Second MotoGP-testday in Buriram

17.02.2018
The second day of official MotoGP testing at the Buriram circuit in Thailand finished at 5.30 pm local time. Respecting the programme for the first two days,the last fifteen minutes of the session were dedicated exclusively to practice starts for the MotoGP riders.

Today the two factory Ducati riders again carried on with development work on their Desmosedici GP18 machines and preparation for the race scheduled for 7th October at this track.

Andrea Dovizioso finished the second session in ninth place with a time of 1’30.494, followed in tenth by Jorge Lorenzo, whose best lap was 1’30.729.

Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team #04): 1’30.494 (9th) - 78 laps
“Today we did a lot of work, making comparisons both with the new fairings and with a new version of the frame, and so I’m satisfied to have had an entire day to test these new components. As always there are pros and cons, but luckily we went strongly with all the new stuff and this is really positive. We were fast without using the soft tyre, but here probably the lap times are more difficult to interpret than in Malaysia, especially because Michelin still doesn’t have much experience on this track and so it seems that the right tyres for the race will be the harder ones, quite similar to those used in the Austrian GP. It’s not so easy to interpret the level of the other riders, but also today our bike proved to be very competitive.”

Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team #99): 1’30.729 (10th) - 57 laps
“Once again today wasn’t such a positive day for me. We weren’t competitive enough, I don’t have a good feeling with my bike and we still have to understand the reasons why. Even though it might seem that I’m riding better in several points of the track, other riders are going even better and for this reason we are some way behind in our lap times. However we’ve got a few ideas for tomorrow which should help us resolve these problems and get me to improve my pace above all.”

Here are the results of the second testday:

Pos.	Name	Bike	Time
1	Marc Márquez	Honda	1:29,969 min
2	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	0,158 sec
3	Jack Miller	Ducati	+0,216
4	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	+0,305
5	Johann Zarco	Yamaha	+0,391
6	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	+0,398
7	Alex Rins	Suzuki	+0,477
8	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	+0,521
9	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	+0,525
10	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	+0,760
11	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	+0,806
12	Tito Rabat	Ducati	+0,886
13	Álvaro Bautista	Ducati	+0,914
14	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	+0,919
15	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	+0,932
16	Bradley Smith	KTM	+1,144
17	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	+1,161
18	Franco Morbidelli	Honda	+1,216
19	Mika Kallio	KTM	+1,629
20	Scott Redding	Aprilia	+1,668
21	Karel Abraham	Ducati	+1,692
22	Tom Lüthi	Honda	+2,025
23	Hafizh Syahrin	Yamaha	+2,029
24	Xavier Siméon	Ducati	+2,298

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