MotoGP – Mugello FP3 – Checa's time!!

Times you wouldn't believe!! They are the ones scored this morning in the third free practice session by Carlos Checa, Alex Barros and Valentino Rossi. In fact, the riders from Ducati, Honda and Yamaha recorded incredible times, clearly outpacing the competition. Checa led his Ducati to break the 50 minute and 1 minute mark, even clocking 49'916"1!! Right at the end of practice, Barros ousted Rossi from second place, clocking 50'029"1 while the champion from Pesaro lapped in 50'091"XNUMX.

The first 3 riders are therefore within 175 thousandths of a second while Loris Capirossi, who achieved the 4th fastest time, has a gap of 518 thousandths from his teammate Checa. Behind the Ducati rider we find Gibernau (+ 529), Melandri (+ 801), Biaggi (+ 803) and Hayden (+ 931).

All the other riders have a gap of more than a second, starting with Nakano who has the ninth fastest time and is followed by Edwards, Tamada, Hopkins, Roberts, Hofmann, Xaus, Bayliss, D. Checa, Byrne, Rolfo, Ellison and Battaini.

These are the times:
01 7 C.Checa Ducati 1'49"916
02 4 A.Barros Honda 1'50"029 + 0'00"113
03 46 V.Rossi Yamaha 1'50"091 + 0'00"175
04 65 L.Capirossi Ducati 1'50"434 + 0'00"518
05 15 S.Gibernau Honda 1'50"445 + 0'00"529
06 33 M.Melandri Honda 1'50"717 + 0'00"801
07 3 M.Biaggi Honda 1'50"719 + 0'00"803
08 69 N.Hayden Honda 1'50"847 + 0'00"931
09 56 S.Nakano Kawasaki 1'50"913 + 0'00"997
10 5 C.Edwards Yamaha 1'51"054 + 0'01"138
11 6 M.Tamada Honda 1'51"215 + 0'01"299
12 21 J.Hopkins Suzuki 1'51"327 + 0'01"411
13 10 K.Roberts Suzuki 1'51"822 + 0'01"906
14 66 A.Hofmann Kawasaki 1'52"187 + 0'02"271
15 11 R.Xaus Yamaha 1'52"299 + 0'02"383
16 12 T.Bayliss Honda 1'52"638 + 0'02"722
17 94 D.Checa Yamaha 1'53"556 + 0'03"640
18 67 S.Byrne Proton 1'53"727 + 0'03"811
19 44 R.Rolfo Ducati 1'54"126 + 0'04"210
20 77 J.Ellison Blata 1'55"203 + 0'05"287
21 27 F.Battaini Blata 1'55"270 + 0'05"354