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MOTOGP: Spies Fastest in WU, Stoner Sixth
The beaten-up Ben Spies and Casey Stoner impressed with their Sunday morning warm-up form.
Yamaha Factory Racing's Ben Spies (Photo: Yamaha Racing)
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They may be walking wounded but they still ride pretty well.
The crashes of reigning World Champion Casey Stoner, former World Superbike champ Ben Spies, and former MotoGP champ Nicky Hayden dominated the headlines following Saturday's QP practice.
While Hayden was already declared unfit to ride today, the participation of Stoner and Spies wasn't fully established. Stoner, in particular, seemed in doubt, as he suffered various fractures and torn ligaments in his lower leg on Saturday.
However, both men participated in the warm-up and looked strong. Spies showed no ill effects, posting the two fastest laps of the session to finish in P1 with a time of 1:39.275, considerably better than the mark of pole man Dani Pedrosa, who ranked second at 1:39.582.
Stoner put in ten laps and wound up sixth on the order, pushed out of fifth in the session's final moments when Cal Crutchlow posted his best lap to move up to fourth, slotting ahead of Stoner and Tech3 teammate Andrea Dovizioso.
Points leader Jorge Lorenzo was in impressive form again today after stepping up to qualify second in the absence of Stoner and Spies. The Spaniard was third best this morning at 1:39.625.
While the speed looks to be there for the banged-up riders, their ability to hold up over full-race distance won't be answered until this afternoon. And it's a major question -- if not for their Saturday crashes, Stoner and Spies would be regarded as two of the three primary favorites to win the fifth running of the Red Bull Indianapolis GP.
SPEED.com Motorcycle Racing Editor Chris Martin saw Eddie Lawson win aboard a Kawasaki the first time he attended an AMA Superbike race and witnessed Ben Bostrom win a World Superbike race aboard a V&H Ducati the first time he worked one. He has written about AMA SBK, WSBK, and MotoGP for SPEED.com since 2003. Chris is now on Twitter.
They may be walking wounded but they still ride pretty well.
The crashes of reigning World Champion Casey Stoner, former World Superbike champ Ben Spies, and former MotoGP champ Nicky Hayden dominated the headlines following Saturday's QP practice.
While Hayden was already declared unfit to ride today, the participation of Stoner and Spies wasn't fully established. Stoner, in particular, seemed in doubt, as he suffered various fractures and torn ligaments in his lower leg on Saturday.
However, both men participated in the warm-up and looked strong. Spies showed no ill effects, posting the two fastest laps of the session to finish in P1 with a time of 1:39.275, considerably better than the mark of pole man Dani Pedrosa, who ranked second at 1:39.582.
Stoner put in ten laps and wound up sixth on the order, pushed out of fifth in the session's final moments when Cal Crutchlow posted his best lap to move up to fourth, slotting ahead of Stoner and Tech3 teammate Andrea Dovizioso.
Points leader Jorge Lorenzo was in impressive form again today after stepping up to qualify second in the absence of Stoner and Spies. The Spaniard was third best this morning at 1:39.625.
While the speed looks to be there for the banged-up riders, their ability to hold up over full-race distance won't be answered until this afternoon. And it's a major question -- if not for their Saturday crashes, Stoner and Spies would be regarded as two of the three primary favorites to win the fifth running of the Red Bull Indianapolis GP.
SPEED.com Motorcycle Racing Editor Chris Martin saw Eddie Lawson win aboard a Kawasaki the first time he attended an AMA Superbike race and witnessed Ben Bostrom win a World Superbike race aboard a V&H Ducati the first time he worked one. He has written about AMA SBK, WSBK, and MotoGP for SPEED.com since 2003. Chris is now on Twitter.
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