Marc Marquez blitzes field in fourth free practice at COTA

The fourth and untimed 30 minute MotoGP practice session at Austin was dominated by Marc Marquez, who lowered Dani Pedrosa’s FP3 best lap time and he was the only rider to break the 2.
04 barrier and top the timesheets in 2.

03.
779.
Dani Pedrosa ended up second and a little more than four tenths adrift and followed by Jorge Lorenzo who was nine tenths adrift and with his last flying lap pushed Yamaha Tech3 rider Cal Crutchlow to fourth.

Stefan Bradl had an excellent session and he was fifth and using hard tires just like Marquez.

Andrea Dovizioso put in fast final lap that moved him to sixth and once again ahead of Valentino Rossi who did improve but can’t get out of seventh and he was one second slower than his team mate.
Gresini’s Alvaro Bautista was right on the Italian tail just 0.
053s.
Nicky Hayden took his Ducati into ninth while Andrea Iannone made a massive jump forward to finish tenth – he’ll try to enter QP2 – and ahead of Aleix Espargaro, Randy de Puniet and Ben Spies- 2013 MotoGP Austin FP4 results:01- Marc Marquez – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – 2’03.

779 02- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.
404 03- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
901 04- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
046 05- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 1.
217 06- Andrea Dovizioso – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
779 07- Valentino Rossi – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
900 08- Alvaro Bautista – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 1.
953 09- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 2.
346 10- Andrea Iannone – Energy T.
I.
Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 2.
501 11- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 2.
629 12- Randy De Puniet – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 3.
310 13- Ben Spies – Ignite Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 3.
525 14- Bradley Smith – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 3.
631 15- Hector Barbera – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 4.
160 16- Yonny Hernandez – Paul Bird Motorsport – ART GP13 – + 4.
163 17- Colin Edwards – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Kawasaki – + 4.
604 18- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – ART GP13 – + 4.
826 19- Michael Laverty – Paul Bird Motorsport – PBM 01 – + 5.
039 20- Hiroshi Aoyama – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 5.
155 21- Claudio Corti – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Kawasaki – + 5.
223 22- Danilo Petrucci – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW – + 5.
318 23- Lukas Pesek – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW – + 6.
239 24- Bryan Staring – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – FTR Honda MGP13 – + 6.
253 25- Blake Young – Attack Performance Racing – Attack Performance APR – + 7.
339 26- Mike Barnes – GPTech – BCL GP212 – + 10.
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