Confident start for the Repsol Honda Team in Brno

2013-08-23 15:48
Round eleven of the MotoGP World Championship kicked off today in the Czech Republic. Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa and Championship leader Marc Marquez had a productive day aboard their Honda RC213V machines.

Dani was third fastest in the combined times with a time of 1'56.600 on lap 11 of 16, just 0.1s off the fastest time (Stefan Bradl 1'56.500). Teammate Marc was 5th fastest for the day with his best lap of 1'56.733 arriving on lap 7 of 17.


Dani Pedrosa
Dani Pedrosa 3rd 1'56.600
"Today was a little more difficult than expected, as I felt more pain than I have in the past few days. I was unable to ride at 100%, but still we were able to have two good sessions. We tried some different setups with the bike and different tyres. Let's see if tomorrow I feel better and can improve aspects of the bike to lower my time"

Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez 5th 1'56.733
"I felt really good from the start which is good news! I thought it would take a little more time and that we would be further behind Jorge and Valentino, as they have tested at this circuit recently. In general, the feeling was good but there are still aspects of the setup where we can improve a lot, which will hopefully give us more comfort and in the end more speed. I'm not worried, we know that tomorrow the times will come down, but we must continue working in the same way and focus, because we know that we can perfect the setup"


Practice Results

1 Stefan Bradl 1'56.500 GER HONDA LCR Honda MotoGP
2 Jorge Lorenzo 1'56.538 SPA YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing
3 Dani Pedrosa 1'56.600 SPA HONDA Repsol Honda Team
4 Valentino Rossi 1'56.726 ITA YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing
5 Marc Marquez 1'56.733 SPA HONDA Repsol Honda Team
6 Cal Crutchlow 1'56.800 GBR YAMAHA Monster Yamaha Tech 3
7 Bradley Smith 1'57.351 GBR YAMAHA Monster Yamaha Tech 3
8 Alvaro Bautista 1'57.401 SPA HONDA Go & Fun Honda Gresini
9 Andrea Dovizioso 1'57.754 ITA DUCATI Ducati Team
10 Nicky Hayden 1'57.896 USA DUCATI Ducati Team
11 Andrea Iannone 1'58.039 ITA DUCATI Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Team
12 Aleix Espargaro 1'58.217 SPA ART Power Electronics Aspar
13 Michele Pirro 1'58.958 ITA DUCATI Ignite Pramac Racing Team
14 Hector Barbera 1'59.235 SPA FTR Avintia Blusens
15 Claudio Corti 1'59.288 ITA FTR-KAWASAKI NGM Mobile Forward Racing
16 Colin Edwards 1'59.390 USA FTR-KAWASAKI NGM Mobile Forward Racing
17 Yonny Hernandez 1'59.539 COL PBM Paul Bird Motorsport
18 Hiroshi Aoyama 1'59.613 JAP FTR Avintia Blusens
19 Danilo Petrucci 1'59.719 ITA IODA-SUTER Came IodaRacing Project
20 Randy De Puniet 1'59.799 FRA SUZUKI Suzuki Test Team
21 Michael Laverty 2'00.338 GBR PBM Paul Bird Motorsport
22 Karel Abraham 2'00.413 CZE ART Cardion AB Motoracing
23 Martin Bauer 2'00.730 AUT S&B SUTER Remus Racing Team
24 Lukas Pesek 2'01.549 CZE IODA-SUTER Came IodaRacing Project
25 Bryan Staring 2'01.746 AUS FTR-HONDA Go & Fun Honda Gresini

Circuit information


First race 1987
GPs held 36
Laps 22
Race distance 118.866km / 73.854 miles
Track length 5.403km / 3.357 miles
Track width 15m
Longest straight 0.636km / 0.395 miles
Corners 14 (8 right, 6 left)
Pole position Left

Automotodrom Brno
P.O.Box 1
641 00 Brno
Czech Republic
www.automotodrombrno.cz




Circuit records


Pole position 1m 55.799s (167.970km/h) Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha, 2012)
Race lap 1m 56.274s (167.284km/h) Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha, 2012)
Race time 42m 51.570s (166.403km/h) Dani Pedrosa (Honda, 2012)
2012 Winner Dani Pedrosa (Honda)

Source: Repsol Honda Team

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