Fagerhaug Fastest At Red Bull Rookies Test In Jerez

Submitted by Kropotkin on Tue, 2009-03-31 18:47

After testing previously at Estoril, the Red Bull Rookies took over the track from the MotoGP riders at Jerez on Monday and Tuesday. The tiny Japanese rider Daijiro Hiura had dominated in Portugal, but at Jerez, it was the turn of the - in Red Bull Rookie terms - veteran rider Sturla Fagerhaug to take the top spot, two tenths of a second ahead of Spaniard Daniel Ruiz, with Hiura half a second off Fagerhaug's time of 1'52.223. With the times they set today, Fagerhaug and Ruiz would have been ahead of the last two official 125 World Championship riders, and 5 seconds behind Julian Simon's best time of 1'47.318.

The original 24 riders have had their numbers swelled by a few riders jumping over from the canceled US series, including American's Benny Solis, Jake Gagne and Australian dirt track ace Josh Hook. All 27 entries will race 8 races this year, at 6 MotoGP rounds, making their debut at the first European round of MotoGP back at Jerez on the first weekend of May.

Red Bull Rookie Times:

Pos	Rider	Country	Time
1	Sturla Fagerhaug	NOR	1'52.223
2	Daniel Ruiz	ESP	1'52.420
3	Daijiro Hiura	JPN	1'52.780
4	Mathew Scholtz	RSA	1'52.980
5	Florian Marino	FRA	1'53.132
6	Nelson Major	FRA	1'53.238
7	Alessio Cappella	ITA	1'53.364
8	Danny Kent	GBR	1'53.491
9	Alejandro Pardo	ITA	1'53.764
10	Harry Stafford	GBR	1'53.796
11	Deane Brown	GBR	1'53.811
12	Jakub Kornfeil	CZE	1'53.945
13	Jacob Gagne	USA	1'54.047
14	Joshua Hook	AUS	1'54.334
15	Juan Perello	ESP	1'54.349
16	Robin Barbosa	FRA	1'54.496
17	Alexander Kristiansson	SWE	1'54.637
18	Brad Binder	RSA	1'54.638
19	Benny Solis	USA	1'54.640
20	Dylan Mavin	AUS	1'54.780
21	Nico Thöni	AUT	1'54.981
22	Arthur Sissis	AUS	1'55.226
23	Hayden Gillim	USA	1'55.417
24	Xavier Figueras	ESP	1'55.955
25	Taylor Mackenzie	GBR	1'57.019
26	Fraser Rogers	GBR	1'58.241


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