MotoGP Jerez, Free Practice 2: Marquez in the lead, Dovizioso 3rd, Rossi 4th
The reigning champion precedes Aleix Espargarò, who remains the fastest with this morning's time
The second free practice session of the MotoGP class in Jerez de la Frontera (first European race of 2014) saw the riders take to the track in truly difficult weather conditions. The air temperature reached 32°, while the asphalt temperature reached 52°.
In this climate the fastest was the reigning champion Marc Marquez, who recorded a 1:39.757, a time that allowed him to precede Aleix Espargarò by 216 thousandths, thus confirming the form shown this morning in the Free Practice 1, when he achieved the best time with a time of 1:39.357.
The Italians' performance was very positive, with Andrea Dovizioso placing his Ducati in third position, immediately ahead of Valentino Rossi's Yamaha, which in turn precedes team-mate Jorge Lorenzo.
Sixth time for Dani Pedrosa (winner here last year), seventh for Alvaro Bautista and eighth for Stefan Bradl, all on Honda, the first from Team Repsol, the second from Team Gresini and the third from Team LCR.
Ninth time for Andrea Iannone and tenth for Nicky Hayden, riding the Team Aspar Honda Open. Followed by Pol Espargarò, Michele Pirro (riding the GP14 and present here as a wild card) and Yonny Hernandez, riding the second GP14 of Team Pramac.
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MotoGP Free Practice 2 Jerez - Spanish GP - Times
| Pos | Num | Rider | Motorcycle | Team | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Francis Bagnaia | DucatiLenovoTeam | 1:36.025 | ||
| 2 | 12 | Maverick Vinales | aprilia-racing | 1:36.125 | +0.100 | |
| 3 | 93 | Marc Marquez | Gresini Racing MotoGP | 1:36.168 | +0.143 | |
| 4 | 72 | Marco Bezzecchi | Pertamina Enduro Vr46 Racing Team | 1:36.364 | +0.339 | |
| 5 | 89 | George Martin | First Pramac Racing | 1:36.435 | +0.410 | |
| 6 | 31 | Peter Acosta | Red Bull Gasgas Tech3 | 1:36.439 | +0.414 | |
| 7 | 41 | Alex Espargaro | aprilia-racing | 1:36.446 | +0.421 | |
| 8 | 23 | Enea Bastianini | DucatiLenovoTeam | 1:36.480 | +0.455 | |
| 9 | 49 | Fabio DiGiannantonio | Pertamina Enduro Vr46 Racing Team | 1:36.536 | +0.511 | |
| 10 | 73 | Alex Marquez | Gresini Racing MotoGP | 1:36.539 | +0.514 | |
| 11 | 33 | Brad Binder | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1:36.644 | +0.619 | |
| 12 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | First Pramac Racing | 1:36.711 | +0.686 | |
| 13 | 43 | Jack Miller | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1:36.900 | +0.875 | |
| 14 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1:36.944 | +0.919 | |
| 15 | 42 | alex rins | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | 1:36.959 | +0.934 | |
| 16 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Lcr Honda | 1:36.969 | +0.944 | |
| 17 | 25 | Raul fernandez | Trackhouse Racing | 1:37.111 | +1.086 | |
| 18 | 5 | Johann zarco | Lcr Honda | 1:37.277 | +1.252 | |
| 19 | 88 | Miguel Oliveira | Trackhouse Racing | 1:37.342 | +1.317 | |
| 20 | 20 | fabio quartararo | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | 1:37.382 | +1.357 | |
| 21 | 36 | Joan mir | Repsol Honda Team | 1:37.476 | +1.451 | |
| 22 | 37 | Augusto Fernandez | Red Bull Gasgas Tech3 | 1:37.611 | +1.586 | |
| 23 | 6 | Stefan bradl | HRC Test Team | 1:37.709 | +1.684 | |
| 24 | 10 | Luca marini | Repsol Honda Team | 1:37.838 | +1.813 | |
| 25 | 32 | Lorenzo Savadori | aprilia-racing | 1:37.902 | +1.877 | |
Jerez - Spanish GP - Free Practice 2 results
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Marquez will definitely take pole, but looking at the pace, both Rossi Lorenzo and Pedrosa are 2-3 tenths away from Marc... I think the race will perhaps be a little open. Pedrosa should risk a little more... if he stays behind marc even on his favorite tracks it will get worse and worse.
