Comments (0) 1. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team 47′52.678
2. Marco Melandri ITA Hayate Racing Team 48′10.388
3. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 48′12.571
4. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team 48′13.133
5. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 48′23.217
6. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 48′30.140
7. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 48′32.869
8. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 48′38.099
1. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 1′33.974
2. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team 1′33.979
3. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 1′34.049
4. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team 1′34.106
5. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team 1′34.300
6. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1′34.330
7. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1′34.676
8. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1′34.839
1. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team 1′36.136
2. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 1′36.194
3. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP 1′36.293
4. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1′36.301
5. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 1′36.476
6. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team 1′36.751
7. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team 1′37.024
8. Marco Melandri ITA Hayate Racing Team 1′37.024
“Le Mans couldn’t get here soon enough after Jerez because I just want to get back on the bike and get back amongst the team trying to sort out our problems. The French track should be a little bit better for me, the bike is certainly stable under hard braking, acceleration is good and it’s good in a straight line and Le Mans has a lot of that. Having a bit more time in practice and qualifying is going to help everybody and maybe it can help me more than the rest.
Also for Le Mans, we have a bit of new electronic management and team structure that I think should help me and all the Ducati riders. I believe that with Cristhian more freed up from some of the normal work as crew chief he can use his expertise more and focus on really working on the issues I am having with the bike and help give us a better direction and give more info to the factory. So to fill his spot we will bring in Juan (Martnez), who has put up some solid results in MotoGP. He has already worked in Ducati and speaks good English and Italian so he was a good match.
Repsol Honda rider Nicky Hayden finished eighth in today’s rain-affected French GP at Le Mans. The Kentucky Kid’s off-track excursion at the Garage Vert corner dropped him to tenth on lap 14, the American gaining two places as rivals hit problems.
The Repsol Honda Team will test here tomorrow, focusing on chassis settings and tyre testing with Michelin. Hayden will then travel back to the US where next weekend he will ride a demo lap aboard a 2007 RC212V before the start of the huge Indy 500 car race to promote September’s inaugural Indianapolis MotoGP event.
Nicky Hayden
“That wasn’t too pretty. All weekend we’ve been missing something, the pace hasn’t been there. I got a good start and recovered a couple of positions but couldn’t go with the group I needed to go with. I was hanging in there, then I ran off the track in turn six, got in just a little bit hot, didn’t make it and that lost me three positions. I came back on, had a little dice with Loris over the last few laps but it wasn’t the result we wanted.
