Comments (0) 1. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team 1’49.870
2. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team 1’50.065
3. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 1’50.144
4. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 1’50.808
5. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1’50.891
6. Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini 1’50.898
7. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1’51.007
8. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP 1’51.030
Nicky Hayden had high hopes of a strong race following a promising performance in morning warm-up but the American ran into difficulties and came home an unlucky 13th. After Mugello the MotoGP action switches to Spain for the following weekend’s Catalan GP outside Barcelona. This is MotoGP’s busiest period with six races over eight weekends.
Nicky Hayden:
“This morning we made a nice step, we made a suspension adjustment and the bike felt a lot better, so we had a pretty good pace. We were certainly unlucky in the race. I got an awesome start, felt pretty good, but it was clear from the beginning that we had a problem.
Guys started coming past and there was nothing I could do, there was no way to defend. So I just tried to get to the finish and get a couple of points. They’re checking the data now to see exactly what happened.
Like I said, we were quite unlucky, I knew we didn’t have Rossi’s pace this morning, but we had enough pace to be in there, to be quite competitive. I don’t know yet which engine I’ll be using next weekend. To be honest, I’ve been concentrating on this race, so I haven’t thought about it yet.”
1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team (B) 25 points
2. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 20 points
3. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (M) 16 points
4. Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) 13 points
5. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 11 points
6. James Toseland GBR Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 10 points
7. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 9 points
8. Andrea Dovizioso ITA JiR Team Scot MotoGP (M) 8 points
Nicky Hayden went well today with sixth best time in qualifying, only half a second off pole. After yesterday’s rain-lashed first day of practice there was further rainfall this morning, so qualifying was the first fully dry session of the weekend. Race tyre selection will thus be a more than usually complicated affair, with Repsol Honda engineers working closely with Michelin technicians to choose the best tyres for tomorrow’s race. Despite the lack of dry-track time the pace was red hot, with pole position eight tenths faster than the previous best Mugello pole, set by a 990cc MotoGP bike in 2006.
Nicky Hayden, 6th fastest, 1m 48.666s
“We’ve basically only had one completely dry session all weekend – so we’ve tried out a lot of tyres: rains, intermediates and qualifiers and just a couple of race tyres. So that’s certainly a big issue for tomorrow, we don’t know a lot about what race tyres to run, so we’ll definitely let Michelin help us a little there. We made a bit of progress this afternoon and ended up on the second row. I’m not going to fool myself though, it’s certainly going to be a hard one tomorrow, some guys going really quick. It’d be nice to improve in warm-up, we’ve got some work to do to try and get closer to the front. Then we’ll just try to get a start and go for it.”
1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team (B) 1’48.130
2. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (M) 1’48.297
3. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 1’48.313
4. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 1’48.375
5. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 1’48.383
6. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team (M) 1’48.666
7. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team (M) 1’48.905
8. James Toseland GBR Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 1’49.025
