Sepang MotoGP: Dani Pedrosa tops practice one for Honda

Pedrosa, who won at the circuit in 2012 and '13, set his best lap of 2m00.412s inside the first 10 minutes.

Title protagonist Jorge Lorenzo ended up second fastest, 0.210 seconds down on Pedrosa, moving up above the other Honda rider Marc Marquez with just under 18 minutes left.

Championship leader Valentino Rossi completed the top four, half a second down on Pedrosa.

The two British Honda riders were next up, with Scott Redding moving into fifth for the Marc VDS team with five minutes remaining and LCR's Cal Crutchlow taking sixth before the end.

Crutchlow had crashed at Turn 5 with just 12 minutes left on the clock but went straight back out on his second bike to set his best time.

Andrea Iannone was seventh as the leading Ducati rider, in front of Open class Ducati man Hector Barbera, Suzuki's Aleix Espargaro and his own team-mate Andrea Dovizioso.

Bradley Smith had a quiet session on his Tech 3 Yamaha, 1.9s down in 15th place.

Alvaro Bautista joined Crutchlow in crashing during the session, going down at Turn 15 on his Aprilia at around the same time.

PRACTICE ONE TIMES:

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	Honda	2m00.412s	-	16
2	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	Yamaha	2m00.622s	0.210s	14
3	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	2m00.736s	0.324s	17
4	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	2m00.915s	0.503s	17
5	Scott Redding	Marc VDS	Honda	2m01.218s	0.806s	17
6	Cal Crutchlow	LCR	Honda	2m01.235s	0.823s	15
7	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	Ducati	2m01.421s	1.009s	17
8	Hector Barbera	Avintia Racing	Ducati	2m01.616s	1.204s	13
9	Aleix Espargaro	Suzuki	Suzuki	2m01.741s	1.329s	15
10	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	2m01.917s	1.505s	17
11	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Racing	Ducati	2m01.957s	1.545s	17
12	Maverick Vinales	Suzuki	Suzuki	2m02.258s	1.846s	15
13	Pol Espargaro	Tech 3	Yamaha	2m02.259s	1.847s	18
14	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	2m02.314s	1.902s	17
15	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	Yamaha	2m02.323s	1.911s	18
16	Nicky Hayden	Aspar	Honda	2m02.590s	2.178s	16
17	Yonny Hernandez	Pramac Racing	Ducati	2m03.072s	2.660s	15
18	Jack Miller	LCR	Honda	2m03.136s	2.724s	16
19	Alvaro Bautista	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	2m03.228s	2.816s	14
20	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia Racing	Ducati	2m03.394s	2.982s	14
21	Loris Baz	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	2m03.429s	3.017s	14
22	Eugene Laverty	Aspar	Honda	2m03.938s	3.526s	16
23	Toni Elias	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	2m04.496s	4.084s	16
24	Anthony West	AB Motoracing	Honda	2m05.793s	5.381s	17
25	Damian Cudlin	IodaRacing Project	ART/Aprilia	2m07.552s	7.140s	14