Repsol Honda Team continue set-up work for first race of 2012

2012-04-07 07:45
The Repsol Honda Team finished the second day of practice at Losail circuit with Casey Stoner in third position and Dani Pedrosa fifth.

The Australian World Champion set the fastest time in FP2 and was leading in FP3 until others put on a new soft rear to take the fastest time of the day. Casey improved his lap time by 0.3 in the evening even though he remained on hard tyres until the end.

Dani Pedrosa crashed in FP2, without sustaining any injury, and was only able to use one bike in the second session of the evening, whilst his mechanics worked hard to build up the damaged machine. Nevertheless, Dani also improved his lap time by half a second from one session to the other.

The Repsol Honda riders return on track tomorrow night for the first qualifying session of the season, which will decide the starting grid for the Grand Prix of Qatar.

CASEY STONER 3rd. 1'55.674

"Today has been pretty good for us in general, we has some issues in the first two sessions but we've fixed them slightly in last one which is definitely positive. We've been able to turn down the electronics a lot more and now I have more feeling and connection with the rear tyre which gave me a lot more confidence. This allowed me to do some good lap times with some pretty old tyres. A few people got in our way throughout the session so we were unable to show what we were really capable of, but we know how we feel and we're confident for qualifying tomorrow".
DANI PEDROSA 5th. 1'56.114

"The day wasn't as good for us as we would have liked. I had some problems with the electronics and I couldn't ride at a hundred percent, especially in the exits of the corners where we have more issues. Let's hope the mechanics can find a solution and we can have a good qualifying session tomorrow. The crash in the first session was totally unexpected; it was on my first lap of the second exit and I was not pushing at all. But I escaped unhurt and do it's ok".

Practice Results
1 Jorge Lorenzo 1'55.302 SPA YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing Team
2 Cal Crutchlow 1'55.456 GBR YAMAHA Monster Yamaha Tech 3
3 Casey Stoner 1'55.674 AUS HONDA Repsol Honda Team
4 Andrea Dovizioso 1'55.905 ITA YAMAHA Monster Yamaha Tech 3
5 Dani Pedrosa 1'56.114 SPA HONDA Repsol Honda Team
6 Hector Barbera 1'56.163 SPA DUCATI Pramac Racing
7 Nicky Hayden 1'56.402 USA DUCATI Ducati Team
8 Valentino Rossi 1'56.535 ITA DUCATI Ducati Team
9 Ben Spies 1'56.671 USA YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing Team
10 Stefan Bradl 1'56.751 GER HONDA LCR Honda MotoGP
11 Alvaro Bautista 1'56.771 SPA HONDA San Carlo Honda Gresini
12 Karel Abraham 1'57.223 CZE DUCATI Cardion AB Motoracing
13 Randy De Puniet 1'58.261 FRA ART Aspar Team MotoGP
14 Colin Edwards 1'58.310 USA SUTER NGM Mobile Forward Racing
15 Michelle Pirro 1'58.800 ITA HONDA San Carlo Honda Gresini
16 Yonny Hernandez 1'59.087 COL BQR-FTR BQR
17 Aleix Espargaro 1'59.169 ESP ART Aspar Team MotoGP
18 Danilo Petrucci 1'59.517 ITA IODA Ioda Racing Project
19 Ivan Silva 2'00.035 SPA BQR-FTR BQR
20 Mattia Pasini 2'00.226 ITA ART Speed Master
21 James Ellison 2'00.563 GBR ART Paul Bird Racing

Circuit information
First race 2004
GPs held 8
Laps 22
Race distance 118.360km / 73.546miles
Track length 5.380km / 3.343miles
Track width 12m
Longest straight 1,068km / 0.664miles
Corners 16 (10 right, 6 left)
Pole position Left

Source: Repsol Honda Team

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