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    vendredi 9 octobre 2015

    Lorenzo double la mise au Motegi / Lorenzo overcomes injury to dominate Friday’s practice


    Nettement au-dessus de ses adversaires le matin, le Majorquin a de nouveau dominé les essais libres vendredi après-midi au Japon.
                 Lorenzo overcomes injury to dominate Friday’s practice
    Avec quatorze points de retard sur son coéquipier Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) dans leur duel pour le titre mondial, Jorge Lorenzo (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) se doit de prendre l’initiative et l’a fait sans hésitation vendredi au Twin Ring Motegi, où commençait le Grand Prix Motul du Japon, première des quatre dernières manches de la saison 2015.
    Le Majorquin, vainqueur de l’épreuve japonaise ces deux dernières années, a attaqué dès le matin pour boucler la première séance d’essais du week-end avec près de quatre dixièmes de seconde d’avance sur Andrea Iannone (Ducati) et a poursuivi ses efforts l’après-midi, lors d’une seconde séance marquée par une nette progression de l’ensemble des pilotes. 
                     Pedrosa: “We encountered more problems than we had expected”
    Bien que ses adversaires se soient rapprochés de lui, Lorenzo conservait en fin de journée la première position sur le classement combiné, avec 0.128s d’avance sur Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda), en pleine forme après s’être brillamment battu pour prendre la seconde place lors de la course précédente, en Aragón.
    Toujours affaibli par son épaule gauche, dont il ne se fera pas opérer avant la fin de la saison, Iannone avait annoncé que le Motegi était une piste faite pour lui et a confirmé sa performance matinale en se maintenant dans le Top 3 au terme de la seconde séance d’essais, en étant 0.312s de Lorenzo.
                       Iannone: “We were competitive right out of the box”
    Son coéquipier Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) a trouvé un rythme similaire (+0.016s sur Iannone) pour se hisser à la quatrième position, devant Bradley Smith (Monster Yamaha Tech3) et Aleix Espargaró (Team Suzuki Ecstar), qui, comme les pilotes Ducati, bénéficie d’un pneu arrière plus tendre.
    Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda), récemment opéré de la main gauche, et Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) se sont respectivement classés septième et huitième, en étant respectivement à plus de sept et huit dixièmes de seconde de Lorenzo.
                       Marquez: “I was able to ride correctly and brake late”
    Pol Espargaró (Monster Yamaha Tech3) a fini neuvième, devant Héctor Barberá (Avintia Racing), dixième et premier pilote Open.
    Mike Di Meglio (Avintia Racing) s’est quant à lui classé 21e, trois places devant Loris Baz (Forward Racing), qui a chuté. 
    Les pilotes MotoGP™ seront de retour en piste samedi matin à 9h55 au Japon, soit 2h55 en France métropolitaine.
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                      Rossi & Lorenzo will joust for glory again in Motegi
    Jorge Lorenzo dominated Friday’s practice to top the combined timesheets ahead of Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Iannone with Rossi in eighth.
    Movistar Yamaha’s Lorenzo took advantage of ideal conditions (Track temp. 40˚C) at the Twin Ring Motegi to set a 1’44.731 in FP2 to top Friday’s practice. Lorenzo showed no ill effects from the shoulder injury he picked up earlier in the week as he completely dominated proceedings on Friday at the Motul Grand Prix of Japan.
    Lorenzo’s time was less than three-tenths off Andrea Dovizioso’s Pole Record from last year (1’44.502) as the Spaniard looks to close the 14-point gap to his teammate Valentino Rossi in the standings.
    Repsol Honda’s Pedrosa (+0.128s) seemed buoyed by his podium finish at Aragon and ended the day in second overall after improving by over a second from FP1 to FP2. Ducati Team’s Andrea Iannone was third fastest on a day that saw 0.312s separate the provisional front row. The Italian finished ahead of his teammate Andrea Dovizioso in fourth as just 0.016s separated the two, despite Iannone also carrying a shoulder injury. The Ducati Team GP15’s made use of special cooling ducts to keep the front brakes cool, as did both the Movistar Yamaha team and Team Suzuki Ecstar.
                    Smith: “Things were very positive for us on track”
    Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Bradley Smith (+0.519s) impressed as the leading Satellite rider in fifth overall, after he had finished fourth fastest in FP1. Team Suzuki Ecstar’s Aleix Espargaro (+0.617s) was sixth fastest with Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez in seventh. The reigning MotoGP™ champion was using a modified handlebar to accommodate the broken fifth metacarpal on his left hand and at one point pulled off a remarkable save at turn 8 to stop him from doing any further damage.
                     Rossi: “We‘re not good with the setting yet”
    Championship leader Rossi found himself down in 8th overall at the end of the day, after ending FP1 in third. Rossi was 0.823s off the pace of Lorenzo and will have work to do on Saturday to try and maintain his 14-point lead.
    Pol Espargaro (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) was ninth ahead of the leading Open Class rider, Hector Barbera on the Avintia Racing Ducati, who completed the top ten.
                 Crutchlow: “I’m not too pleased”
    British riders Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) and Scott Redding (EG 0,0 Marc VDS) were in 11th and 12th respectively. Australian Jack Miller (LCR Honda) was 15th fastest overall while Irishman Eugene Laverty (Aspar MotoGP Team) was in 19th, ahead of his teammate Nicky Hayden (20th). The 2006 MotoGP™ World Champion Hayden announced on Friday he will be leaving MotoGP™for WorldSBK in 2016.
    Wildcards Takumi Takahashi (Team HRC With Nissin) and Katsuyuki Nagasuka (Yamaha Factor Racing Team) ended the day in 18th and 23rd respectively despite the latter crashing late on in FP2, while Kousuke Akiyoshi, the replacement for the injured Karel Abraham in the AB Motoracing Team, was in 27th.
    Check out the combined MotoGP™ FP1 and FP2 results; FP3 kicks off at 9:55am local time in Motegi on Sunday.
                   Crutchlow: “It’s a special place for Honda”

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