By David Emmett |
Mon, 18/08/2014 - 16:09
Marc Marquez put in a late push in the afternoon to top the post-race test on Monday, the Repsol Honda rider dipping under Cal Crutchlow's pole record from 2013. Marquez deposed Jorge Lorenzo at the top of the timesheets, though Lorenzo closed down the Repsol Honda man's advantage.
Rain fell late in the session, stopping activity for a while, and looked like preventing Valentino Rossi from going out on the 2015 version of the YZR-M1, but the sun burned off the rain and dried the track enough for testing to resume for the final hour.
Final times at the end of testing:
| Pos | No | Rider | Bike | Time | Diff | Prev |
| 1 | 93 | Marc Marquez | Honda | 1:55.411 | ||
| 2 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha | 1:55.566 | 0.155 | 0.155 |
| 3 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 1:56.014 | 0.603 | 0.448 |
| 4 | 41 | Aleix Espargaro | Forward Yamaha | 1:56.173 | 0.762 | 0.159 |
| 5 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | 1:56.446 | 1.035 | 0.273 |
| 6 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Yamaha | 1:56.451 | 1.040 | 0.005 |
| 7 | 44 | Pol Espargaro | Yamaha | 1:56.502 | 1.091 | 0.051 |
| 8 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | Honda | 1:56.519 | 1.108 | 0.017 |
| 9 | 19 | Alvaro Bautista | Honda | 1:56.806 | 1.395 | 0.287 |
| 10 | 68 | Yonny Hernandez | Ducati | 1:56.988 | 1.577 | 0.182 |
| 11 | 51 | Michele Pirro | Ducati | 1:57.375 | 1.964 | 0.387 |
| 12 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Honda | 1:57.659 | 2.248 | 0.284 |
| 13 | 45 | Scott Redding | Honda | 1:57.772 | 2.361 | 0.113 |
| 14 | 2 | Leon Camier | Honda | 1:58.179 | 2.768 | 0.407 |
| 15 | 7 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 1:58.327 | 2.916 | 0.148 |
| 16 | 15 | Alex De Angelis | Forward Yamaha | 1:58.759 | 3.348 | 0.432 |
| 17 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Avintia | 1:59.662 | 4.251 | 0.903 |
| 18 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | 2:00.649 | 5.238 | 0.987 | |
| 19 | 19 | Kenny Noyes | Avintia | 2:03.442 | 8.031 | 2.793 |
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