SECOND ROW START FOR DUCATI XEROX TEAM RIDERS IN QATAR
 The
first Superpole session of the 2007 World Superbike championship
was a tough one for the Ducati Xerox Team at the Losail circuit
in Qatar with riders Lorenzo Lanzi and Troy Bayliss posting
fifth and sixth quickest times in the one-lap dash.
"Well, that was something different!" declared
Troy about his Superpole. "I think everyone will be happy
to see that but not us! We haven't been at our best all weekend
actually. It's really strange because the last test I did
here I did a 58.1 and now the best I've done all weekend has
been a 59.5 with exactly the same setting from last time.
We're just having some difficulty in getting comfortable on
the bike, my Superpole lap didn't feel good and it just didn't
happen. That's it really, now we put it behind us and hopefully
we can do a good race tomorrow. We knew it was going to be
a hard weekend but it's just looking a bit harder than normal.
Honestly my long run is the only good thing I've done this
weekend, 10 laps in 1m59s, so that's a good sign and I'm feeling
pretty confident that I will be OK in the second part of the
race."
"I really hoped to get on the front row of the grid
because all weekend I've always been in the top 4 and it was
important for the start" declared Lorenzo. "Now
Troy and I are both on the second row, we have to hope for
a good start and do the first few laps well. We're pretty
clear on the choice of tyres, we'll just have to see how they
work tomorrow and what sort of weather conditions there are
because the cooler it is the better it is for us. The bike
set-up feels OK for the race, unfortunately I made an error
in my Superpole lap at the final corner and lost those vital
tenths of a second that would have put me on the front row
of the grid."
TIMES: 1. Corser (Yamaha) 1m58.402s; 2.
Biaggi (Suzuki) 1m58.724s; 3. Toseland (Honda) 1m59.005s;
4. Haga (Yamaha) 1m59.294s; 5. Lanzi (Ducati Xerox) 1m59.537s;
6. Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) 1m59.668s; 7. Kagayama (Suzuki)
1m59.964s; 8. Neukirchner (Suzuki) 2m00.098s; 9. Nieto (Kawasaki)
2m00.240s; 10. Rolfo (Honda) 2m00.414s.
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