Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa continued Sepang domination in this afternoon’s second free practice with a bevy of Honda RC212V’s in the top five spots.
Pedrosa set a sensational 2’01″250 lap in the final minutes, shaving off almost seven tenths from his morning lap time and while he was at it broke the 2010 pole position record.
World Champion Casey Stoner had no response for his ultra fast team mate has he finished second, 0.
820s off pace and losing a big amount of time in the last sector of the Malaysian track.
Andrea Dovizioso was third and 1.
4s adrift from his Repsol Honda team mate, while Gresini duo Marco Simoncelli and Hiroshi Aoyama completed the top five.
Colin Edwards brought his satellite Yamaha Tech3 into sixth ahead of Alvaro Bautista, Randy De Puniet who was still the best Ducati rider of the day, while aching Ben Spies was ninth.
Karel Abraham rounded out the top ten ahead of factory riders Nicky Hayden (11th) and a very lowly Valentino Rossi in 13th with Loris Capirossi on the Pramac Ducati GP11 separating the two.
John Hopkins was 14th, while substitute rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga was last and he suffered another crash, but this time at turn 13.
MotoGP Sepang FP2 results:01- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 2’01.
25002- Casey Stoner – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.
82003- Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 1.
41404- Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – + 1.
57305- Hiroshi Aoyama – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – + 1.
70106- Colin Edwards – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
74107- Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki MotoGP – Suzuki GSV-R – + 1.
87308- Randy De Puniet – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 1.
90909- Ben Spies – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 2.
06210- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 2.
06811- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11.
1 – + 2.
19512- Loris Capirossi – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 2.
34513- Valentino Rossi – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11.
1 – + 2.
42714- John Hopkins – Rizla Suzuki MotoGP – Suzuki GSV-R – + 2.
63515- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 2.
65116- Toni Elias – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC212V – + 2.
82117- Hector Barbera – Mapfre Aspar Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 3.
35318- Katsuyuki Nakasuga – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 4.
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