BAYLISS TAKES POLE FOR DUCATI XEROX AT SILVERSTONE WITH
LANZI ON THE FRONT ROW
Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) powered his way to a sixteenth
Superpole win with a blistering new circuit best lap of 1m24.558s
at an overcast Silverstone today. Slightly down on the first
two sectors, Troy then went green in the final split to edge
out Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha) from the top slot by a fraction.
Team-mate Lorenzo Lanzi has also been on the pace throughout
the weekend and he crowned a good qualifying performance with
the fourth quickest time of 1m24.810s which puts him on the
front row of the grid for tomorrow's two races.
"Actually it's been a little bit up and down for me
all weekend" declared Troy. "We've been going around
in circles a little bit, but now I'm back inside the circle
and I'm starting to feel more confident on the bike again.
I've been struggling really on the first split which is not
such a difficult section but we finally got it right this
afternoon. It's possibly going to rain tomorrow and that throws
a spanner in the works for everybody. Our bike is working
OK but we can only really use one race tyre, the hardest one,
and honestly the grip's down on that. If anyone can get away
with using the softer one it's going to make it difficult
for us but I honestly think that after 15 laps anyone who
chooses that tyre is going to be going backwards pretty quick."
"I'm really pleased with my performance today, here
it's very important to start from the front row because there
aren't many places to overtake on this circuit and it'll probably
rain tomorrow which will create some more problems for everyone"
said Lorenzo. "Over the past two days we've prepared
well for the race in dry conditions, but haven't had much
chance to try a wet weather setting. For the moment let me
enjoy this front row position, which for me is very important.
I felt that I went through that chicane in the second sector
in a truly spectacular way, the feeling with the bike was
perfect and I'm feeling confident about the races tomorrow".
Starting-Grid: 1. Bayliss (Ducati Xerox)
1m24.558s; 2. Haga (Yamaha) 1m24.577s; 3. Toseland (Honda)
1m24.621s; 4. Lanzi (Ducati Xerox) 1m24.810s; 5. Corser (Yamaha)
1m25.164s; 6. Xaus (Ducati) 1m25.299s; 7. Kagayama (Suzuki)
1m25.597s; 8. Biaggi (Suzuki) 1m25.866s; 9. Muggeridge (Honda)
1m25.886s; 10. Brookes (Honda) 1m26.116s.
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