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MotoGP Catalan GP
Espargaro puts Suzuki on top in FP2
Aleix Espargaro put Suzuki on top of the times in the second MotoGP practice session for the Catalan Grand Prix.
Pablo Elizalde
Edited: Jun 12, 2015, 1:10 PM
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World champion Marc Marquez looked set to finish first, but Espargaro put a very late flyer - including an impressive Sector 4 time - to outpace the Honda rider by nearly three tenths of a second.
Marquez, quickest in the morning, had to settle for second place ahead of teammate Dani Pedrosa, who was over six tenths of a second off Espargaro's pace.
Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso finished in fourth, with Espargaro's teammate Maverick Vinales completing the top five.
Championship leader Valentino Rossi continued to struggle for pace at the Barcelona circuit and finished outside of the top 10 in 11th position. Teammate Jorge Lorenzo was seventh fastest.
Espargaro was once again the early pace-setter on the Suzuki, initially lapping in the 1:42 before becoming the first rider to lap in the 1m:41s seven minutes into the session, with Lorenzo following closely.
Like in opening practice, Marquez waited until the final minutes to show his real pace, going quickest with slightly over two minutes to go despite finding traffic on his flying lap.
The world champion went even quicker on his following lap to increase his gap to Pedrosa, who moved up to second in the dying seconds.
However, Espargaro flew to P1 after the chequered flag had fallen with a sensational Sector 4, where he outpaced his rivals by over three tenths.
The session was incident-free for the most part except for off-track excursion for Cal Crutchlow and later a fall for Scott Redding, who crashed out at Turn 10 and was forced to abandon his bike and use the spare one for the remainder of the session.
Pos Rider Bike Time Gap Laps 1 Aleix Espargaro Suzuki 1'41.158 17 2 Marc Marquez Honda 1'41.443 0.285 18 3 Daniel Pedrosa Honda 1'41.789 0.631 19 4 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati 1'41.823 0.665 16 5 Maverick Vinales Suzuki 1'41.922 0.764 18 6 Andrea Iannone Ducati 1'41.938 0.780 19 7 Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha 1'42.034 0.876 17 8 Cal Crutchlow Honda 1'42.044 0.886 17 9 Pol Espargaro Yamaha 1'42.313 1.155 20 10 Scott Redding Honda 1'42.354 1.196 16 11 Valentino Rossi Yamaha 1'42.367 1.209 20 12 Yonny Hernandez Ducati 1'42.417 1.259 19 13 Bradley Smith Yamaha 1'42.645 1.487 21 14 Héctor Barbera Ducati 1'42.697 1.539 13 15 Loris Baz Yamaha Forward 1'42.968 1.810 15 16 Danilo Petrucci Ducati 1'42.995 1.837 19 17 Nicky Hayden Honda 1'43.110 1.952 19 18 Eugene Laverty Honda 1'43.351 2.193 19 19 Jack Miller Honda 1'43.369 2.211 16 20 Álvaro Bautista Aprilia 1'43.463 2.305 19 21 Karel Abraham Honda 1'43.562 2.404 16 22 Mike Di Meglio Ducati 1'43.760 2.602 15 23 Stefan Bradl Yamaha Forward 1'43.851 2.693 17 24 Alex de Angelis ART/Aprilia 1'44.614 3.456 18 25 Marco Melandri Aprilia 1'45.323 4.165 16
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