It is still raining Jerez de la Frontera and the weather plus the wet tires continue to play an important part in today’s MotoGP final free practice.
Dani Pedrosa topped the timesheets once again, but lap times were slightly more tighter than yesterday for the first five riders and everyone improved their lap time, except for Valentino Rossi.
The Repsol Honda rider posted a 1.
50.
121 lap, but title rivals Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner who struggled during FP2, this morning were just 0.
111s and 0.
334s adrift.
Ducati’s Nicky Hayden put his GP12 into fourth and was only 0.
040s from his former team mate, while Cal Crutchlow on the satellite Yamaha was fifth and the last rider to be within a 1 second from Pedrosa.
After yesterday’s euforia, Valentino Rossi dropped to sixth and was back to his usual 1.
4-1.
5 second gap despite the rain, and he was as we mentioned before the only rider not to better his lap times.
Rossi was followed by Andrea Dovizioso, Stefan Bradl and Karel Abraham.
Randy de Puniet put his ART/CRT bike into the 10th spot, 0.
272s faster than Yamaha factory rider Ben Spies (11th) and almost half a second quicker than Hector Barbera (12th) on the Ducati GP12.
Yonny Hernandez was 13th and he was a mere 0.
054s from the Pramac rider.
Alvaro Bautista crashed out at the first turn when even more rain started to fall towards the end of the session.
MotoGP Jerez MotoGP FP3 results:01- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – 1’50.
12102- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
11103- Casey Stoner – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.
33404- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 0.
37405- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
57106- Valentino Rossi – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 1.
48007- Andrea Dovizioso – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
49408- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 1.
54009- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 1.
57910- Randy De Puniet – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP12 – + 1.
85111- Ben Spies – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 2.
10712- Hector Barbera – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 2.
55513- Yonny Hernandez – Avintia Blusens – FTR Kawasaki – + 2.
60914- Mattia Pasini – Speed Master Team – ART GP12 – + 2.
63315- Alvaro Bautista – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 2.
63516- Michele Pirro – San Carlo Honda Gresini – FTR Honda – + 3.
36817- Colin Edwards – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – Suter BMW – + 3.
46218- Danilo Petrucci – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda TR003 – + 3.
47419- James Ellison – Paul Bird Motorsport – ART GP12 – + 3.
49120- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP12 – + 3.
69921- Ivan Silva – Avintia Blusens – FTR Kawasaki – + 4.
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