It took Casey Stoner slightly longer to top the timesheets in this afternoon’s second free practice at Le Mans, but when he did, he stopped the clock in 1’33″740 with three laps under the 1.
34 barrier.
The session was much more tighter than this morning as both Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo were able to reduce the gap that they had this morning taking second and third and 0.
265s and 0.
396s respectively adrift from Stoner, with Lorenzo partially solving the problems that he had this morning.
Alvaro Bautista had a very good practice as he took fourth with his satellite Honda RC213V finishing ahead of Ben Spies on the factory Yamaha by just 0.
030s, but the American crashed out at the first chicane.
Andrea Dovizioso finished in sixth ahead of Yamaha Tech3 team mate Cal Crutchlow who were the last two riders to be within a second from Stoner.
Hector Barbera was once again the fastest Ducati rider outpacing both factory riders Valentino Rossi (9th) and Nicky Hayden who closed out the top ten.
France’s home boy Randy de Puniet was the fastest CRT rider ahead of Yonny Hernandez and Mattia Pasini, who suffered a crash.
Aleix Espargaro suffered his second crash of the day while Danilo Petrucci’s Ioda/Aprilia was halted by a very smokey engine failure halfway through the session, and NGM Forward replacement and former MotoGP rider Chris Vermeulen cut almost 1.
5s from his morning’s lap time.
MotoGP Le Mans FP2 results:1 Casey STONER AUS Repsol Honda Team Honda 307,6 1′33.
7402 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 308,5 1′34.
005 0.
265 / 0.
2653 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 304,1 1′34.
136 0.
396 / 0.
1314 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 305,3 1′34.
437 0.
697 / 0.
3015 Ben SPIES USA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 300,3 1′34.
467 0.
727 / 0.
0306 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 304,3 1′34.
585 0.
845 / 0.
1187 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 304,3 1′34.
610 0.
870 / 0.
0258 Hector BARBERA SPA Pramac Racing Team Ducati 309,2 1′35.
079 1.
339 / 0.
4699 Valentino ROSSI ITA Ducati Team Ducati 302,2 1′35.
112 1.
372 / 0.
03310 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 301,8 1′35.
132 1.
392 / 0.
02011 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 303,6 1′35.
201 1.
461 / 0.
06912 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing Ducati 305,8 1′35.
787 2.
047 / 0.
58613 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Power Electronics Aspar ART 287,8 1′36.
438 2.
698 / 0.
65114 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Avintia Blusens BQR 287,5 1′36.
928 3.
188 / 0.
49015 Mattia PASINI ITA Speed Master ART 286,1 1′37.
093 3.
353 / 0.
16516 Michele PIRRO ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini FTR 286,9 1′37.
310 3.
570 / 0.
21717 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Power Electronics Aspar ART 287,6 1′37.
585 3.
845 / 0.
27518 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Came IodaRacing Project Ioda 273,3 1′38.
255 4.
515 / 0.
67019 Ivan SILVA SPA Avintia Blusens BQR 286,9 1′38.
260 4.
520 / 0.
00520 James ELLISON GBR Paul Bird Motorsport ART 284,2 1′38.
395 4.
655 / 0.
13521 Chris VERMEULEN AUS NGM Mobile Forward Racing Suter 286,8 1′39.
383 5.
643 / 0.
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