Stoner: No intention of racing in 2016

In the end, Barbera finished in third spot with a time of 2’00.387, less than two tenths of a second behind Danilo Petrucci, who was fastest today in Malaysia. This time would go unbeaten.

Baz, who celebrated his 23rd birthday on Monday, said that at the time of the incident he was travelling at around 290 kilometres per hour (180 miles per hour) along the Sepang circuit’s main straightaway.

“Today we focused mainly on tyre testing, seeing as Michelin they provided us with different compounds for the front”.

With riders searching for a fast time there were unfortunately several falls.

Lorenzo was one of many riders to crash at Turn 5, with Dani Pedrosa and Pol Espargaro also among those going down at the long left-hander – twice in Espargaro’s case. Despite the unknowns, Movistar Yamaha MotoGP’s Jorge Lorenzo continued where he left off in 2015 as he dominated the field. Fortunately the Spaniard escaped injury.

Last night, after the team’s regular technical debrief, it was decided that the Italian should continue with the development work, while Stoner will be back out on track again on one of the next three days of official testing, together with all the other protagonists of the 2016 MotoGP World Championship. It was a lacklustre 12th on Tuesday for Pedrosa, although he did improve on his Monday time. It was another Honda rider who rounded out the top five, Cal Crutchlow setting a 2’00.899 towards the end of the day on the harder option.

With the track temperature reaching 52 degrees Celsius, Lorenzo, chasing a fourth MotoGP world title, overcame the tough conditions to clock 2m00.684s, 1.033s quicker than his Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi, giving a strong start for Yamaha.

Petrucci was pleased with the day’s work. Andrea Iannone on another Ducati was fifth at 2m01.912s while Hector Barbera, also riding for Ducati, was sixth at 2m02.002s. Despite a short break when the session was red flagged due to a crash of Eugene Laverty, the nine-time World Champion was able to tick off most items listed on today’s testing schedule. The reigning world champion was.

A late charge from Bradley Smith saw the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 man pull himself into tenth, 0.314s clear of Maverick Viñales.

Andrea Dovizioso was down in 13th as he spent a majority of his day on the GP15, completing 40 laps.