BAYLISS SECOND AND FABRIZIO FIFTH ON TOMORROW'S START LINE
AT NUERBURGRING
 Troy
Bayliss and Michel Fabrizio (Ducati Xerox) both had a very
positive day today at the Nuerburgring despite very changeable
weather conditions. After having qualified fastest for Superpole,
Bayliss hoped to be able to take the pole position but in
the end an extremely fast lap from Neukirchner - in front
of his home crowd - meant that the Australian had to be satisfied
with a second place start for tomorrow's races. Meanwhile
Fabrizio improved on his best lap time during Superpole and
will line up in fifth place on the grid, having lost out on
a front row start by just a fraction of a second. Only the
fastest three riders - Neukirchner, Bayliss and Checa - managed
to lap today in under 1m56.
Troy Bayliss 1m55.7s
"The practices have all been going well. In Superpole
I thought I could beat Carlos', albeit very fast, time but
I didn't realise during my lap that Max had already gone faster
than Carlos - I forgot to look at my lap board when I went
out so when I came down the straight I thought I'd got it
but then I saw that Max had already gone faster and so I was
second... Not that I could have gone any faster even if I'd
known, so well done to Max - taking the pole in front of your
home crowd is a very special thing. But tomorrow will be difficult
and we'll see how it turns out tomorrow."
Michel Fabrizio 1m56.4s
"I'm very satisfied with the lap I made during Superpole,
even though I am a little disappointed by the fact that I
missed out on fourth place by just three-hundredths of a second
but anyway, we are happy with the result. We worked hard today
and I was able to improve on the eighth position that I held
before the start of Superpole so much as to be able to start
from fifth place on the grid tomorrow. I hope to get two better
starts than I did in the last round at Miller and I also hope
that the weather is fine tomorrow as we have done very little
preparation if it were to be wet."
TIMES (Superpole): 1. Neukirchner (Suzuki)
1'55.4; 2. Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) 1'55.7; 3. Checa (Honda)
1'55.8; 4. Haga (Yamaha) 1'56.4; 5. Fabrizio (Ducati Xerox)
1'56.4; 6. Corser (Yamaha) 1'56.5
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