[Ducati] Qatar Superpole RESULTS ***********SPOILER****************

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>From Ducati Corse:
 
Friday Feb 23 2007 
Superpole  

SECOND ROW START FOR DUCATI XEROX TEAM RIDERS IN QATAR 


Losail (Qatar), Friday 23 February: 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. 
TV COVERAGE: British Eurosport (UK): Friday 23 February, 1745 Superpole (as  
live); Saturday 24 February 0815 race 1 + race 2 (live). Eurosport (Pan  
European): Saturday 24 February, 1400 race 2 (as live); Eurosport 2  
(Pan-European): Sunday 25 February, 1100 race 1 + race 2 (delayed); La7 (Italy):  Saturday 
24 February, 0930 race 1 (live), 1320 race 2 (live). 
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