2012 Le Mans MotoGP FP2 Result: Stoner's Reign Continues

Submitted by David Emmett on Fri, 2012-05-18 13:23

Casey Stoner's domination at Le Mans continues. After taking top spot in the morning, the Australian spent the first part of practice further down the standings before finding his feet towards the end, and punching in three laps in the 1'33s. He ended the session on top of the timesheets, a quarter of a second ahead of his Repsol Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa. Factory Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo finished in 3rd, within four tenths of Stoner, and three tenths ahead of San Carlo Gresini's Alvaro Bautista, who was impressively quick throughout. Bautista got in front of the second Factory Yamaha of Ben Spies, while Andrea Dovizioso won the battle of the Monster Tech 3 Yamahas, but only by twenty-five thousandths, Cal Crutchlow ending behind Dovizioso in 7th. Hector Barbera led the Ducatis, the Pramac man finishing in 8th, ahead of Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden.

Results:

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Time	Diff	Diff Previous
1	1	Casey STONER	HONDA	1'33.740
2	26	Dani PEDROSA	HONDA	1'34.005	0.265	0.265
3	99	Jorge LORENZO	YAMAHA	1'34.136	0.396	0.131
4	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	HONDA	1'34.437	0.697	0.301
5	11	Ben SPIES	YAMAHA	1'34.467	0.727	0.030
6	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	YAMAHA	1'34.585	0.845	0.118
7	35	Cal CRUTCHLOW	YAMAHA	1'34.610	0.870	0.025
8	8	Hector BARBERA	DUCATI	1'35.079	1.339	0.469
9	46	Valentino ROSSI	DUCATI	1'35.112	1.372	0.033
10	69	Nicky HAYDEN	DUCATI	1'35.132	1.392	0.020
11	6	Stefan BRADL	HONDA	1'35.201	1.461	0.069
12	17	Karel ABRAHAM	DUCATI	1'35.787	2.047	0.586
13	14	Randy DE PUNIET	ART	1'36.438	2.698	0.651
14	68	Yonny HERNANDEZ	BQR	1'36.928	3.188	0.490
15	54	Mattia PASINI	ART	1'37.093	3.353	0.165
16	51	Michele PIRRO	FTR	1'37.310	3.570	0.217
17	41	Aleix ESPARGARO	ART	1'37.585	3.845	0.275
18	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	IODA	1'38.255	4.515	0.670
19	22	Ivan SILVA	BQR	1'38.260	4.520	0.005
20	77	James ELLISON	ART	1'38.395	4.655	0.135
21	7	Chris VERMEULEN	SUTER	1'39.383	5.643	0.988