Marc Marquez tops post-race MotoGP test at Brno

The day after his dominant 2014 streak ended with a fourth-place finish in the Czech Grand Prix, Marquez was first out of the pitlane on his Honda and set the initial pace.

He produced his eventual benchmark of 1m55.411s in the final hour, when the track had dried after a heavy rain shower that convinced some teams to pack up.

Jorge Lorenzo spent much of the day in front between Marquez's quick laps, ending the test 0.155 seconds behind his countryman.

Both Honda and Yamaha tried various elements of their 2015 packages with their factory riders through the day.

Dani Pedrosa was third for Honda, just ahead of a Yamaha quartet - with Aleix Espargaro's Forward version leading works rider Valentino Rossi and Tech 3 duo Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaro.

Nine-time 500cc/MotoGP race winner Loris Capirossi made a brief comeback for the test.

Now working as the series' safety advisor, he accepted invitations to try Forward's Yamaha and FTR-framed bikes as well as the Cardion Honda, and was pleased to be within four seconds of the pace on his first MotoGP run in two years.

Another unusual face in action was American sometime Moto2 rider Kenny Noyes, who had an outing with Avintia.

Current Moto2 frontrunner Dominique Aegerter should have been testing with Forward, but after Alex de Angelis struggled in his first race back replacing Colin Edwards last weekend, the team decided to give the Italian more mileage instead.

Leon Camier continued with Aspar in Nicky Hayden's absence.

Camier, who was unhurt in an early crash, is waiting to hear for certain if he can stay on for Silverstone, amid rumours that Hayden needs more time to recover from wrist surgery.

Ducati only fielded Yonny Hernandez and Michele Pirro on Monday as its factory racers will instead be carrying out a private test at Misano later this month.

Pos Rider             Bike                      Time       Gap     Laps
 1. Marc Marquez      Honda                     1m55.411s           65             
 2. Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha                    1m55.566s  +0.155s  52             
 3. Dani Pedrosa      Honda                     1m56.014s  +0.603s  38            
 4. Aleix Espargaro   Forward Yamaha            1m56.173s  +0.762s  52            
 5. Valentino Rossi   Yamaha                    1m56.446s  +1.035s  63            
 6. Bradley Smith     Tech 3 Yamaha             1m56.451s  +1.040s  60            
 7. Pol Espargaro     Tech 3 Yamaha             1m56.502s  +1.091s  61            
 8. Stefan Bradl      LCR Honda                 1m56.519s  +1.108s  51            
 9. Alvaro Bautista   Gresini Honda             1m56.806s  +1.395s  66            
10. Yonny Hernandez   Pramac Ducati             1m56.988s  +1.577s  43            
11. Michele Pirro     Ducati                    1m57.375s  +1.964s  71            
12. Karel Abraham     Cardion Honda             1m57.659s  +2.248s  44            
13. Scott Redding     Gresini Honda             1m57.772s  +2.361s  56            
14. Leon Camier       Aspar Honda               1m58.179s  +2.768s  36            
15. Hiroshi Aoyama    Aspar Honda               1m58.327s  +2.916s  41            
16. Alex de Angelis   Forward Yamaha            1m58.759s  +3.348s  57            
17. Mike di Meglio    Avintia FTR-Kawasaki      1m59.662s  +4.251s  43            
18. Loris Capirossi                             2m00.649s  +5.238s   6            
19. Kenny Noyes       Avintia FTR-Kawasaki      2m03.442s  +8.031s  23