In the second day at the Istanbul circuit, all the MotoGP riders was engaged in the qualifying session for the race. Both the Pramac d’Antin riders, weren’t able to achieve the hoped position on the grid, but tomorrow they’ll push at their maximum for a good result. Despite Istanbul Park being a new track for the Brazilian Barros, and riding in a poor physical condition, the rider is satisfied with his performance that was one second better than yesterday and is hopeful of riding up to his ability. For Alex Hofmann this day wasn’t very satisfaying, the German who obtained a good final time yesterday, wasn’t able to be very fast with the Bridgestone Qualifying tyres and doesn’t start in a good position tomorrow.
Alex Barros(1’54.775 with race tyres – 1’54.082 with qualifying tyres):
“Today my performance was certainly better than yesterday but not enough to be able to achieve good times. Unfortunately my physical condition wasn’t very good, I had bad flu and today too I am really straining to ride my bike; I’m always tired. Despite this, I can be satisfied with my team’s work; this time I’m guilty for my result because some times I made mistakes and I lost precious tenths. I feel good with race tyres, but with the qualifying one we need to lower times as far as we possibly can. In the morning, we work on bike’s setting, making a lot changes to the electronic calibration that gives us important results; I know I’m not in a very favourable position, at the same time I hope for a good race”.
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