Colin Edwards was all smiles after ending Friday’s practice third quickest in Valencia. With Jorge Lorenzo leading the way for the Yamaha works team, the Tech3 satellite bike wound up in third place and eight tenths of a second down.
“I'm really happy to have made such a good start,” he said. “I was only 11th this morning but knew my guys had a handle on how to improve the bike and this afternoon it just felt so easy.
“All the problems I've had all year with the bike not turning and running wide disappeared. I could get into the corner hard on the brakes, carry lots of lean angle, open the throttle and the bike would just turn like it should do.
“It's all too little too late but I didn't feel like I was out there taking a lot of risks and I was nearly six tenths faster this afternoon; every lap I did was between 33.4 and 33.6 and that's consistently over half a second faster than what I was able to do here last year.
“I kept the same hard tyre for the whole session and just switched it between the bikes and my best time was on the 20th lap, so I'm really happy with the tyre performance too and think I could be in for a really strong weekend to finish the season.”
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| Pos. | Driver | Team | Time | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  J. Lorenzo | Fiat Yamaha | 01:32.690 | 24 |
| 2. | C. Stoner | Ducati | 01:33.004 | 16 |
| 3. | C. Edwards | Tech 3 | 01:33.466 | 23 |
| 4. | M. Simoncelli | Gresini | 01:33.468 | 22 |
| 5. | A. Dovizioso | Repsol Honda | 01:33.470 | 22 |
| 6. | B. Spies | Tech 3 | 01:33.528 | 25 |
| 7. | R. de Puniet | Honda LCR | 01:33.535 | 21 |
| 8. | M. Melandri | Gresini | 01:33.568 | 24 |
| 9. | V. Rossi | Fiat Yamaha | 01:33.661 | 21 |
| 10. | N. Hayden | Ducati | 01:33.684 | 22 |
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