MotoGP Valencia, Free Practice 3: Iannone at the top, Rossi is second
Third and fourth times for Marquez and Lorenzo, Petrucci enters Q2
MotoGP 2015 GP Valencia Free Practice 3 – Andrea Iannone achieved the best time in the third free practice session of the Valencian Community Grand Prix, the last event of the 2015 season.
The Ducati rider set the best time with a time of 1:30.925, a time of just 63 thousandths better than that set by Valentino Rossi, who has been at ease with the M1 on the Ricardo Tormo circuit since yesterday.
The Pesaro native will start from the last row after the well-known events in Sepang, but this does not mean he has given up and is actually trying in every way to be faster to attempt the "impossible" comeback. Starting from the last place on the grid will be very tough and a lot will depend on Jorge Lorenzo's race, who in the championship has to make up 7 points from Rossi and who finished fourth in these FP3, immediately behind the Honda of his compatriot Marc Marquez.
The Majorcan preceded his brand mate Bradley Smith, Dani Pedrosa's Honda, Pol Espargarò (riding the second Yamaha of Team Tech 3), Andrea Dovizioso's Ducati and Cal Crutchlow's Honda.
Danilo Petrucci managed to achieve the Top Ten objective and therefore enters directly into Q2, something he hoped for yesterday in our interview which you can read here.
Photos: Alex Farinelli
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Poor Jorge, for him it's a race like any other, he's not under pressure, he doesn't feel the pressure, whether Rossi starts first or last doesn't change anything for him.
However, after finding Smith in slow motion but on the side of the track and Pirro on his trajectory who didn't know what to do in the middle of the track, while Jorge was setting his best time and slowed him down, Jorge lost his patience and was no longer improved a lot.
At that moment he had enough time to set the fastest lap which Iannone and perhaps Rossi would then have beaten, but with Pirro in the line he couldn't do it and lost everything.
The fact is that Rossi did his best lap after 3, 4 or maybe 5 laps, so not with the tires at their best, so we could have improved even after that.
Jorge, however, became impatient and no longer had a good lap. Luckily it's calm, at the end of the session he hit himself on the helmet, shook his head and was angry, poor guy...
As soon as he arrived at the pits he wanted to go behind the pits to punch some posters haha, and immediately run towards the race direction to whine to inflict a few penalty points on Pirro...
Poor Jorge who is so calm, I wonder if Marquez were to do the dirty things he did in Sepang with Rossi how he would end the race hahaha.
These are the ideal laps of each driver, the best sectors lined up to create the ideal lap for each driver.
1. J.LORENZO 1'30.806
2. V.ROSSI 1'30.871
3. M.MARQUEZ 1'30.882
4. A.IANNONE 1'30.906
5. P.ESPARGAR 1'31.064
6. D.PEDROSA 1'31.088
7. B.SMITH 1'31.093
It should be a pretty fun qualification…
The best on the pace based on what they showed this morning are Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo and the victory seems to be between the two of them.
Which could prove interesting in the race, I doubt that Marquez will do the Str0nz0 like with Rossi in Sepang but if Valentino were to accidentally arrive at the foot of the podium then Lorenzo would have to fight for the victory with no holds barred with Marc which would make it very interesting :)
I believe that Rossi's competitiveness here in Valencia shows once again how much Rossi deserves the title this year. Without Marquez and without penalties, Lorenzo would have had no chance against Rossi.
Let's hope for a competitive Iannone and Pedrosa..
Still mystifying reality, you are ridiculous.
Lorenzo is faster than Rossi, go and look at all the 2015 qualifying sessions, who is most often in front? 90% of the time Lorenzo. Who has won the most races? Lorenzo.
If Marquez didn't crash in Sepang because of Rossi, Rossi would have finished fourth (if it's true, as you continually claim, that Marquez was much faster than Rossi, but he slowed down to slow him down) now Lorenzo was at -3, not -7, so if Lorenzo wins it is well deserved. If they reached the same number of points, who would win? Lorenzo, because he has won more races, so stop talking rubbish based on nothing.
sure..or if marc did his race in ap island and in sepang perhaps Rossi would have finished ahead of Lorenzo on both occasions and would have arrived here without penalties and with a 20 point advantage.
You are free to think however you want...your thoughts are shared by few, however, by you and 3-4 other idiots on this blog. The world is with Vale.
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good qualifications and good pace….
unfortunately apart from Iannone's outburst, Pedrosa doesn't seem to be able to fight for first or second position either...
well, the race is long, let's see what comes out tomorrow,...
Looking back at the times, however, Pedrosa seems to me to be just as consistent as Lorenzo, I wouldn't rule him out completely. It depends on how you qualify and how you start. Pedrosa usually either doesn't qualify at the top, or doesn't start well or is held back in his comeback by other riders because he starts slowly.
Pedrosa has the pace to stay with the best, the problem is that he needs a perfect qualification, a perfect start. Or a less than perfect qualification, a perfect start from first or second place at the first corner.
Or not perfect qualifying, not perfect start and stuck in traffic he throws himself in without thinking and recovers immediately.
The problem is that the probability for now, is not a perfect qualification if he doesn't get behind Marquez, Rossi or Lorenzo, and he's not even the type to risk everything at the first corner and in the first 3 laps, so I see him in difficulty , which could play in Rossi's favor for recovery.
Rossi has a big problem to solve, it's certainly better for him to help and pull the Ducatis of Iannone and Dovizioso, to bring them as far ahead as possible in qualifying and the race, to perhaps slow down the leaders.
I don't know if it's worth it for Rossi to pull Pedrosa, because that's what he has to recover to finish third, but if it gave him enough of an advantage, Pedrosa could win or finish second so you never know.
Unfortunately Marquez cannot be relied on, and he could even let Lorenzo win in my opinion, there will never be an end to the worst.