Sepang MotoGP test: Jorge Lorenzo deposes Dani Pedrosa on day two

Pedrosa had been fastest on the opening day and also took a clean sweep in the first test at the Malaysian circuit earlier in the month.

Lorenzo ended that run on Wednesday with a 2m00.282s, his fastest lap so far at Sepang and also more than three tenths of a second faster than Pedrosa could manage on the day.

For the first time this winter the top three was completed by a satellite bike as Cal Crutchlow shrugged off a lack of updates to put Tech 3 third.

Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi, on the second Honda and Yamaha respectively, both got within 15 thousandths of a second of Crutchlow.

Rossi's deficit of 0.783 seconds to Lorenzo was however the largest it has been over winter testing.

Alvaro Bautista was the last man to get within one second of Lorenzo, helping him to edge out fellow Honda satellite rider Stefan Bradl and the two works Ducatis of Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso.

In a reverse of the day one order Pramac rider Andrea Iannone this time managed to edge out top CRT man Aleix Espargaro, although the Spaniard and Avintia rider Hector Barbera both had the better of Iannone's team-mate Ben Spies.

The American, returning from a long injury lay-off, suffered an early fall at Turn 1 but emerged unhurt.

Michael Laverty meanwhile turned his first laps on the new Paul Bird chassis, managing three installation laps in the morning and a further 16 in the afternoon.

Pos  Rider               Team/Bike             Time       Gap
 1.  Jorge Lorenzo       Yamaha                2m00.282s
 2.  Dani Pedrosa        Honda                 2m00.651s  + 0.369s
 3.  Cal Crutchlow       Tech 3 Yamaha         2m00.907s  + 0.625s
 4.  Marc Marquez        Honda                 2m00.992s  + 0.710s
 5.  Valentino Rossi     Yamaha                2m01.065s  + 0.783s
 6.  Alvaro Bautista     Gresini Honda         2m01.208s  + 0.926s
 7.  Stefan Bradl        LCR Honda             2m01.485s  + 1.203s
 8.  Nicky Hayden        Ducati                2m01.778s  + 1.496s
 9.  Andrea Dovizioso    Ducati                2m01.803s  + 1.521s
10.  Bradley Smith       Tech 3 Yamaha         2m02.023s  + 1.741s
11.  Andrea Iannone      Pramac Ducati         2m02.608s  + 2.326s
12.  Aleix Espargaro     Aspar Aprilia         2m02.905s  + 2.623s
13.  Michele Pirro       Ducati                2m02.920s  + 2.638s
14.  Katsuyuki Nakasuga  Yamaha                2m02.946s  + 2.664s
15.  Wataru Yoshikawa    Yamaha                2m03.354s  + 3.072s
16.  Hector Barbera      Avintia FTR-Kawasaki  2m03.428s  + 3.146s
17.  Ben Spies           Pramac Ducati         2m03.460s  + 3.178s
18.  Randy de Puniet     Aspar Aprilia         2m03.518s  + 3.236s
19.  Hiroshi Aoyama      Avintia FTR-Kawasaki  2m03.990s  + 3.708s
20.  Danilo Petrucci     Ioda Suter-BMW        2m04.279s  + 3.997s
21.  Karel Abraham       Cardion Aprilia       2m04.350s  + 4.068s
22.  Takumi Takahashi    Honda                 2m04.512s  + 4.230s
23.  Colin Edwards       Forward FTR-Kawasaki  2m04.656s  + 4.374s
24.  Yonny Hernandez     PBM Aprilia           2m04.671s  + 4.389s
25.  Claudio Corti       Forward FTR-Kawasaki  2m04.709s  + 4.427s
26.  Bryan Staring       Gresini FTR-Honda     2m05.439s  + 5.157s
27.  Lukas Pesek         Ioda Suter-BMW        2m06.206s  + 5.924s
28.  Michael Laverty     PBM-Aprilia           2m07.721s  + 7.439s