…it will get worse for you too if you stay in Italy and in this forum ahahahahahah!!!
For once you are giving good advice fatman..if I could I would go away :)
What you can see when you look at the laps is bad, it's that Marquez has the best pace, then Rossi Loreno and Pedrosa arrive, all very close.
It seems to me that this time Marquez too isn't looking for Pole at all costs for now, he's working a lot on race pace like the others, Dovi and Espargarò have nothing to do with them, they set those times only in semi-qualifying setup, the pace the race, especially Dovizioso's, is very far away.
In the end I believe that the official HRC and Yamaha will be in the first 2 rows at the start and will obviously fight for the podium without any particular incidents.
Looking at the sectors it seems that the situation from a few years ago has changed a lot, now the Honda is the best bike on slow mixed terrain, and the Yamaha only gets by in the fast corners, and in reality I believe that as soon as the Hondas start to actually cut back on the curbs the advantage will disappear even in those curves.
Today seeing the onboard of the bike that followed Rossi when he was doing some fairly fast laps, I was saying but this is a good bike, look at how it recovers on the road on a Yamaha and Rossi isn't going for a walk, they remove the onboard and Pedrosa is the rider behind to Rossi. In short, I think we will see Honda's real advantage a little in qualifying and certainly in the race, the values have not changed, perhaps Pedrosa is a little further behind than Marquez because he is taking fewer risks or is working a lot more on the set-up of the bike with a full tank which seems to be his Achilles heel a little more given that in the early stages he isn't fast enough while at the end of the race he seemed to keep a good pace last GP.
...at least you will have the excuse to say: what a boring race...let's hope the geriatrician wins by separation anyway...hope is the last to die...but it dies!!!
I was just about to ask you who "would win", I expected it to be the first post, but instead it's the second.
I agree, by detachment acco acco acco.
If we run with these temperatures during the race too, I believe that the winner will not be the fastest but the one who will best adopt a tactic to save the tires and avoid hitting the canvas halfway through the race...
If I understand correctly, for the race they have the Medium because the Hard is not available here, the one that Marquez likes the most and I would say also Rossi given the last race. If Pedrosa and Lorenzo don't win here I see it as tough for them, because here too Marq is forced to use the Media on the rear which he had always snubbed up to this point in the race.
...look, Marc would also win on the rims...he easily beat the unbeatable in melee when he was at 50%...let alone now that he's well...there's no rubber that can hold up!!!
Let's see if the forced choice of medium will give some more changes to Lorenzo or primarily to Pedrosa, currently the championship seems to be going one way because Lorenzo has run into two "bad" days one after the other, Pedrosa doesn't seem to be going for the moment able to put the wheels in front of his teammate in a decisive manner (as well as Lorenzo with Marc), Rossi and the others are for various reasons cut out of the title fight, the only one would be if Iwata's bike made a step decided to close the gap with Honda...I would say more of a half-miracle because it's not that the M1 is going badly and that Honda seems to have a bit more in all sectors, the other possibility is a setback for Marc...also if I am convinced that Lorenzo (more than Pedrosa) will immediately go on the attack and try to stem the excessive power of Marquez-Honda...he will try...but it seems difficult to do so unless we have a vehicle with equal effectiveness as the Honda 2014! maybe next year he too will ride a Honda... instead of Dani...
Let's see Stonami, Lorenzo's attitude, whether for the podium or for the race in Spain, has changed, every turn he entered and immediately tried to push as we were used to, the first flying lap gave everyone 5-7 tenths, the problem is that both Rossi and Marquez improved his time shortly afterwards while he remained at that level.
