Another MotoGP free practice at Montmelò that was conditioned by the weather and above all the track condtions, which went from wet to damp and drying that destroyed more than one of Bridgestone’s hard wet tires.
Casey Stoner did another of his amazing numbers while scaring the daylights out of his rivals.
On his second lap out shaved off a massive 2.
086s from the rest of the field on full wets, and when he went out on slicks grabbed the top of the time charts with a best lap of 1.
42.
940.
Marco Simoncelli who was bombarded by cat calls from the crowd everytime he left his garage, tried to match Stoner’s lap times, but was left 0.
528s adrift from the Australian.
Andrea Dovizioso moved into third with a last lap lunge taking the spot from Jorge Lorenzo, who sat out most of the session to return to track with fourteen minutes left and took the fourth spot with just 9 laps on his Yamaha M1.
The first four riders on the provisional grid all improved their lap times from FP1.
Ben Spies also did a last lap lunge to grab fifth, while Valentino Rossi was sixth and a massive 2 seconds from Stoner’s astonishing lap times.
Yamaha’s Tech3 rookie Cal Crutchlow was seventh, while his team mate Colin Edwards crashed out at turn 5 with seven minutes to go and had to be stretchered out.
Edwards has now been diagnosed with a right collarbone fracture.
Closing out the top ten were Hiroshi Aoyama, Nicky Hayden and Alvaro Bautista.
MotoGP Catalunya FP2 results:01- Casey Stoner – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 1’42.
94002- Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – + 0.
52803- Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.
66304- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
87005- Ben Spies – Yamaha Factory Racing Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
91906- Valentino Rossi – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 2.
00407- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 2.
19608- Hiroshi Aoyama – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RRC212V – + 2.
72609- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 2.
77510- Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki MotoGP – Suzuki GSV-R – + 2.
81111- Toni Elias – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC212V – + 2.
82012- Randy De Puniet – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 3.
18613- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 3.
34014- Loris Capirossi – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 3.
42615- Hector Barbera – Mapfre Aspar Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 3.
56116- Colin Edwards – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 8.
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