Hertz British Grand Prix Silverstone Round 6 SPOILERS

[The Don]

I hope the new front tire help Stoner claw his way back

[desmoquattro]

FP1 was wet...let's hope it stays that way.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100374

Pos  Rider             Team/Bike                 Time       Gap
 1.  Valentino Rossi   Ducati                    2m19.328s
 2.  Nicky Hayden      Ducati                    2m19.405s  + 0.077s
 3.  Andrea Dovizioso  Tech 3 Yamaha             2m20.127s  + 0.799s
 4.  Casey Stoner      Honda                     2m20.321s  + 0.993s
 5.  Cal Crutchlow     Tech 3 Yamaha             2m21.263s  + 1.935s
 6.  Stefan Bradl      LCR Honda                 2m21.917s  + 2.589s
 7.  Dani Pedrosa      Honda                     2m22.713s  + 3.385s
 8.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha                    2m23.174s  + 3.846s
 9.  Alvaro Bautista   Gresini Honda             2m23.326s  + 3.998s
10.  Hector Barbera    Pramac Ducati             2m24.150s  + 4.822s
11.  Ben Spies         Yamaha                    2m24.214s  + 4.886s
12.  Randy de Puniet   Aspar Aprilia             2m24.360s  + 5.032s
13.  Mattia Pasini     Speed Master Aprilia      2m24.390s  + 5.062s
14.  Danilo Petrucci   Ioda-Aprilia              2m25.012s  + 5.684s
15.  Michele Pirro     Gresini FTR-Honda         2m25.051s  + 5.723s
16.  Aleix Espargaro   Aspar Aprilia             2m25.065s  + 5.737s
17.  James Ellison     Paul Bird Aprilia         2m25.150s  + 5.822s
18.  Yonny Hernandez   Avintia FTR-Kawasaki      2m25.298s  + 5.970s
19.  Ivan Silva        Avintia Inmotec-Kawasaki  2m28.615s  + 9.287s
20.  Colin Edwards     Forward Suter-BMW         2m31.468s  + 12.140s

The Ducati rider had led the field during the first half of the session as the weather conditions restricted riders from dipping below the 2m23s bracket.

But as the light rain eased and eventually stopped in the final 10 minutes, times improved by around four seconds. That allowed Rossi to knock his team-mate Nicky Hayden off the top spot by 0.077 seconds with a time of 2m19.328s.

[Speeddog]

I hope the new front tire help Stoner claw his way back

 

[The Don]

1   1   Casey STONER   AUS   Repsol Honda Team   Honda   309.8   2'04.791   
2   11   Ben SPIES   USA   Yamaha Factory Racing   Yamaha   308.8   2'04.825   0.034 / 0.034
3   19   Alvaro BAUTISTA   SPA   San Carlo Honda Gresini   Honda   308.9   2'04.995   0.204 / 0.170
4   69   Nicky HAYDEN   USA   Ducati Team   Ducati   305.4   2'05.353   0.562 / 0.358
5   6   Stefan BRADL   GER   LCR Honda MotoGP   Honda   312.4   2'05.391   0.600 / 0.038
6   4   Andrea DOVIZIOSO   ITA   Monster Yamaha Tech 3   Yamaha   311.8   2'05.448   0.657 / 0.057
7   99   Jorge LORENZO   SPA   Yamaha Factory Racing   Yamaha   307.7   2'05.488   0.697 / 0.040
8   35   Cal CRUTCHLOW   GBR   Monster Yamaha Tech 3   Yamaha   308.2   2'05.574   0.783 / 0.086
9   26   Dani PEDROSA   SPA   Repsol Honda Team   Honda   309.1   2'05.886   1.095 / 0.312
10   8   Hector BARBERA   SPA   Pramac Racing Team   Ducati   311.8   2'06.084   1.293 / 0.198
11   46   Valentino ROSSI   ITA   Ducati Team   Ducati   310.5   2'07.125   2.334 / 1.041
12   14   Randy DE PUNIET   FRA   Power Electronics Aspar   ART   290.7   2'07.893   3.102 / 0.768
13   51   Michele PIRRO   ITA   San Carlo Honda Gresini   FTR   287.9   2'08.535   3.744 / 0.642
14   54   Mattia PASINI   ITA   Speed Master   ART   286.6   2'08.975   4.184 / 0.440
15   68   Yonny HERNANDEZ   COL   Avintia Blusens   BQR   288.2   2'09.078   4.287 / 0.103
16   41   Aleix ESPARGARO   SPA   Power Electronics Aspar   ART   287.6   2'09.379   4.588 / 0.301
17   77   James ELLISON   GBR   Paul Bird Motorsport   ART   289.5   2'09.944   5.153 / 0.565
18   9   Danilo PETRUCCI   ITA   Came IodaRacing Project   Ioda   274.5   2'11.325   6.534 / 1.381
19   5   Colin EDWARDS   USA   NGM Mobile Forward Racing   Suter   284.4   2'11.600   6.809 / 0.275
20   22   Ivan SILVA   SPA   Avintia Blusens   BQR   285.6   2'12.737   7.946 / 1.137
   17   Karel ABRAHAM   CZE   Cardion AB Motoracing   Ducati   

