Rossi fastest at Estoril

Valentino Rossi has gone fastest in the first free practice session for the Estoril round of the MotoGP championship.

Loris Capirossi is second faster, followed by John Hopkins and Nicky Hayden. Garry McCoy has put the Ilmor 19th fastest on its’ debut, ahead of Britain’s James Ellison, and just behind Jose Luis Cardoso.

Estoril MotoGP first practice:

Valentino ROSSI 1’39.398

Loris CAPIROSSI 1’39.637

John HOPKINS 1’39.654

Nicky HAYDEN 1’39.798

Casey STONER 1’40.099

Dani PEDROSA 1’40.240

Colin EDWARDS 1’40.261

Carlos CHECA 1’40.379

Toni ELIAS 1’40.404

Marco MELANDRI 1’40.504

Randy DE PUNIET 1’40.657

Shinya NAKANO 1’40.759

Sete GIBERNAU 1’40.824

Makoto TAMADA 1’41.005

Kenny ROBERTS JR 1’41.336

Chris VERMEULEN 1’41.808

Alex HOFMANN 1’42.729

Jose Luis CARDOSO 1’43.264

Garry McCOY 1’43.424

James ELLISON 1’44.434

250cc free practice:

Hector BARBERA 1’43.496

Roberto LOCATELLI 1’43.970

Jorge LORENZO 1’44.032

Alex DE ANGELIS 1’44.073

Marco SIMONCELLI 1’44.203

Hiroshi AOYAMA 1’44.236

Andrea DOVIZIOSO 1’44.540

Jakub SMRZ 1’44.558

Yuki TAKAHASHI 1’44.697

Shuhei AOYAMA 1’44.818

Anthony WEST 1’44.833

David DE GEA 1’44.911

Alex BALDOLINI 1’45.010

Manuel POGGIALI 1’45.246

Aleix ESPARGARO 1’45.272

Sylvain GUINTOLI 1’45.319

Andrea BALLERINI 1’45.833

Arturo TIZON 1’45.928

Jordi CARCHANO 1’46.047

Dirk HEIDOLF 1’46.168

Fabricio PERREN 1’47.194

Taro SEKIGUCHI 1’47.409

Luca MORELLI 1’47.599

Alessandro BRANNETTI 1’48.039

Jules CLUZEL 1’48.324

Dan LINFOOT 1’49.421

Luke LAWRENCE 1’50.777

Joao FERNANDES 1’51.811

Alessio PALUMBO 1’52.059

125cc first practice:

Alvaro BAUTISTA 1’49.450

Julian SIMON 1’49.512

Mattia PASINI 1’49.559

Mika KALLIO 1’49.759

Lukas PESEK 1’50.074

Hector FAUBEL 1’50.337

Mike DI MEGLIO 1’50.366

Imre TOTH 1’50.382

Nicolas TEROL 1’50.512

Sergio GADEA 1’50.613

Joan OLIVE 1’50.637

Gabor TALMACSI 1’50.720

Esteve RABAT 1’50.743

Federico SANDI 1’50.833

Tomoyoshi KOYAMA 1’50.914

Lorenzo ZANETTI 1’51.316

Simone CORSI 1’51.412

Michael RANSEDER 1’51.433

Raffaele DE ROSA 1’51.443

Bradley SMITH 1’51.482

Karel ABRAHAM 1’51.640

Thomas LUTHI 1’51.737

Georg FROEHLICH 1’51.825

Mateo TUNEZ 1’51.906

Roberto TAMBURINI 1’52.180

Pablo NIETO 1’52.236

Sandro CORTESE 1’52.249

Dominique AEGERTER 1’52.377

Fabrizio LAI 1’52.790

Manuel HERNANDEZ 1’52.962

Kazuma WATANABE 1’53.270

Joey LITJENS 1’53.587

Randy KRUMMENACHER 1’54.109

Michele CONTI 1’54.178

Dino LOMBARDI 1’54.329

Pol ESPARGARO 1’54.334

Hiroaki KUZUHARA 1’54.452

Roberto LACALENDOLA 1’55.001

Michal SEMBERA 1’55.312

Blake LEIGH-SMITH 1’55.519

Kazuya OTANI 1’55.593

Simone GROTZKYJ 2’02.978