Rider Media Training Wins The Day
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Junya Arai Toshiyuki Arakaki Fernando Aranda Takeishi Araoka Adrian Araujo Gilbert Argo
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Junya Arai Toshiyuki Arakaki Fernando Aranda Takeishi Araoka Adrian Araujo Gilbert Argo
We'd been waiting for it for a long time - longer than we had initially hoped for, after the planned 1000cc test at Mugello morphed into an 800cc test, the Brno test taking its place - but finally, we got to see the 2012 MotoGP bikes out on track, in public and undisguised. Honda and Yamaha pitted their latest creations against one another in full view of the public, and the results were not quite as expected beforehand.
That a Honda RC213V - that's twenty-one three, not two thirteen, for the superstitious among you - should be fastest at the test was expected, Casey Stoner posting a time of 1'56.168 in the final hour before the test finished. Stoner had already had two days of testing on the 2012 bike, and the times being bandied about the paddock - about as reliable as any gossip from inside a small and deeply political community, i.e. not at all - was that Stoner had been two seconds faster than the 800s at the track earlier in the year, though the conditions for the 1000cc test were much more favorable.
Stuart Aspin Len Atlee Pierre Audry Karl Auer August Auinger Jean Aureal
Brian Adams Duilio Agostini Felice Agostini Giacomo Agostini Jack Ahearn Mitsuo Akamatsu
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Kork Ballington Hans Baltisberger Carlo Bandirola Alain Barbaroux Hector Barberá Fabio Barchitta
The timesheet at the MotoGP test at Brno has seen few changes since this morning, with most teams now working on a general development direction rather than trying to post a fast lap. Ben Spies was immediately faster on the 1000 than he was on the 800, can came off the bike seriously impressed at the work that Yamaha had already done. Nicky Hayden is very pleased with the GP11.1, finding it a great improvement over the GP11, and was nearly two-thirds of a second faster on the new bike than on his old bike. The biggest improvement of the test so far has come from Toni Elias, the LCR Honda rider posting much more respectable times and improving on his race lap by over a second.
The test is due to end at 6pm local time
Test times from 4pm at Brno:
Race DetailsAugust Auinger Jean Aureal Josef Autengruber Stu Avant Rex Avery Masao Azuma
Willi Bertsch Paul Berwick Kees Besseling Max Biaggi Pier Paolo Bianchi Stefano Bianco