Grand Prix of The Americas

Round 2 - Friday, April 11th 2014

Americas - Practice Report

Weather conditions

Sunny

27°C
Air temp

45°C
Track temp

51%
Humidity

Marquez remains fastest on first day at the Red Bull GP of The Americas

World Champion, Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez, has finished the first day in Texas a second faster than his next competitor, with teammate Dani Pedrosa in third.

With air temperatures 7ºC warmer than this morning, and the track temperature 20ºC hotter, all the riders were able to improve on this morning’s FP1 time. Both Marc and Dani spent the afternoon session, and set their fastest times, on the hard front and rear option Bridgestone tyres with Marc’s fastest time of 2’03.490 (just 0.469s off his pole time from 2013) coming on lap 9 of 15, and Dani’s time of 2’04.623 on his final lap of 15.

FP3 will commence tomorrow at 09h55 local time.

Team Quotes

1st - 2'03.490

“This first day of practice in Austin went really well. Obviously I’m happy with the time I set, and also with the gap of a second between myself and the next quickest rider. However, the most important thing for me is that my leg feels ok – much better than it did in Qatar. The injury was bothering me a little, but I was able to participate in both Free Practice sessions without taking any painkillers. Now I just have to wait for tomorrow and see if things go better or worse for us then; we know that we have a small advantage and we will try to manage it well, but I am aware that the rest of the riders will also make improvements”

3rd - 2'04.623

"Today we did a good job with the tyres. We tried the hard compound and it went fairly well for us. Although we didn’t go very fast, we have a good feeling and I think that with a few tweaks to the setup we can take a big step forward and improve considerably tomorrow. Today was a positive day for us”

practice results

Grand Prix of The Americas - Round 2

Pos.	Rider	Num.	Nation	Team	Constructor	Time/Gap
1	Marc Marquez	93	ESP	Repsol Honda Team	HONDA	2'03.490
2	Andrea Dovizioso	4	ITA	Ducati Team	DUCATI	2'04.495
3	Dani Pedrosa	26	ESP	Repsol Honda Team	HONDA	2'04.623
4	Andrea Iannone	29	ITA	Pramac Racing	DUCATI	2'04.669
5	Valentino Rossi	46	ITA	Yamaha Factory	YAMAHA	2'04.793
6	Aleix Espargaro	41	ESP	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	YAMAHA	2'04.844
7	Stefan Bradl	6	GER	LCR Honda MotoGP	HONDA	2'04.870
8	Jorge Lorenzo	99	ESP	Yamaha Factory Racing	YAMAHA	2'04.976
9	Cal Crutchlow	35	GBR	Ducati Team	DUCATI	2'04.981
10	Bradley Smith	38	GBR	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	YAMAHA	2'05.366
11	Alvaro Bautista	19	ESP	Go & Fun Honda Gresini	HONDA	2'05.453
12	Pol Espargaro	44	ESP	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	YAMAHA	2'05.672
13	Scott Redding	45	GBR	Go & Fun Honda Gresini	HONDA	2'05.937
14	Nicky Hayden	69	USA	Drive M7 Aspar	HONDA	2'06.188
15	Yonny Hernandez	68	COL	Pramac Racing	DUCATI	2'06.376
16	Colin Edwards	5	USA	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	YAMAHA	2'06.880
17	Hiroshi Aoyama	7	JPN	Drive M7 Aspar	HONDA	2'07.034
18	Karel Abraham	17	CZE	Cardion AB Motoracing	HONDA	2'07.053
19	Hector Barbera	8	ESP	Avintia Racing MotoGP	FTR-KAWASAKI	2'07.211
20	Danilo Petrucci	9	ITA	IodaRacing Project	IODA-SUTER	2'08.379
21	Michael Laverty	70	GBR	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART & PBM	2'08.973
22	Broc Parkes	23	AUS	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	2'09.004
23	Mike Di Meglio	63	FRA	Avintia Racing MotoGP	FTR-KAWASAKI	2'09.247

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Circuit Information

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Length	5.513 m / 3.426 miles
Width	15m
Left corners	11
Right corners	9
Longest straight	1.200 m / 0.746 miles
Constructed	2012
Modified

9201 Circuit of the Americas Blvd
Austin, TX 78617

www.circuitoftheamericas.com

Pole Position	2m 03.021s (161.3 km/h) Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013)
Race Lap	2m 04.242s (159.7 km/h) Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013)
Race Time	43m 42.123s (158.9 km/h) (Marc Marquez Honda, 2013)
2013 Race Winner	Marc Marquez (Honda)