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Sepang MotoGP: Pedrosa leads Espargaro and Lorenzo in practice

Dani Pedrosa edged out Aleix Espargaro and Jorge Lorenzo in a top three covered by just 0.037 seconds in opening practice for MotoGP's Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang

Pedrosa was fastest for most of the morning session, initially leading a Honda one-two with team-mate Marc Marquez.

He was deposed by Lorenzo's Yamaha, which in turn was then beaten by Forward Yamaha rider Espargaro with a lap 0.023s faster.

That was despite Espargaro having suffered the only crash of the morning earlier in the session, when he lost his bike under braking into the final corner.

Pedrosa responded on his last run with a lap of 2m01.379s to depose Espargaro by 0.014s.

The performance came a day after Honda announced that it was promoting Ramon Aurin to replace Pedrosa's long-time crew chief Mike Leitner, following months of rumours about big changes on Pedrosa's side of the garage.

His team-mate Marquez never managed to improve on his early time, despite showing better pace in a few sectors, and ended up fourth.

Stefan Bradl and Valentino Rossi completed the top six, followed by Ducati team-mates Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow.

Pos Rider Team Bike Time Gap
1 Dani Pedrosa Honda Honda 2m01.379s -
2 Aleix Espargaro Forward Racing Forward Yamaha 2m01.393s 0.014s
3 Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Yamaha 2m01.416s 0.037s
4 Marc Marquez Honda Honda 2m01.670s 0.291s
5 Stefan Bradl LCR Honda 2m01.716s 0.337s
6 Valentino Rossi Yamaha Yamaha 2m01.842s 0.463s
7 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati Ducati 2m01.971s 0.592s
8 Cal Crutchlow Ducati Ducati 2m02.171s 0.792s
9 Yonny Hernandez Pramac Racing Ducati 2m02.209s 0.830s
10 Pol Espargaro Tech 3 Yamaha 2m02.248s 0.869s
11 Andrea Iannone Pramac Racing Ducati 2m02.597s 1.218s
12 Bradley Smith Tech 3 Yamaha 2m02.627s 1.248s
13 Alvaro Bautista Gresini Racing Honda 2m02.722s 1.343s
14 Hiroshi Aoyama Aspar Honda 2m02.847s 1.468s
15 Scott Redding Gresini Racing Honda 2m02.898s 1.519s
16 Karel Abraham Cardion AB Motoracing Honda 2m02.935s 1.556s
17 Hector Barbera Avintia Racing Ducati 2m03.220s 1.841s
18 Nicky Hayden Aspar Honda 2m03.787s 2.408s
19 Alex de Angelis Forward Racing Forward Yamaha 2m04.454s 3.075s
20 Michael Laverty Paul Bird Motorsport PBM/Aprilia 2m04.553s 3.174s
21 Danilo Petrucci IodaRacing Project ART/Aprilia 2m04.658s 3.279s
22 Mike Di Meglio Avintia Racing Avintia/Kawasaki 2m05.007s 3.628s
23 Broc Parkes Paul Bird Motorsport PBM/Aprilia 2m06.195s 4.816s


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