FIM MotoGP World Championship Circuit of The America Austin, Texas April 20, 2013 Free Practice Three Results (all on Bridgestone tires): 1. Dani PEDROSA, Spain (HONDA), 2:04.408 2. Marc MARQUEZ, Spain (HONDA), 2:04.795, crash 3. Jorge LORENZO, Spain (YAMAHA), 2:05.295 4. Cal CRUTCHLOW, UK (YAMAHA), 2:05.630 5. Stefan BRADL, Germany (HONDA), 2:05.908 6. Andrea DOVIZIOSO, Italy (DUCATI), 2:05.963 7. Valentino ROSSI, Italy (YAMAHA), 2:06.173 8. Alvaro BAUTISTA, Spain (HONDA), 2:06.300 9. Nicky HAYDEN, USA (DUCATI), 2:06.622 10. Ben SPIES, USA (DUCATI), 2:06.862 11. Aleix ESPARGARO, Spain (ART-Aprilia), 2:07.149 12. Bradley SMITH, UK (YAMAHA), 2:07.714 13. Andrea IANNONE, Italy (DUCATI), 2:07.749 14. Randy DE PUNIET, France (ART-Aprilia), 2:08.405 15. Yonny HERNANDEZ, Colombia (ART-Aprilia), 2:08.514 16. Karel ABRAHAM, Czech Republic (ART-Aprilia), 2:09.249 17. Danilo PETRUCCI, Italy (Suter-BMW), 2:09.409 18. Hector BARBERA, Spain (FTR-Kawasaki), 2:09.504 19. Claudio CORTI, Italy (FTR-Kawasaki), 2:09.660 20. Hiroshi AOYAMA, Japan (FTR), 2:09.675 21. Colin EDWARDS, USA (FTR-Kawasaki), 2:09.698 22. Michael LAVERTY, UK (PBM-Aprilia), 2:10.109 23. Bryan STARING, Australia (FTR-Honda), 2:11.017 24. Blake YOUNG, USA (APR-Kawasaki), 2:11.528 Not qualified (Out 107%) 2:13.116 25. Lukas PESEK, Czech Republic (Suter-BMW), 2:13.510 26. Mike BARNES, USA (GPtech/BCL-Suzuki), 2:16.283 More, from a press release issued by Yamaha Factory MotoGP Team: Quotes from Yamaha Factory Racing Riders After Free Practice Nr. 3 at COTA (Austin, Texas – USA) Austin (Texas, USA), 20th April 2013 Jorge Lorenzo Position: 3rd; Best lap time: 2’05.295 “I’m very happy with the improvement of the bike we achieved this morning. This third free practice session was much better than yesterday but on the other side we have a little disadvantage to Dani. This morning we tried to improve the rear tyre grip: now I am feeling better on the bike but we are still missing something. Anyway, we are improving little by little and this is the positive thing. We still have to work before qualifying in order to reduce the gap as much as possible. Let’s see if we can make one more step to get a good position on the starting grid tomorrow. First row is the target”. Valentino Rossi Position: 7th; Best lap time: 2’06.173 “Our position after FP3 is not fantastic, although we were just focused on finding the right balance and setting for this afternoon’s qualifying session. We tried some different weight distributions and some different settings: some of them worked, some others didn’t, but it was an important work for this afternoon. Now we will try to put everything together and give our best at 2pm”.