Injured Bautista shares bike with Sylvain Guintoli during test

After the Czech GP on Sunday the highly anticipated post-race test took place at Brno yesterday. It is the last official test for the MotoGP teams this season and with Suzuki currently struggling with their performance, they had a lot of new parts and configurations to test in order to try and catch up with the other manufacturers for the rest of the season.
Following his horrifying crash in Saturday morning’s free practice session, Alvaro didn’t ride his bike much during the test. Instead the team brought current World Superbike rider Sylvain Guintoli on board who shared the bike and the workload with Alvaro. Guintoli has extensive experience in the MotoGP championship and did his best to help the team get all the scheduled work done. Alvaro only rode 24 laps in the morning session – the least laps of all riders – and didn’t go out again for the afternoon session, to further recover from the back injuries he sustained.
The afternoon session was also cut short by rain, forcing all riders back into the pits and ending the day about three hours early. Not the best conditions for Suzuki to test everything they brought to Brno, including a new fairing which Loris Capirossi took out for testing.

Pedrosa and Simoncelli were the only crashers during the test, both walking away unhurt, and Randy De Puniet sat the day out to give his leg some rest and not having any new parts to test anyway.

The fastest laptime of the day:

Pos Rider Bike Time Diff
1 Jorge LORENZO YAMAHA 1’56.269
2 Casey STONER DUCATI 1’56.844 0.575
3 Dani PEDROSA HONDA TEST 1’56.944 0.675
4 Valentino ROSSI YAMAHA 1’57.129 0.860
5 Dani PEDROSA HONDA 1’57.424 1.155
6 Colin EDWARDS YAMAHA 1’57.512 1.243
7 Andrea DOVIZIOSO HONDA 1’57.691 1.422
8 Loris CAPIROSSI SUZUKI 1’57.700 1.431
9 Ben SPIES YAMAHA 1’57.753 1.484
10 Nicky HAYDEN DUCATI 1’57.991 1.722
11 Hector BARBERA DUCATI 1’58.017 1.748
12 Marco MELANDRI HONDA 1’58.070 1.801
13 Marco SIMONCELLI HONDA 1’58.160 1.891
14 Aleix ESPARGARO DUCATI 1’58.612 2.343
15 Hiroshi AOYAMA HONDA 1’58.830 2.561
16 Mika KALLIO DUCATI 1’58.926 2.657
17 Alvaro Bautista SUZUKI 1’59.454 3.185
18 Sylvain Guintoli SUZUKI 2’01.474 5.205