[zooom]

FP3

Pos. Rider Team Bike Time
1 Casey Stoner Repsol Honda Team Honda RC213V 2:03.941
2 Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha M1 2:04.357
3 Ben Spies Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha M1 2:04.427
4 Andrea Dovizioso Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha M1 2:04.566
5 Alvaro Bautista Honda Gresini Honda RC213V 2:04.866
6 Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda Team Honda RC213V 2:05.021
7 Nicky Hayden Marlboro Ducati Team Ducati GP12 2:05.114
8 Hector Barbera Pramac Racing Team Ducati GP12 2:06.377
9 Valentino Rossi Marlboro Ducati Team Ducati GP12 2:06.548
10 Randy De Puniet Aspar Team MotoGP ART 2:07.190
11 Aleix Esparago Aspar Team MotoGP ART 2:07.359
12 Michele Pirro Honda Gresini FTR 2:07.846
13 James Ellison Paul Bird Racing ART 2:08.564
14 Mattia Pasini PayMaster ART 2:08.695
15 Yonny Hernandez BQR BQR-FTR 2:09.275
16 Danilo Petrucci Ioda Racing Project Ioda 2:09.643
17 Ivan Silva BQR BQR-FTR 2:10.048
18 Colin Edwards Forward Racing Suter 2:11.935


Cold yet dry. Crutchlow crashed on his out lap, possibly injuring his ankle. Bradl also crashed and injured his hand and or finger.

[ZLTFUL]

Bautista with the Pole. Nice...one of the Spaniards I would actually piss on if they were on fire.

[lazylightnin717]

Bautista with the Pole. Nice...one of the Spaniards I would actually piss on if they were on fire.

 

[mitt]

the ducati crashes during Q were amazingly similar.  Something is definitely different about their bikes.


mitt

[lazylightnin717]

Hayden was on a hot lap there too.

And Rossi struggled all weekend searching for the sound and couldn't find it.

Needless to say, I'm praying for rain

[duccarlos]

Excellent race! Spies looked good the first half, then got gobbled up by the aliens. Baptist looked great keeping up with the Repsol boys, but Crutchlow was downright sick with the broken ankle. It got a bit boring towards the end, but  in general.

[Speeddog]

Really good to see Ben in the lead for a while. 

Crutchlow is a make the beast with two backsin' animal, starting from last and bagging 6th, with a broken ankle. 

[El Matador]

Where's all the Casey is an Animal, he's untouchable, unrivaled talk now?

Lorenzo has been putting on a clinic of how it's done this season. On a bike that's inferior to the Honda.

Great race and great racecraft by Jorge.

[ZLTFUL]

Lorenzo is a beast but Stoner's pace dropped off like a rock so getting around him wasn't a skillful dismantling of a superior opponent but a matter of patience for the Honda to come off the pace.

And before you burst into flames, keep in mind that I told my wife as he was going around Stoner that I may hate him with a passion but he can ride.
But a big part of his win was Stoner not being able to maintain the pace.

[Düb Lüv]

Tom Sykes and Nicky Hayden are alike, but Tom loses traction. what's Nicky's excuse?

[The Don]

On a bike that's inferior to the Honda.

That statement is just not true, the Yamaha's have had it over the Honda's all season. Look at what the non factory yamaha's are doing. That Yamaha is something special. Honda better pull there finger out of there arse or George is going to smash them