Comments (0) 1. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati 25 points
2. Marco Melandri ITA Honda 20 points
3. Dani Pedrosa SPA Honda 16 points
4. Randy De Puniet FRA Kawasaki 13 points
5. Valentino Rossi ITA Yamaha 11 points
6. Toni Elias SPA Honda 10 points
7. Chris Vermeulen AUS Suzuki 9 points
8. John Hopkins USA Suzuki 8 points
“This morning in the cooler temperatures I was able to go a lot faster than this afternoon so we definitely need to come up with some adjustments to improve our speed in the hot conditions.
Sixth on the grid is ok, although it hasn’t exactly been the best day for us. My qualifying lap wasn’t perfect and, like at Phillip Island last week, in the last sector of the lap the tyre went a little bit soft. Nonetheless, I was able to move up the field on qualifiers and getting on the second row here is ok. The main thing we have to decide is which race tyre to run with because the track changed so much this afternoon when the temperature came up.
The surface was really hot and greasy, it was quite difficult for me to find enough grip and my rhythm was not so good. We got a decent qualifying position to give ourselves a chance – now we’ve got to improve the settings in race trim. It’s going to be really important to get a good start tomorrow and latch onto the front guys.”
1. Dani Pedrosa SPA Honda 2?01.877
2. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati 2?01.918
3. Marco Melandri ITA Honda 2?01.944
4. Randy de Puniet FRA Kawasaki 2?02.107
5. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki 2?02.202
6. Nicky Hayden USA Honda 2?02.225
7. Chris Vermeulen AUS Suzuki 2?02.301
8. Toni Elias SPA Honda 2?02.432
1. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati 2?02.291
2. Randy de Puniet FRA Kawasaki 2?02.534
3. John Hopkins USA Suzuki 2?02.557
4. Nicky Hayden USA Honda 2?02.589
5. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki 2?02.627
6. Toni Elias SPA Honda 2?02.697
7. Valentino Rossi ITA Yamaha 2?02.838
8. Marco Melandri ITA Honda 2?03.021
“This morning wasn’t bad at all and we got on the pace straight away. This afternoon wasn’t that stellar though. I probably wasted too much time on full wets and intermediates. In those conditions, especially on intermediates, is where I need to step up my game because we could get these conditions really easily on Sunday.
Once we got going we improved our speed from this morning but we’re quite a way from where we need to be. Parts of the track feel ok but we’ve got to find something more with the tyres if we want to be competitive, otherwise we could be in a little bit of trouble. Maybe the track will clean up and start being kinder on the tyres.
It’s quite strange coming here with a completely new surface because we’ve done so many practice laps on the old surface and we were very familiar with it. The surface was quite dirty and slippery this morning to start with. It’s definitely getting a bit better so it would be nice to get some more dry weather tomorrow, put down some rubber and move things forward.”
MotoGP 2007 Season
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