After this morning’s crash strewn free practice at Sachsenring, this afternoon’s FP2 was carried out with higher track temperatures (36°C) and less wind, so lap times improved and only two riders crashed, but it had nothing to do with the cold tire syndrome.

Finishing on the top of the charts was again Marco Simoncelli, the Gresini rider grabbed the quickest time after pipping Jorge Lorenzo with his final last lap lunge and by just 0.095s. Following Simoncelli and Lorenzo were Honda Repsol’s complete line-up, Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner and Andrea Dovizioso.

Nicky Hayden took sixth, while team-mate Valentino Rossi’s bad luck continued, his Ducati GP11.1 died again, just like it did at the Mugello (twice) with some sort of electronic issue, and he could only finish in a lowly 12th spot, with only Hector Barbera, who was one of the riders who crashed late in the session, and Pramac Ducati’s stand in for Loris Capirossi, Sylvain Guintoli bringing up the rear.

Ben Spies was seventh, followed by Randy de Puniet, Alvaro Bautista and rookie Karel Abraham closed out the top ten. The other rider to crash was Cal Crutchlow, both he and Hector Barbera seemed not to have pick up any injuries.

MotoGP Sachsenring FP2 results:

01- Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 1’22.225
02- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.095
03- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.207
04- Casey Stoner – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.317
05- Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.429
06- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 0.657
07- Ben Spies – Yamaha Factory Racing Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.669
08- Randy De Puniet – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 0.812
09- Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki MotoGP – Suzuki GSV-R – + 1.036
10- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 1.127
11- Colin Edwards – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.206
12- Valentino Rossi – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11.1 – + 1.308
13- Hector Barbera – Mapfre Aspar Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 1.400
14- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.535
15- Hiroshi Aoyama – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – + 1.681
16- Toni Elias – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC212V – + 2.079
17- Sylvain Guintoli – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 3.739

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