[Ducati] From Ducati Corse ****SPOILER**** Qatar Race One RESULTS

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Saturday Feb 24 2007 
Raceday  

LANZI'S PODIUM IN RACE 1 SAVES THE DAY FOR DUCATI XEROX TEAM IN QATAR 


Losail (Qatar), Saturday 24 February: It was a difficult start to the year  
for the Ducati Xerox Team at the Losail circuit in Qatar. In the opening round  
of the 2007 World Superbike Championship, Troy Bayliss and Lorenzo Lanzi 
could  only manage one podium between them in the two races as Max Biaggi 
(Suzuki),  making his Superbike debut, and James Toseland (Honda) took the first two 
wins  of the year. Lorenzo clinched the final podium place in race 1 with a 
superb  pass on Kagayama on the penultimate lap, and finished seventh in the 
second  race, while Troy took a fifth and seventh. 
"We knew that this weekend was going to be difficult for us but it turned out 
 to be tougher than expected" declared Troy. "All weekend I'd been doing 
quite  well on the race tyre so I was feeling quite confident, and was quite happy 
with  the way race 1 went. I could have done a lot better but I would have 
had to put  my life on the line so I settled for points. In the second race we 
thought we  couldn't do any worse and tried something different, we put the 
hardest tyre in  the front which we used last year and we made a change to the 
rear suspension.  The biggest problem we had was at the rear however because we 
had no feeling at  all. It's a long year ahead, it wasn't a good start but 
that's racing! For sure  I'll feel much more confident at Phillip Island, where 
the track is normally  pretty constant and I'm looking forward to that." 
"In race 1 I succeeded in scoring a great podium finish" commented Lorenzo.  
"It was a good, hard-fought result because in the last few laps I had a great  
battle with Kagayama. For race 2 we changed the suspension a bit and my 999  
worked a lot better. Unfortunately I got off to a bad start, which lost me a 
lot  of time in the early laps. I am sure I could have finished fourth quite 
easily  had the tyre not started to turn on the rim half-way through the race  
which  created some ‘chattering' problems. Now that the Qatar race is over,  we 
look forward immediately to Phillip Island, where we should go better." 
RACE 1: 1. Biaggi (Suzuki); 2. Toseland (Honda); 3. Lanzi (Ducati Xerox); 4.  
Kagayama (Suzuki); 5. Bayliss (Ducati Xerox); 6. Neukirchner (Suzuki); 7. 
Rolfo  (Honda); 8. Haga (Yamaha). RACE 2: 1. Toseland; 2. Biaggi; 3. Corser 
(Yamaha);  4. Haga; 5. Nieto (Kawasaki); 6. Kagayama; 7. Lanzi; 8. Bayliss. 
POINTS (after 1 of 13 rounds): 1. Toseland & Biaggi 45; 3. Lanzi 25; 4.  
Corser & Kagayama 23; 6. Haga 21; 7. Bayliss 19; 8. Neukirchner 16.  
Manufacturers: 1. Honda & Suzuki 45; 3. Ducati 25; 4. Yamaha 24; 5. Kawasaki  11. 
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