This morning’s free practice at the Motorland Aragon circuit in Spain was under very sunny skies and rising temperatures and as usual Casey Stoner was fastest out of the garages setting the fastest lap almost immediately, but it was was his Repsol Honda team mate Dani Pedrosa who topped the timesheets with a flying lap at the end of session with a best time of 1.50.281 and shaving off a little more than 2 tenths for last year’s FP1, which he also lead.

Jorge Lorenzo took second and was 0.4 from Pedrosa, while Casey Stoner ended up in third and not very happy with his last set-up. Following the three ‘aliens’ were Marco Simoncelli and Andrea Dovizioso.

All eyes however were on Valentino Rossi’s Ducati GP11.2 (we’re calling it that because it has an aluminum chassis). Rossi started the session on his GP11.1 (at 9th and +1.5s) only to change to the debuting chassis at the half way mark, but his first run with the ‘Evo’ bike destroyed the soft rear tire. The Italian ended up in 8th with the GP11.2 and slower than Randy De Puniet (6th with GP11 satellite bike) and team mate Nicky Hayden 7th with the GP11.1.

Colin Edwards and Hiroshi Aoyama closed out the top ten. Ben Spies was only 11th after running as high as third and ended up 1.630s from Dani Pedrosa.

MotoGP Aragon FP1 results:

01- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 1’50.281
02- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.449
03- Casey Stoner – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.525
04- Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – + 0.612
05- Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – + 0.810
06- Randy De Puniet – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 1.095
07- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11.1 – + 1.137
08- Valentino Rossi – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11.1 – + 1.395
09- Colin Edwards – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.545
10- Hiroshi Aoyama – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – + 1.578
11- Ben Spies – Yamaha Factory Racing Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.630
12- Hector Barbera – Mapfre Aspar Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 1.735
13- Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki MotoGP – Suzuki GSV-R – + 1.943
14- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 2.299
15- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 2.877
16- Toni Elias – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC212V – + 3.159
17- Loris Capirossi – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 3.561

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