All eyes were on Jorge Lorenzo during this morning’s warm-up session at Assen. The Yamaha rider was declared fit by the medical commission - he had to do push ups - in order to ride the 20-minute practice, but he will have to undergo a further medical check after the session to assess his ability to compete in this afternoon’s race.
Lorenzo had a litle trouble putting his helmet, and then waited a few minutes before climbing on his M1 and at first gingerly took the left handers, but he seemed to completely forget his collarbone that was operated on just 30 hours before and the fact that he missed sessions and qualifying.
He stunningly continued to improve even lighting up red lights and completed 11 laps, posting an an amazing time of 1′36.517, finishing 8th, just seven tenths (!) from his team mate Valentino Rossi who headed the timesheets.
Rossi took the top of the charts with his last flying lap in 1′35.803, while injured Marc Marquez was mere 0.001s from the Italian, while pole sitter Cal Crutchlow was third and adrift by just 0.033s.
Dani Pedrosa was fourth and further back, almost half a second and on the tail of the Repsol Honda rider were Stefan Bradl and a simply perfect Aleix Espargaro.
Nicky Hayden had a definite improvement taking the 7th spot and slashing his gap to 7 tenths of a second while Alvaro Bautista and Karel Abraham closed out the top ten. Andrea Dovizioso continued to struggle with his Ducati as he was just 12th and more than 1.1 seconds from Rossi.
2013 MotoGP Assen warm-up results:
01- Valentino Rossi – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1’35.803
02- Marc Marquez – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.001
03- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.033
04- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.491
05- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 0.547
06- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 0.576
07- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 0.668
08- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.714
09- Alvaro Bautista – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 0.753
10- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – ART GP13 – + 1.063
02- Marc Marquez – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.001
03- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.033
04- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.491
05- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 0.547
06- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 0.576
07- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 0.668
08- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.714
09- Alvaro Bautista – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 0.753
10- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – ART GP13 – + 1.063
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