MotoGP: Lorenzo on pole in Valencia, then Marquez. Rossi crashes – The Republic

VALENCIA – Tour record and pole position for Lorenzo followed by a fast Marquez. And Rossi – who will start from the last position – slips without consequences: that was the outcome of the session of the Grand Prix of Valencia, the last of the season and decided to award the world. Worse than that to Valentino really could not go: his closest rival for the title is a phenomenon, author of a crazy time, and him down to the ground, in the sand.
The Spaniard shot it with a record time of 1.30.011 (“If I do it again a thousand times I can no longer do so once” joked Jorge) almost half a second ahead of Marc Marquez (Honda) 1.30.499 and Dani Pedrosa (Honda) 1.30.516. In the second row start another Spaniard Aleix Espargaro of Suzuki in 0906 before British Cal Crutchlow on a Honda in 0937 and Bradley Smith on his Yamaha at 1.001. Only seventh Andrea Iannone on the Ducati in 1045 by Lorenzo, the Spaniard Pol Espargaro eighth Yamaha in 1069. Rounding out the top ten Andrea Dovizioso, eighth on the Ducati in 1234 and Danilo Petrucci on the Ducati Pramac in 1281.

After the great performance in the last session of free practice today then Valentino is now in huge trouble. The race becomes complicated. And not only because he already has slipped – and this is always bad for morale – and not just Jorge flies: It is found between him and Lorenzo the two Honda going strong.
“We made another small step forward “thus explained Pedrosa. And this is another blow for Rossi because the Hondas here before were the big favorites … I mean worse than that just could not go for the leader at this point – to be realistic – hopes to catch the title really boil down to a flicker. True, it is still early to make an assessment: the races end with checkered flags and everything can happen tomorrow. But …

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But as we said you put evil is also blurred the chance to see the fight with the Honda and Ducati with Lorenzo: from what we saw today the three Spaniards are really on another planet, unreachable for everyone. And then we do not know what the race pace of Rossi Valentino according to the stopwatch has not done better than the 12th time, at 1 “460 by Lorenzo (then a tragedy on paper) but actually the crash has deprived us of the opportunity to understand what would staro his real trial. The hopes of Rossi fans are hanging on its alleged fast race pace, partly shown in the last practice session. Let’s see: Valentino is certainly one that never gives up. How it will end?

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1 Jorge LORENZO SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 1’30.011
2 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 1’30.499 1
3 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 1’30.516
4 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 1’30.917
5 Cal Crutchlow GBR Honda LCR Honda 1’30.948
6 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 1’31.012
7 Andrea Iannone ITA Ducati Team Ducati 1’31.056
8 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 1’31.080
9 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 1 ’31 .245
10 Danilo PETRUCCI Octo ITA Pramac Racing Ducati 1’31.292
11 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 1’31.340
12 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 1’31.47

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