MotoReview

Kenny Roberts JNR

"We had a race strategy to try and so we needed a few long runs to try some stuff. The first session was wet and then the crash on the oil meant we had to use the number two bike. The time's not too good and a bit far from where we should be, but the race set-up is good enough for a top ten."

Casey Stoner

I'm a little disappointed because I was as fast on race tyres as I was on qualifiers. There wasn't a lot of track time so it was difficult to find a race set-up and to qualify in one session. I'm not a ‘one-lap wonder' and at the moment I find it hard to put in a hot lap on qualifiers. But we've got some new forks to try in warm-up tomorrow."

Makoto Tamada

"This result was not in my expectations, but now I have to try not to get down too much: the race will be tomorrow and so many other times I have been able to efficiently improve my position lap after lap."

Alex Hofmann

"I'm not very happy about how things went during the last two days. This afternoon, in the qualifying practice session, I entered with a set-up and tyres to test but after only one lap, I had the technical difficulty that caused the oil leak. I don't how I managed to avoid the crash and I'm really sorry for the other riders, I tried to make them sign to stop but they didn't see me. When the session started again, we had to use the bike n.2 and there were some difficulties with the gearbox; so we nearly lost the entire qualifying session. At the end of the practice, I went back on track but only could make one full lap and test only one tyre. I'm really disappointed about the result, we now have the warm-up left to prepare both motorcycles for the race and I hope everything will be alright."

Jose Luis Cardoso

"I'm not very satisfied about this practice. I didn't manage to make a lot of "clean" laps, there were some difficulties because of some test we had to make on the electronic and other particulars that limited my action. About the tyres, I can say that we're quite ok. The difficulties are on the rear and we still haven't decided yet which one we will use during the race: a choice that will be done tomorrow morning during the warm-up. In race, I hope to get some points, it won't be an easy thing but it would really be a huge satisfaction in front of my public".

We'll have more from all of the riders after tomorrow's race.