into 9th ahead of Nicky Hayden, while Alvaro Bautista was 11th with his new Showa suspensions.
The last prototype rider Hector Barbera finds himself uncomfortable stuck at the back of the grid in a very lonely 19th.
On the CRT side of the grid Aleix Espargaro was 12th ahead of Yonny Hernandez, James Ellison (who has a new engine spec) and Mattia Pasini Colin Edwards, Danilo Petrucci, Randy De Puniet (who did only a few laps), Michele Pirro and David Salom.
MotoGP Motorland Aragon FP3 results:01- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – 2’00.
490 02- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
134 03- Ben Spies – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
222 04- Andrea Dovizioso – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
237 05- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 0.
333 06- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
334 07- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 0.
929 08- Valentino Rossi – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 1.
223 09- Jonathan Rea – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 1.
457 10- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 1.
633 11- Alvaro Bautista – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 2.
117 12- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP12 – + 2.
846 13- Yonny Hernandez – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 3.
132 14- James Ellison – Paul Bird Motorsport – ART GP12 – + 3.
230 15- Mattia Pasini – Speed Master Team – ART GP12 – + 3.
530 16- Colin Edwards – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – Suter BMW – + 3.
672 17- Danilo Petrucci – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW – + 4.
065 18- Randy De Puniet – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP12 – + 4.
122 19- Hector Barbera – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 4.
157 20- Michele Pirro – San Carlo Honda Gresini – FTR Honda MGP12 – + 4.
526 21- David Salom – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 5.
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