Donington, Great Britain, eight MotoGP round
Qualifying, Saturday June 21st 2008
 BEST
QUALIFYING SESSION OF THE SEASON FOR GUINTOLI.
ELIAS IN SIXTH ROW
Cold and rainy day at Donington Park circuit, in England.
The morning free practice has shown a great performance by
Sylvain Guintoli who under the rain has always demonstrated
great qualities. The afternoon session, that has determined
the starting grid of the 22nd English Grand Prix hosted on
this circuit, rain wasn’t so heavy making the track
faster. The French rider has made it to improve his best lap
times constantly finishing the session in twelfth position,
his best qualifying session of the season. His teammate, Toni
Elias, didn’t make it to find the right feeling to push
at the maximum in this weather condition and will have to
start in eighteenth position.
Fabiano Sterlacchini – Technical Director
“Congratulation to Sylvain who today has done really
good. I am sure that his race rhythm is much better than the
twelfth position conquered today and tomorrow, if the weather
will remain the same, he could have a really good race. Toni,
instead, didn’t have such a nice day. In the morning
things didn’t go so bad, but in the afternoon things
have gotten worst. We didn’t make it to find any solution
to allow him to result faster. We hope to be able to work
well during warm up to reduce the gap from the other riders.”
Sylvain Guintoli – Alice Team rider (12th best
lap time in 1'40.595 – Total laps 28)
“I felt like the bike was faster with the track full
of water. In the afternoon session the track has dried up
a little and I couldn’t be as fast as in the morning.
This has probably been the best day of the season so far,
with fifth and twelfth position in the two sessions. I thought
I would be able to enter the top ten in qualifying. I will
try to do it tomorrow in the race which is surely much more
important.”
Toni Elias – Alice Team rider (18th best lap
time in 1’42.933 – Total laps 25)
“Today nothing went well. Around the end of the morning
session it seems like things were getting better, but in the
afternoon with the different condition of the track our job
got even more complicated. I really don’t like the last
position. I hope I will be able to improve my self tomorrow
in the warm up to be more competitive for the race. It should
be a race with dry track and maybe this could help us a little.
Anyway, as usual, I will try to conquer as many points possible
for me and the Team.”
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