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October 13th, 2012, 12:40 PM
MotoGP Motegi qualifying report—Lorenzo on pole with lap record
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Jorge Lorenzo grabs 50th career pole position with last lap, ousting rival Dani Pedrosa off pole, with Cal Crutchlow third; Ben Spies fourth despite crash, Valentino Rossi ninth, Nicky Hayden 10th, Colin Edwards 16th (http://www.sportrider.com/news/MotoGP_Motegi_qualifying_report_Lorenzo_on_pole/)MOTEGI, JAPAN, OCT 13 - Practice and qualifying for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi produced the usual suspects at the top of the order, but not by the usual gap.
Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo stole the MotoGP pole from Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa, but it took the fastest ever lap by a motorcycle around the Twin Ring Motegi to do it. Pedrosa was on top of qualifying when time expired, but Lorenzo wasn’t finished. He was faster at every interval and when he crossed the line at the end of the hour, he had a new lap record.
His lap time of 1:44.969 was well under the previous mark of 1:45.257 set by Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) in taking last year’s pole. Pedrosa was second by 0.246 seconds, then there was a cluster that was hanging close by.
The pole was the 50th of Lorenzo’s career in Grand Prix racing and sixth of the year. It came as something of a surpise since many believed the stop-start nature of Motegi would favor the harder-accelerating Hondas and the seamless shift gearbox. Clearly that wasn’t the case. Three of the top four qualifiers were Yamaha mounted. Behind Pedrosa came Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Cal Crutchlow, on the front row for the sixth time, and Yamaha’s Ben Spies, who’d flirted with both the pole and the front row.
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Jorge Lorenzo grabs 50th career pole position with last lap, ousting rival Dani Pedrosa off pole, with Cal Crutchlow third; Ben Spies fourth despite crash, Valentino Rossi ninth, Nicky Hayden 10th, Colin Edwards 16th (http://www.sportrider.com/news/MotoGP_Motegi_qualifying_report_Lorenzo_on_pole/)MOTEGI, JAPAN, OCT 13 - Practice and qualifying for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi produced the usual suspects at the top of the order, but not by the usual gap.
Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo stole the MotoGP pole from Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa, but it took the fastest ever lap by a motorcycle around the Twin Ring Motegi to do it. Pedrosa was on top of qualifying when time expired, but Lorenzo wasn’t finished. He was faster at every interval and when he crossed the line at the end of the hour, he had a new lap record.
His lap time of 1:44.969 was well under the previous mark of 1:45.257 set by Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) in taking last year’s pole. Pedrosa was second by 0.246 seconds, then there was a cluster that was hanging close by.
The pole was the 50th of Lorenzo’s career in Grand Prix racing and sixth of the year. It came as something of a surpise since many believed the stop-start nature of Motegi would favor the harder-accelerating Hondas and the seamless shift gearbox. Clearly that wasn’t the case. Three of the top four qualifiers were Yamaha mounted. Behind Pedrosa came Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Cal Crutchlow, on the front row for the sixth time, and Yamaha’s Ben Spies, who’d flirted with both the pole and the front row.
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