{"id":20387,"date":"2016-11-15T18:09:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T18:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/vinales-y-lorenzo-se-estrenan-con-grandes-resultados\/"},"modified":"2016-11-15T18:09:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T18:09:24","slug":"vinales-y-lorenzo-se-estrenan-con-grandes-resultados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/vinales-y-lorenzo-se-estrenan-con-grandes-resultados\/","title":{"rendered":"MotoGP 2017 starts with Vi\u00f1ales on top"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maverick Vi\u00f1ales (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) has topped the first test day for the 2017 MotoGP\u2122 season, up to speed quickly before then stealing the top spot from new yet veteran teammate Valentino Rossi as the day wore on – an incredible statement of intent in his new home. With a 1:30.930, Vi\u00f1ales beat his 9-time World Champion teammate by only 0.020 on the first day, after Rossi led the timesheets for some time. The man he replaced, Jorge Lorenzo, was third quickest in his first outing with the Ducati Team \u2013 only a tenth off the top.<\/p>\n

As the lights went out to signify the start of the first of 2017 testing, somewhere in the midst of a huddle of photographers there was a black-liveried 2016 Ducati preparing to meet its new rider: Lorenzo. Quick to exit the pits once action was underway, the 99 had a new 99 on the bike – with double devil horns.<\/p>\n

After a few laps well off the pace, Lorenzo was soon up to speed; smiling and making adjustments in the pits in good company: test rider Casey Stoner. One of the biggest stories of the day had a happy first chapter, as the number 99 settled into the top ten around six tenths down \u2013 and then went for a final blast around the lengthening shadows of the circuit on the 2016 bike to go red in the first two sectors and cross the line in P3 \u2013 only 0.122s down.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Spartan\u2019 then did a short run on the 2017 bike he is expected to run tomorrow.<\/p>\n

New teammate Andrea Dovizioso was running the 2016 bike in full red and the 2017 in a full black testing livery, ending the day in fifth with a 1:31.31. \u2018DesmoDovi\u2019 was also one of the riders testing new front forks from \u00d6hlins, alongside Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team).<\/p>\n

\"web-marquez-new-1-circuit-ricardo-tormo-test-martes-motogp\"<\/a>Marquez spent his first day in defence of his 2016 World Championship in P3 on the timesheets after proving an early leader in the morning. A best of 1:31.102 after 53 laps saw the reigning World Champion slot into the timesheets just 0.050s behind Ducati\u2019s new kid on the block Lorenzo. Marquez\u2019 teammate Dani Pedrosa also led the timesheets for a window in the middle part of the day, doing 42 laps despite his ongoing recovery from a broken collarbone and registering a best of 1:31.306 \u2013 0.376 off Vi\u00f1ales\u2019 best as the \u2018Baby Samurai\u2019 closed out the top ten.<\/p>\n

There were a number of victims of Turn 10 on Day 1, including Movistar Yamaha\u2019s Valentino Rossi falling in the morning, as well as Red Bull KTM Factory racing\u2019s Pol Espargaro and Team Suzuki Ecstar\u2019s Andrea Iannone \u2013 with the latter walking more slowly away from the scene as he tested his back following a cracked vertebra sustained in FP1 at Misano in September; riders ok.<\/p>\n

Iannone impressed on his first day at Suzuki, fourth for much of the day before the crash and eventually ending up P7 on the timesheets, just behind fellow crasher Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda).<\/p>\n

Crutchlow, as well as riding his LCR Honda, got a taste of a full Repsol Honda machine with LCR livery \u2013 ending the session with a best of 1:31.156 after 69 laps over the day. He also suffered a crash at Turn 14 – the same place he crashed out of the 2016 season finale; rider ok.<\/p>\n

Compatriot Scott Redding (Octo Pramac Yakhnich) finished the day in P8 and three tenths off the pace, completing 71 laps, with teammate for the test, Michele Pirro, in P13 as he sits in for Danilo Petrucci – who has returned to Italy for family reasons and is missing the test.<\/p>\n

Hector Barbera and Loris Baz began Avintia Racing\u2019s 2017 with a solid performance, with Barbera in P9 and 0.020 ahead of Pedrosa – three tenths down on P1. The Spaniard was on the 2016 Ducati \u2013 the bike he raced in red when replacing Andrea Iannone for two races this season – with Baz a further second back in P15 as he looks to get back to full fitness after a tough season.<\/p>\n

\"web-jorge-lorenzo-accion-arriba-valencia-tests-martes-circuit-ricardo-tormo-motogp-fotos-paco-diaz\"<\/a>Aprilia Racing Team Gresini saw their new arrivals start to settle in. Aleix Espargaro ended the first day in fourteenth and 1.2s back from P1, after also proving a key member of the top ten for much of the first few hours of the session. Sam Lowes, who does have some previous experience of the Aprilia machine following in-season tests, began his MotoGP\u2122 career in earnest with a slightly more difficult day. He registered a 1:33.359 as his best lap over 63, then crashed out in the last minutes of the day – but walked away unscathed.<\/p>\n

Jack Miller (Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS) was P11 in an impressive return to the track and only half a second back from the front, with teammate Tito Rabat putting in the most laps \u2013 72 \u2013 and finishing up P18 on 1:32.578, a few tenths off his best from Q2 during the Valencia GP. Alvaro Bautista had a happy return to Aspar with the Pull&Bear sponsored team, closing out day one in P12 and seven tenths off P1 \u2013 the last man on the timesheets within a second of Vi\u00f1ales.<\/p>\n

Monster Yamaha Tech 3\u2019s new line-up, Moto2\u2122 graduates Jonas Folger and Johann Zarco, had a good first day on track as they gradually improved laptimes, down to around a second and a half off the fastest of the day by the end of their first taste of MotoGP\u2122 \u2013 and both incredibly split by only 0.015 in P16 and P17.<\/p>\n

\"web-valentino-rossi-valencia-tests-martes-circuit-ricardo-tormo-motogp-foto-pere-verdejo\"<\/a>With Iannone ending the day on a 1:31.165 in P6 on his first impressive showing for Suzuki, new teammate Alex Rins also had a good first day as the rookie chipped away at the laptime in his first experience of MotoGP\u2122. Completing 71 laps on his first day in the premier class, the white-liveried number 42 Suzuki got down into the 1:32s by 16:00, ending the day with a 1:32.811.<\/p>\n

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing duo Pol Espargaro and Bradley Smith debuted in their new colours in P19 and P20 respectively, with Espargaro one of the fallers at Turn 10 but ending the day two tenths quicker than his recovering teammate as the pair get to grips with the switch to KTM.<\/p>\n

Francesco \u2018Pecco\u2019 Bagnaia was another on track and completed the timesheets \u2013 getting a ride on the Aspar Ducati after winning a bet in the team that he could test the MotoGP\u2122 bike if he won two races in Moto3\u2122 this season with Pull&Bear Aspar Mahindra \u2013 duly taking the victory in Assen and then in Malaysia.<\/p>\n

Teams and riders will be back on track tomorrow at 10:00 (GMT +1) \u2013 with many eyes on Vi\u00f1ales and Lorenzo once again after an incredible first day of 2017 action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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