Confident start for Marquez in first outing at Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix

2013-07-19 14:56
This morning at a cold and misty Laguna Seca, Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez completed his first session in preparation for this weekend's Grand Prix. Marc did a total of three exits and 23 laps with his fastest time of 1'22.980 arriving on his final lap and placing him 3rd fastest, just 0.223s off the top time.

His teammate, Dani Pedrosa, did not take part in FP1. After being declared fit this morning by the circuit's medical team following his crash in Germany, Dani chose to sit out this morning's session and will wait for FP2 this afternoon when track conditions are hopefully warmer.


Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez 3rd 1'22.980
"This morning I felt good on the bike, especially at the end, but at the moment the lap times are pretty slow as the track conditions weren't so good. It was difficult to find confidence as it was foggy and misty with some water gathering on the visor, but thankfully the sun is coming out now so I hope this afternoon will be better! We still need to improve in a few areas as this is our first time here with a different racing line and we need to work on different set ups"

Dani Pedrosa
Dani Pedrosa DNS
"I'm feeling a little better and decided to wait for this afternoon before going out on track. I haven't done any exercise since the crash which was almost a week ago so I still don't know my level. I need to go out and see how I feel, this is a difficult track with no areas to rest, so it will be hard but we'll try this afternoon"


Practice Results

1 Cal Crutchlow 1'22.757 GBR YAMAHA Monster Yamaha Tech 3
2 Valentino Rossi 1'22.848 ITA YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing
3 Marc Marquez 1'22.980 SPA HONDA Repsol Honda Team
4 Stefan Bradl 1'23.033 GER HONDA LCR Honda MotoGP
5 Alvaro Bautista 1'23.255 SPA HONDA Go & Fun Honda Gresini
6 Andrea Dovizioso 1'23.380 ITA DUCATI Ducati Team
7 Aleix Espargaro 1'23.905 SPA ART Power Electronics Aspar
8 Nicky Hayden 1'23.927 USA DUCATI Ducati Team
9 Bradley Smith 1'24.287 GBR YAMAHA Monster Yamaha Tech 3
10 Randy De Puniet 1'24.363 FRA SUZUKI Suzuki Test Team
11 Jorge Lorenzo 1'24.441 SPA YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing
12 Hector Barbera 1'24.467 SPA FTR Avintia Blusens
13 Alex De Angelis 1'25.133 RSM DUCATI Ignite Pramac Racing Team
14 Yonny Hernandez 1'25.309 COL PBM Paul Bird Motorsport
15 Karel Abraham 1'25.394 CZE ART Cardion AB Motoracing
16 Hiroshi Aoyama 1'25.451 JAP FTR Avintia Blusens
17 Danilo Petrucci 1'25.594 ITA IODA-SUTER Came IodaRacing Project
18 Colin Edwards 1'25.664 USA FTR-KAWASAKI NGM Mobile Forward Racing
19 Claudio Corti 1'25.770 ITA FTR-KAWASAKI NGM Mobile Forward Racing
20 Michael Laverty 1'26.659 GBR PBM Paul Bird Motorsport
21 Blake Young 1'26.668 USA APR CRT Attack Performance
22 Bryan Staring 1'26.753 AUS FTR-HONDA Go & Fun Honda Gresini
23 Lukas Pesek 1'27.825 CZE IODA-SUTER Came IodaRacing Project
24 Dani Pedrosa DNS SPA HONDA Repsol Honda Team

Circuit information


First race 1988
GPs held 14
Laps 32
Race distance 115.520km / 71.776 miles
Track length 3.610km / 2.243 miles
Track width 15m
Longest straight 0.453km / 0.282 miles
Corners 11 (4 right, 7 left)
Pole position Right

1021 Monterey Salinas Hwy
Monterey
CA 93940
United States

www.mazdaraceway.com




Circuit records


Pole position 1m 20.554s (161.332km/h) Jorge Lorenz (Yamaha, 2012)
Race lap 1m 21.229s (159.992km/h) Dani Pedrosa (Honda, 2012)
Race time 43m 45.961s (158.369km/h) Casey Stoner (Honda, 2012)
2012 Winner Casey Stoner (Honda)

Source: Repsol Honda Team

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