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MotoGP Valencia November testing

Marquez ends Valencia test on top as crashes continue

Marc Marquez completed the second and final day of the post-season MotoGP test at Valencia fastest, as more riders suffered crashes trying to accustom themselves to the 2016 Michelin tyres.

Jamie Klein

Edited: Nov 11, 2015, 4:30 PM

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Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team

Having ended Tuesday's session quickest, Marquez first hit the top of the timesheets early in the second hour with a 1m32.126s aboard next year's Honda RC213V, but was soon demoted down the order first by LCR rider Cal Crutchlow and then the sister Repsol machine of Dani Pedrosa.

Suzuki's Maverick Vinales and newly-crowned champion Jorge Lorenzo broke the Honda monopoly, the factory Yamaha man being the first rider to dip beneath Marquez's Tuesday benchmark with a 1m31.527s.

Pedrosa then returned to the fore as the seven-hour session hit the halfway mark, lowering the bar to a 1m31.180s, a time that was beaten by a slender 0.017s by Vinales at the tail end of the fifth hour.

Shortly after that however, Marquez seized back the top spot with the quickest time of the test, a 1m31.060s, which would remain unbeaten for the remainder, putting the two-time champion on top from Vinales and Pedrosa.

Aleix Espargaro made it two Suzukis in the top four ahead of Lorenzo, who finished just over two tenths shy of Marquez and two places ahead of Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi in seventh.

A last-minute effort from Crutchlow moved him ahead of the seven-time champion by just 0.004s into sixth, with Pol Espargaro (Tech 3 Yamaha) and Andrea Iannone (Ducati) setting identical times just behind Rossi.

The second satellite Yamaha of Bradley Smith grabbed the final top 10 spot in the dying stages, pushing out Pramac Ducati's Danilo Petrucci.

Having already crashed once during Tuesday's session, Marquez was once again the highest-profile casualty of the new Michelin tyres, suffering a low-side fall at Turn 8 shortly before setting his quickest time of the day.

Joining Marquez on a long list of fallers throughout the day included Vinales, Crutchlow, Pol Espargaro, Iannone, Loris Baz (Avintia Ducati), Jack Miller (Marc VDS Honda), Eugene Laverty (Aspar Ducati) and both Aprilia riders Alvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl.

Although teams are permitted to continue private testing until the end of this month, the next official test session will not take place until the start of February at Sepang.

Testing times:

Pos Rider Bike Time Gap Laps 1 Marc Marquez Honda 1'31.060 42 2 Maverick Vinales Suzuki 1'31.163 0.103 57 3 Dani Pedrosa Honda 1'31.180 0.120 60 4 Aleix Espargaro Suzuki 1'31.212 0.152 55 5 Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha 1'31.282 0.222 48 6 Cal Crutchlow Honda 1'31.494 0.434 58 7 Valentino Rossi Yamaha 1'31.498 0.438 65 8 Pol Espargaro Yamaha 1'31.619 0.559 51 9 Andrea Iannone Ducati 1'31.619 0.559 60 10 Bradley Smith Yamaha 1'31.694 0.634 71 11 Danilo Petrucci Ducati 1'31.717 0.657 62 12 Loris Baz Ducati 1'31.796 0.736 49 13 Scott Redding Ducati 1'31.901 0.841 54 14 Hector Barbera Ducati 1'31.937 0.877 62 15 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati 1'31.967 0.907 62 16 Jack Miller Honda 1'32.100 1.040 49 17 Eugene Laverty Ducati 1'32.377 1.317 51 18 Esteve Rabat Honda 1'32.402 1.342 56 19 Stefan Bradl Aprilia 1'32.492 1.432 59 20 Yonny Hernandez Ducati 1'32.510 1.450 48 21 Alvaro Bautista Aprilia 1'32.847 1.787 52 22 Michele Pirro Ducati 1'33.568 2.508 6 23 Takuya Tsuda Suzuki 1'33.797 2.737 32 24 Mike Di Meglio Aprilia 1'34.372 3.312 21 25 Nobuatsu Aoki Suzuki 1'37.031 5.971 13

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