MotoGP: Sepang Test Day 3 at 15pm, a stratospheric Marquez precedes Pedrosa and Iannone, Rossi is 00th

Sepang 1 MotoGP test – Third and final day of testing on the Sepang circuit, scene of the first IRTA test session in February.

Stratospheric times in the morning, the two-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez stopped the clock at a time of 1:58.867, the only rider at the moment to break the 59:0.139 minute barrier! The Spaniard got it on his eighth lap, leading his team-mate Dani Pedrosa by 213s. The two focused on the mix between the 2014 and 2015 RCXNUMXV.

Two Repsol Hondas are therefore in the lead, preceding two Italians, Andrea Iannone from Abruzzo, riding the Ducati GP14.3 and Valentino Rossi from Pesaro, riding the Yamaha M1.

An amazing performance from the rider from Vasto, in his second outing as an official Ducati rider after the test in Valencia. The GP14.3 seems to "digest" the roughness of the Malaysian track perfectly and Iannone seems to have achieved that feeling that allows him to enter perfect corners. A result that brings great optimism to the Borgo Panigale garage.

For his part, Valentino Rossi follows him by just 13 thousandths and compared to yesterday he is behind (0.223s) his teammate Jorge Lorenzo. The Pesaro rider seems to have resolved the chattering problem that bothered him yesterday.

Pol Espargarò with the Yamaha Factory of Team Tech 3 and Andrea Dovizioso with the second official Ducati also managed to lap under two minutes, exactly in 1:59.851 and 1:59.874.

Closing out the Top Ten are the Yamaha Open of the German Stefan Bradl, the Factory of the British Bradley Smith and the Suzuki of the Spaniard Aleix Espargarò, who stops 1.619 from the top. A great result for the Hamamatsu house, which gives confidence to the men led by Davide Brivio.

Eleventh time for the British Cal Crutchlow, riding the Honda of Team LCR. The former Ducati rider precedes an excellent Maverick Vinales, who has improved greatly compared to the first two days.

The second Suzuki rider is ahead of Danilo Petrucci from Terni, who lapped in 2:00.970 aboard the Team Pramac Ducati. The peak is still far away (+2.103) but the feeling with the GP14 and with the team is increasing day after day.

The Ducati tester Michele Pirro is sixteenth, while the San Marino Alex de Angelis (riding the Iodaracing ART) and the Ravenna Marco Melandri (riding the Aprilia RS-GP) close the time list very far behind, over four seconds.

The best Aprilia is therefore that of the Spaniard Alvaro Bautista, twenty-first and trailing Marquez by 3.087. Heavy gaps, especially when compared to those of Suzuki.