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Monday, 23 January 2006 |
 2006 Camel Yamaha Today marks the unofficial opening of the 2006 season, with all of the teams bar WCM and Konica Minolta Honda in attendance at the Sepang circuit.
Rossi has started his year in the way he is accustomed and finished the day at the top of the timesheets, four tenths off the 2’01.731 overall lap record. Sepang Test Day 1 Times 1. Valentino Rossi ITA Camel Yamaha Team 2min 2.14 secs 2. Marco Melandri ITA Fortuna Honda 2min 2.21 secs 3. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team 2min 2.23 secs 4. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 2min 2.46 secs 5. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati Marlboro Team 2min 2.55 secs 6. Colin Edwards USA Camel Yamaha Team 2min 2.61 secs 7. Sete Gibernau SPA Ducati Marlboro Team 2min 2.77 secs 8. John Hopkins USA Team Suzuki MotoGP 2min 3.3 secs 9. Casey Stoner AUS LCR Honda 2min 3.57 secs 10. Shinya Nakano JPN Kawasaki Racing Team 2min 3.77 secs 11. Toni Elias SPA Fortuna Honda 2min 3.8 secs 12. Kenny Roberts USA Team Roberts 2min 3.8 secs 13. Randy de Puniet FRA Kawasaki Racing Team 2min 3.9 secs 14. Alex Hofmann GER d'Antin Ducati Pramac 2min 4.63 secs 15. James Ellison GBR Tech 3 Yamaha 2min 6.4 secs 16. Chris Vermulen AUS Team Suzuki MotoGP 2min 6.5 secs 17. Jose Luis Cardoso SPA d'Antin Ducati Pramac 2min 7.7 secs For pictures from the test, see our Sepang Test gallery. |