MotoGP World Champion Marc Márquez finished in first position the first day of testing that are taking part in Sepang.
Márquez set a time of 2”00.286 and was half a second ahead of Valentino Rossi. The Italian finished in front of Dani Pedrosa. His Spanish teammate in Yamaha, Jorge Lorenzo, finished the day in fourth position. Honda satellite drivers, Álvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl, completed the top six positions.
Aleix Espargaró put his Forward Racing Open bike up in seventh place, ahead of satellite Ducati rider Andrea Iannone. His brother Pol finished ninth, in front of his teammate Bradley Smith, in tenth position.
Official Ducati riders, Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow, are still struggling to set fast times. The Italian team has to decide if they will race in the Open class, which could be revealed when testing finishes.
First day of testing results:
| 1 | MARQUEZ, Marc | Repsol Honda Team |
2:00.286 |
52 / 62 |
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| 2 | ROSSI, Valentino | Yamaha Factory Racing |
2:00.804 |
0.518 |
0.518 |
58 / 61 |
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| 3 | PEDROSA, Dani | Repsol Honda Team |
2:00.906 |
0.620 |
0.102 |
73 / 75 |
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| 4 | LORENZO, Jorge | Yamaha Factory Racing |
2:01.082 |
0.796 |
0.176 |
26 / 47 |
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| 5 | BAUTISTA, Alvaro | GO&FUN Honda Gresini |
2:01.240 |
0.954 |
0.158 |
48 / 52 |
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| 6 | BRADL, Stefan | LCR Honda MotoGP |
2:01.320 |
1.034 |
0.080 |
31 / 61 |
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| 7 | ESPARGARO, Aleix | NGM Mobile Forward Racing |
2:01.419 |
1.133 |
0.099 |
19 / 26 |
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| 8 | IANNONE, Andrea | Pramac Racing |
2:01.538 |
1.252 |
0.119 |
38 / 44 |
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| 9 | ESPARGARO, Pol | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 |
2:01.634 |
1.348 |
0.096 |
42 / 48 |
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| 10 | SMITH, Bradley | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 |
2:01.876 |
1.590 |
0.242 |
54 / 55 |
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| 11 | EDWARDS, Colin | NGM Mobile Forward Racing |
2:02.483 |
2.197 |
0.607 |
25 / 26 |
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| 12 | DOVIZIOSO, Andrea | Ducati Team |
2:02.497 |
2.211 |
0.014 |
21 / 27 |
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| 13 | PIRRO, Michele | Ducati Test Team |
2:02.552 |
2.266 |
0.055 |
47 / 48 |
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| 14 | CRUTCHLOW, Cal | Ducati Team |
2:02.860 |
2.574 |
0.308 |
16 / 38 |
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| 15 | HERNANDEZ, Yonny | Energy T.I. Pramac Racing |
2:02.891 |
2.605 |
0.031 |
28 / 49 |
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| 16 | NAKASUGA, Katsuyuki | Yamaha Factory Test Team |
2:03.126 |
2.840 |
0.235 |
14 / 35 |
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| 17 | HAYDEN, Nicky | Drive M7 Aspar |
2:03.319 |
3.033 |
0.193 |
53 / 56 |
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| 18 | AOYAMA, Hiroshi | Drive M7 Aspar |
2:03.328 |
3.042 |
0.009 |
49 / 51 |
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| 19 | DE PUNIET, Randy | Suzuki Test Team |
2:03.893 |
3.607 |
0.565 |
47 / 75 |
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| 20 | AKIYOSHI, Kosuke | HRC Test Team |
2:04.267 |
3.981 |
0.374 |
27 / 64 |
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| 21 | REDDING, Scott | GO&FUN Honda Gresini |
2:04.431 |
4.145 |
0.164 |
41 / 48 |
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| 22 | BARBERA, Hector | Avintia Racing |
2:04.922 |
4.636 |
0.491 |
34 / 44 |
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| 23 | DI MEGLIO, Mike | Avintia Racing |
2:05.825 |
5.539 |
0.903 |
50 / 51 |
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| 24 | PARKES, Broc | Paul Bird Motorport |
2:05.889 |
5.603 |
0.064 |
32 / 40 |
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| 25 | LAVERTY, Michael | Paul Bird Motorsport |
2:06.070 |
5.784 |
0.181 |
14 / 14 |
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| 26 | ABRAHAM, Karel | Cardion AB Motoracing |
2:06.755 |
6.469 |
0.685 |
21 / 41 |
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