While this morning’s first free practice was fully wet, this afternoon the Valencia track presented itself in mixed conditions, that half damp half dry situation which riders and teams hate because they can’t work on set-up, so it was another wasted session, one of several that we’ve seen this season.
With several riders completely sitting out of practice (Lorenzo, Pedrosa, Stoner, Dovizioso and Bradl) the CRT riders received a lot more air time and Randy de Puniet topped the timesheets with a best lap of 1.
36.
965, before a technical problem on his ART forced him to park his machine.
Michele Pirro was second fastest and a little more than a tenth of a second slower.
Nicky Hayden who was the fastest rider in the wet in FP1, decided to head out in the last minutes and finish third and he was followed by Cardion AB’s Karel Abraham.
Valentino Rossi was fifth, while Danilo Petrucci on the BMW-Suter was 6th and he was followed by Ivan Silva, Roberto Rolfo, James Ellison, Hiroshi Aoyama and Claudio Corti.
Out of the FP2 107% cut despite recording lap times were Crutchlow, Bautista, Nakasuga, Espargaro, Barbera and Colin Edwards.
MotoGP Valencia FP2 results:01- Randy De Puniet – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP12 – 1’36.
965 02- Michele Pirro – San Carlo Honda Gresini – FTR Honda MGP12 – + 0.
119 03- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 0.
424 04- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 0.
817 05- Valentino Rossi – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 1.
150 06- Danilo Petrucci – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW – + 1.
335 07- Ivan Silva – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 1.
339 08- Roberto Rolfo – Speed Master Team – ART GP12 – + 1.
940 09- James Ellison – Paul Bird Motorsport – ART GP12 – + 2.
872 10- Hiroshi Aoyama – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 3.
53211- Claudio Corti – Avintia Blusens – Inmotec – + 6.
028 12- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 7.
419 13- Alvaro Bautista – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 7.
599 14- Katsuyuki Nakasuga – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 8.
215 15- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP12 – + 8.
461 16- Hector Barbera – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP12 – + 8.
713 17- Colin Edwards – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – Suter BMW – + 29.
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