[kropotkin thinks...] - 2012 IRTA MotoGP Jerez Test Day 1 Times, 1pm: Lorenzo Leads P

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The track is busy at Jerez for the first joint test of all of the MotoGP factory prototypes and CRT bikes together, and despite strong winds, all of the riders are out and hard at work. Times, though, are slow: Jorge Lorenzo is nearly a second and a half off the 2011 pole set by Casey Stoner, a natural result of the wind and the fact that this is the first morning of the test.

At lunchtime, it is Jorge Lorenzo who is fastest, just ahead of Dani Pedrosa and Ben Spies, with Casey Stoner a little further behind in 4th. Nicky Hayden is first of the Ducatis with the 5th fastest time, ahead of the satellite Yamaha of Cal Crutchlow and the second Ducati factory bike of Valentino Rossi. As expected, Randy de Puniet is the fastest CRT bike, the Frenchman just under a second and a half behind Lorenzo, but ahead of the two satellite Ducatis of Hector Barbera and Karel Abraham.

Times at 1:08pm:

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