A damp track in the morning had the riders waiting to make first contact with the track, until late morning when all but Casey Stoner made their first laps aboard their 2012 machines.
Leading the early pace at the top of the timesheet after the opening half of day one was Factory Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo with a fastest lap of 2’02.406 aboard his new YZR-M1, with Valentino Rossi making the long awaited debut of the new Ducati Desmosedici GP12 and lapping four tenths of a second behind Lorenzo, with Ben Spies following with a best lap of 2’02.930.
Alvaro Bautista made his first laps aboard the Honda of the Gresini Team in a strong debut to rank fourth for the morning, with Yamaha Tech 3’s Cal Crutchlow the second highest satellite team rider in fifth position.
American Nicky Hayden gathered his first impressions of the GP12, making 10 laps with a best time of 2’04.665, followed by Moto2 World Champion Stefan Bradl aboard the LCR Honda. Next in the rankings was a still recovering Andrea Dovizioso on the Yamaha Tech 3 machine, the Italian is recovering from surgery to plate his collarbone after an off season motocross incident and will use this test to familiarize himself with his new bike.
Hector Barbara set a fastest lap of 2’05.112 aboard the Pramac Racing Ducati, eight tenths ahead of Czech rider Karel Abraham, who will focus on setting up rider position and testing the electronics and tires on his new GP12 Ducati.
The new Avintia Racing team saw team rider Ivan Silva and replacement rider Jordi Torres lap in the 2’11 and 2’12s, respectively, ahead of Forward Racing’s Colin Edwards, who is hard at work developing the electronics of his Suter-BMW.source:motogp.com
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