MotoGP’s first free practice at Le Mans saw Casey Stoner dominate the entire 45 minute session with his lightining fast lap times.
The Australian layed down an blistering 1′34.
133 and was the first rider to break the 1.
35 mark 6 times and almost broke the 1.
34 one, but found some traffic that partially ruined on of his amazing runs.
The only rider who was able to get near to Stoner was his team mate Dani Pedrosa who was just 0.
298s adrift, followed by the other Repsol Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso, who was big 0.
893s from his other team mate.
Marco Simoncelli, who initially seemed to be the only one to take on Stoner, but the scrappy Italian fell back to take fourth behind the factory riders, but it was still four Honda’s RC212V’s in the first four spots.
Jorge Lorenzo was fifth with a little more than a one second gap, while Valentino Rossi who took sixth is still struggling with his Ducati to find the right set-up.
Randy de Puniet stimulated by running in front of his French fans was seventh and less than three tenths of second from Rossi with his Pramac Ducati.
Eighth went Nicky Hayden followed by Cal Crutchlow in ninth with his satellite Yamaha and learning the Le Mans track, while Ben Spies on the factory Yamaha was only tenth and a massive 1.
610s off the top of the chart.
MotoGP Le Mans – FP1 results:01- Casey Stoner – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 1’34.
13302- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.
29803- Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.
67504- Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – + 0.
89605- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
03206- Valentino Rossi – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 1.
28107- Randy De Puniet – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 1.
55408- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 1.
58809- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
59810- Ben Spies – Yamaha Factory Racing Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
61011- Colin Edwards – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
73812- Loris Capirossi – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 2.
27713- Hiroshi Aoyama – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – + 2.
31514- Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki MotoGP – Suzuki GSV-R – + 2.
37715- Toni Elias – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC212V – + 2.
86416- Hector Barbera – Mapfre Aspar Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 2.
90317- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 3.
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