Dani Pedrosa has topped MotoGP FP3 at Phillip Island and shown fantastic pace while running on both the soft and hard option Bridgestone tyres. He finished ahead of his team mate Marc Marquez by four hundredths of a second, the championship leader suffered his second crash of the weekend early in the session, losing the front under hard braking at the MG hairpin, he was unhurt and typically unfazed. Valentino Rossi also looked very quick on the hard option tyre that is likely to be used during the race on Sunday, he finished in third place a tenth behind Pedrosa.
Alvaro Bautista showed continued strong form to set an almost identical lap time to Rossi and finish in fourth ahead of his countryman Jorge Lorenzo. After setting the pace comfortably on Friday, Lorenzo looked to be focusing on consistency rather than outright pace and had to settle for the fifth fastest time. Bradley Smith did excellently to finish sixth ahead of Nicky Hayden and his Tech 3 team mate Cal Crutchlow. Colin Edwards and Randy DePuniet did the CRT class proud and achieved superb results of ninth and tenth respectively, both riders earning an automatic starting spot in Q2 later this afternoon.
Race Details
Round Number:
16
2013
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