The final MotoGP free practice was a taste of what we’ll see later in Mugello’s QP2 with Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa already facing off on who will take the Italian GP pole position.
In this session with a track temperature of 38°, Dani Pedrosa took command of the timesheets with a best lap of 1.
48.
028 but unable to break the 1.
48 barrier that Lorenzo was able to do this morning.
The Yamaha rider was second fastest and just 0.
095s from his rival.
Stefan Bradl had another impressive session as he continued to be in third position.
Valentino Rossi moved into fourth – but he continues to suffer in the fourth sector and he only improved 0.
002s from yesterday afternoon.
Cal Crutchlow was fifth but he was more than seven tenths adrift from Lorenzo.
Andrea Dovizioso was 6th, while Marc Marquez after his three crashes was a little more cautious this afternoon as he’ll have to take part in QP.
Alvaro Bautista dropped back to 9th and ahead of Nicky Hayden and Michele Pirro, who closed out the top ten.
Hiroshi Aoyama crashed out leaving pieces of his fairings of his Avintia Blusens CRT all over the gravel pit at turn 9 2013 MotoGP Mugello FP4 results: