PHILLIP ISLAND
MOTOGP TEST REPORT
P60
Motos 2 and 3 test at Jerez
over the same time, and get their
own Losail test from March 11 to
13, before the first race at the
same circuit on March 20. CN
machine for the final Losail tests,
for riders Stefan Bradl and Alvaro
Bautista.
The final round of MotoGP tests
are at Losail from March 2 to 4.
approach; then injury victim
Petrucci, with Jack Miller 15th,
ahead of class rookie teammate
Tito Rabat. It was Miller's first
outing on the latest Michelins,
and while still not fully recuper-
ated from his leg fracture, man-
aged "a heap of laps" (almost
90), and was "stoked to be back
on the bike."
The Marc VDS pair were the
last inside a second of the best
time, with Aleix Espargaro a rath-
er dismayed 17th on the second
Suzuki, battling with geometry
and electronics before falling
twice to cap a bad three days.
Yonny Hernandez and Eugene
Laverty were likewise struggling
with the Aspar team's new Duca-
tis; with Suzuki test rider Takuya
Tsuda rounding out the top 20.
Aprilia missed the second
round of tests, working back in
Italy to ready their all-new 2016
>>PHILLIP ISLAND MOTOGP TEST COMBINED TIMES
1 Maverick Viñales ESP Team Suzuki Ecstar 1:29.131s
2 Marc Marquez ESP Repsol Honda Team +0.027s
3 Cal Crutchlow GBR LCR Honda +0.217s
4 Jorge Lorenzo ESP Movistar Yamaha MotoGP +0.226s
5 Hector Barbera ESP Avintia Racing +0.230s
6 Valentino Rossi ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP +0.273s
7 Loris Baz FRA Avintia Racing +0.452s
8 Dani Pedrosa ESP Repsol Honda Team +0.475s
9 Pol Espargaro ESP Monster Yamaha Tech 3 +0.587s
10 Andrea Iannone ITA Ducati Team +0.726s
11 Andrea Dovizioso ITA Ducati Team +0.729s
12 Scott Redding GBR Octo Pramac Yakhnich +0.791s
13 Bradley Smith GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 +0.861s
14 Danilo Petrucci ITA Octo Pramac Yakhnich +0.864s
15 Jack Miller AUS Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS +0.892s
16 Tito Rabat ESP Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS +0.988s
17 Aleix Espargaro ESP Team Suzuki Ecstar +1.067s
18 Yonny Hernandez COL Aspar MotoGP Team +1.361s
19 Eugene Laverty IRL Aspar MotoGP Team +1.486s
20 Takuya Tsuda JPN Suzuki Test Rider +3.468s
Iannone missed
the seagulls at the
Island and ended
up 10
th
.