The most worrying thing is that Marquez dropped more than half a second then for some reason he reached the finish line with 350 thousandths or so of Rossi's time, I believe that Marquez has much more than what he showed on the flying lap , and perhaps also on the pace, and perhaps also Pedrosa, who has that tactic of hiding until qualifying and the race.
I have never been very interested in the results of free practice, except to have a minimal idea of the values on the field, but then again, they have never interested me.
The most important news for me about these tests is related to the statements made shortly before the tests by the owner of the Forward team. In essence he will argue with Colin to make him retire earlier than expected... And the driver he has his eye on is the good Danilo Petrucci.
I'm sorry for Colin (who in the event of early retirement will find a place as a test rider to carry on the FTR chassis project), but I hope to see Danilo Petrucci on this bike (obviously he will need some time to show his value).
A driver who in my opinion was a little too underestimated... And I remind everyone that a certain Preziosi really liked this driver (Danilo)...
Who knows… I hope to see him on that vehicle.
Friday's pace doesn't say much, partly because the track will improve, partly because the settings will improve further even if the track is very well known and already these times are not far from the times (race pace) of last year, so I believe they will improve further.
I think it makes more sense to wait for FP4, surely no one will try the single lap because it wouldn't make any sense.
A. Espargaro and Dovizioso used the extrasoft tyres, I haven't seen the tests, but I think that's the case, even if Dovi then completed another 4 laps at the pace he kept in previous outings.
Iannone doesn't feel like it, he prefers the race set-up and Cal seems to be in bad shape.
After all, the usual things, even if exceptional.
Marc is dominating here too.
For Yamaha and Valentino fans: Honda will certainly be better performing than Yamaha, but Marc undoubtedly has something more than the other top riders, Pedrosa gets sucked in and then emerges at the end of the tests, Marc doesn't take him down from the top, if not with cannon fire. A great!!
A great man who is competing against a great many champions. The retired Stoner is missing, but your fans don't blame me if I think I'm not sure who between the 2 would win.
Marc is the only one to have a pace of 1.40.bass, 1.40.mezzo, up to turning in 1.40.alto.
A. Espargaro, starts from 1.40.mezzo,, but then reaches 1.40.alto and 1.41.bass.
Dovi is the one who made the best use of the tyre, his pace goes from 1.41.bass to 1.41.mezzo, even if I'm not sure which tire was used in the last outing.
Valentino turns stronger and more constant than A. Espargaro, even if in the end, the route is identical, from 1.40.mezzo up to 1.41.basso.
Lorenzo lapped a little, with a pace practically identical to that of Vale.
Pedrosa is slower than the 2 Yamaha riders, by 2 tenths, both for 1.40.mezzo (still higher than the time set by the Yamahas), up to 1.41.basso, also slower by 2 tenths.
Bautista and Bradl, 6th and 7th respectively, have a higher pace than that set by Iannone (9th).
Bautista's pace goes from 1.41 low to 1.41 medium, with good consistency.
Same pace, perhaps slightly slower than Bautista, for Bradl too, from 1.41.basso to 1.41.mezzo.
Iannone didn't use the extrasoft tire (or he always used it, I haven't seen the tests) and, of the timed laps where he actually shot, 5 out of 9 were under 1.41, he lapped in 1.40.mezzo and 1.40. high, then reached 1.41.low. Excellent, excellent step indeed even if it is only the 1st day.
Hayden's Open was 10th, high in his times, but cited to underline that he was behind the 2 Yamaha Tec3s, the Ducatis of Cal (but he's okay with that, he's crippled) and Pirro. My warmest compliments also go to him, he is still strong, even riding a "real" Open.
Don't trust Pedrosa's pace, he goes faster than what we have seen and Marquez too in my opinion, they are not using their full potential, either because it was too hot and they didn't want to take out the tires too soon, or because the track is not still well rubberised.
However, we can see that here the limit of the bikes and riders is that of other years, there will be no extreme improvements like in Argentina, even if I believe that Marquez hasn't done a single fast lap, he's also working on his pace like the others. 3.