Lorenzo fastest in Brno test

Added on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 by Carole Nash Editor

Jorge Lorenzo posted the fastest time of the day in the post-race test before weather brought an abrupt end to proceedings in Brno.

Lorenzo posted a time of 1:56.269 early in the day on his current Yamaha M1, easily undercutting Dani Pedrosa’s pole-qualifying time of 1:56.508, before the heavens opened over the Czech circuit.

The rain meant that Lorenzo had limited opportunity to test Yamaha’s 2011 upgrades, posting just seven laps on the new machine before the rain forced riders off the circuit at around 3pm local time.

Dani Pedrosa had six laps on the updated Honda RC212V whilst Ben Spies also sampled some of Yamaha’s 2011 upgrades, ahead of an expected switch to the factory team next season. Rossi, who is leaving Yamaha for Ducati next season, and Colin Edwards, who is expected to leave Tech 3, only had access to their current 2010 machines.

Hiroshi Aoyama returned to action after missing the last six rounds with injury, with the only absentee being LCR Honda’s Randy de Puniet. Suzuki’s Álvaro Bautista made 24 laps on his GSV-R, the fewest of the day as he continued to recover from the practice crash he suffered on Saturday.

Pos	Rider	Team	Best Time	Laps
1	Jorge Lorenzo	Fiat Yamaha	1:56.269	44
2	Casey Stoner	Ducati Marlboro	1:56.844	37
3	Dani Pedrosa (Test)	Repsol Honda	1:56.944	6
4	Valentino Rossi	Fiat Yamaha	1:57.129	50
5	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda	1:57.424	28
6	Colin Edwards	Monster Tech 3 Yamaha	1:57.512	41
7	Ben Spies	Monster Tech 3 Yamaha	1:57.575	42
8	Andrea Dovizioso	Repsol Honda	1:57.691	48
9	Loris Capirossi	Rizla Suzuki	1:57.700	51
10	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Marlboro	1:57.991	38
11	Hector Barbera	Páginas Amarillas Ducati	1:58.017	47
12	Marco Melandri	San Carlo Gresini Honda	1:58.070	42
13	Marco Simoncelli	San Carlo Gresini Honda	1:58.091	35
14	Aleix Espargaro	Pramac Ducati	1:58.612	53
15	Hiroshi Aoyama	Interwetten Honda	1:58.830	46
16	Mika Kallio	Pramac Ducati	1:58.926	62
17	Alvaro Bautista	Rizla Suzuki	1:59.454	30