Cota Motogp *spoiler*

RED BULL GRAND PRIX OF THE AMERICAS
MotoGP Free Practice 2 Classification 2018


Austin, Friday, April 20, 2018

Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev.
1 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 337.9 2'04.599
2 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 341.6 2'04.655 0.056 / 0.056
3 25 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 341.3 2'04.863 0.264 / 0.208
4 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 341.6 2'04.958 0.359 / 0.095
5 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda CASTROL Honda 347.9 2'05.088 0.489 / 0.130
6 42 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 339.5 2'05.452 0.853 / 0.364
7 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Ducati Team Ducati 340.4 2'05.487 0.888 / 0.035
8 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 344.4 2'05.647 1.048 / 0.160
9 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 339.8 2'05.739 1.140 / 0.092
10 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 342.8 2'05.761 1.162 / 0.022
11 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 347.9 2'05.889 1.290 / 0.128
12 53 Tito RABAT SPA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 339.4 2'05.910 1.311 / 0.021
13 5 Johann ZARCO FRA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 339.3 2'05.933 1.334 / 0.023
14 43 Jack MILLER AUS Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 337.9 2'06.016 1.417 / 0.083
15 45 Scott REDDING GBR Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 332.7 2'06.078 1.479 / 0.062
16 55 Hafizh SYAHRIN MAL Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 340.1 2'06.219 1.620 / 0.141
17 30 Takaaki NAKAGAMI JPN LCR Honda IDEMITSU Honda 336.0 2'06.397 1.798 / 0.178
18 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Angel Nieto Team Ducati 341.2 2'06.555 1.956 / 0.158
19 12 Thomas LUTHI SWI EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 335.9 2'06.625 2.026 / 0.070
20 21 Franco MORBIDELLI ITA EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 335.5 2'06.640 2.041 / 0.015
21 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Angel Nieto Team Ducati 340.0 2'06.683 2.084 / 0.043
22 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 337.0 2'07.033 2.434 / 0.350
23 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 341.0 2'07.136 2.537 / 0.103
24 10 Xavier SIMEON BEL Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 335.9 2'08.021 3.422 / 0.885

 

It’s a bit bumpy!

 

Dani Pedrosa is a bit of a legend, top ten on that track with a broken wrist!

 

Any idea what happened? I missed qually, they had before M2 this time where last time it was after, so I tuned in too late.

 

Marquez on an out lap took the racing line in front of Vinales on a hot lap. Said in interview “I was worried about Ianone in front of me as you would and didn’t see Vinales”. Seemed to think apologising to Vinales in Parc Ferme made it all right. Andy

 

Vinales was on a seriously hot lap when he found MM going slowly on the racing line.

 

i missed it all but will watch the main race only with keen interest

 

I suspect that he would think apologising to the widow of the rider he put thru a wall at 150MPH in parc freeze would make it right too.

 

Didn't even realise this was on. Downloading qualifying now.

 

3 place penalty for riding slowly on the racing line so MM starts from 4th. He’s still the quickest rider by a margin so the penalty will have no effect. As Colin Edwards said in the commentary, it’s MM’s to lose not for someone else to win. Moto3 is likely to be a bang fest and with SL on the front row in Moto2, hopefully should still be worth watching. Andy

 

Might have an effect on the three in front of him now if Argentina was anything to by, bumper cars are go...

 

I just saw a new item saying that Race Direction have formally notified all teams and riders that the race Stewards have been told to be more strict and severe when looking at race incidents. Lets hope we have an intertesting race becase of the racing and not have lots of flag waving going on. I've got to say seeing the MV and MM incident it didn't really look like much, just the same as happens every race. A bugger for MV on a hot lap but happens every round to someone. ... deffinitly setting up to be a good race!

 

At the slow pace that mm is doing you can hear people coming..mm he had a slow contented look to the right on corner exit,he ain't stupid.

 

yeh, and there's no way he wasn't aware he was cruising on the racing line. It's going to be a very "interesting" first corner!

 

No, not very interesting, the whole race was relatively uninteresting.

 

Yep , COTA box ticked and move onto the more interesting tracks. It just doesn’t produce interesting racing. I nodded off 2 laps from finish

 

Let me see ... could somebody remind me who is leading the MotoGP world championship at the moment? I don't think anybody has mentioned it ...