Freehold Honda in Sepang

Casey Stoner once again set the fastest time on the second day of preseason testing at Sepang on a day when Honda topped the first three positions with Dani Pedrosa second and Italian Andrea Dovizioso third. The 2007 world champion managed to beat the lap record at 2.00.171 Malaysian rolling in his final turn, beating by 58 thousandths Pedrosa, who had dominated the session from the early stages.

Stoner improved the lap record, held by Valentino Rossi, absent with flu on Wednesday, with 2.00.518 since 2009, and again demonstrated the power of the ‘RC212V’, with Dovizioso closing the provisional podium 2:00.531 .

Hector Barbera and Alvaro Bautista to qualify among the top ten and Toni Elias still does not offer its best!

The official Yamaha team tried to match the times of Honda, but had to settle for fourth in the American Ben Spies, to 653 thousandths of Stoner, and the fifth of current world champion Jorge Lorenzo, at 760 mil. Anyway, the Texan suffered a fall afternoon, when fighting with the stopwatch at the last minute. The incident had no physical consequences, but left without options to improve his best lap.

Lorenzo, meanwhile, lowered by several tenths fastest lap of the first day and was the last to shoot below 2.01 (2:00.931), but their performance could not stop the advance of the official Honda. The rest of Spanish, Hector Barbera (Ducati) and Alvaro Bautista (Suzuki) to qualify in the top ten, and Toni Elias (Honda), Moto2 world champion, still offers the best version and is far from the top places .