Xerox Ducati’s Michel Fabrizio headed the top of chart in today’s first day of testing at the Imola edging out Ben Spies by 0.
098 seconds in the final minutes of the test.
Spies putting in 62 laps against Fabrizio’s 48 laps.
Third went to Jonathan Rea and today’s surprise was BMW’s Ruben Xaus who was fourth.
Evidently last week’s private test at Mugello has paid off for the Spanish rider while Troy Corser was left struggling in 18th.
Carlos Checa who led in this morning’s session, fell back to fifth.
Noriyuki Haga, who is still recovering from his injuries picked during the Donington round, will not be testing, but he did show up at the Imola track yesterday for a quick check up at the Clinica Mobile and confirmed that he will be back for the Brno round on July 26th.
Testing will resume tomorrow morning.
Wednesday test times after the jump:1 84 Fabrizio M.
(ITA) Ducati 1098R 1′49.
1642 19 Spies B.
(USA) Yamaha YZF R1 1′49.
2623 65 Rea J.
(GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1′49.
6844 111 Xaus R.
(ESP) BMW S1000 RR 1′49.
8235 7 Checa C.
(ESP) Honda CBR1000RR 1′49.
8426 67 Byrne S.
(GBR) Ducati 1098R 1′50.
3057 66 Sykes T.
(GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1′50.
4028 91 Haslam L.
(GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1′50.
5869 57 Lanzi L.
(ITA) Ducati 1098R 1′50.
79710 71 Kagayama Y.
(JPN) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′50.
86111 9 Kiyonari R.
(JPN) Honda CBR1000RR 1′50.
86812 56 Nakano S.
(JPN) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1′51.
05513 121 Hopkins J.
(USA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′51.
27014 76 Neukirchner M.
(GER) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′51.
27615 14 Lagrive M.
(FRA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′51.
33916 53 Polita A.
(ITA) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′51.
68317 3 Biaggi M.
(ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1′51.
73818 11 Corser T.
(AUS) BMW S1000 RR 1′51.
74619 10 Nieto F.
(ESP) Ducati 1098R 1′51.
90920 100 Tamada M.
(JPN) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′52.
00821 23 Parkes B.
(AUS) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′52.
48222 77 Iannuzzo V.
(ITA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′53.
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