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On qualifying tyres, Gibernau's best time was a 2'01.03 and Capirossi's was a 2’01.08. With race tyres their times were 2'01.83 and 2'01.64. All of those times are good enough to be unofficial lap records, with the current record achieved by Capirossi when qualifying for last season's Sepang race standing at 2'01.731.

Sete Gibernau (73 laps)

"My settling-in period with the team, the bike and the tyres is continuing and I am increasingly satisfied with the choice that I have made. Today I felt pretty good on the GP6 and I also wanted to do a few laps on the GP5, which I have never tried, to make a back-to-back test. This confirmed what Loris, who knows the bike well, had said yesterday: the GP5 is a good bike but the GP6 has more development potential and from now onwards we are only going to use that bike. For the first time I used Bridgestone`s qualifying tyres and they gave me a good feeling. We`ve still got a lot of work to do to be at 100% but we are on the right path".

On the final day of the session, Loris Capirossi focussed on getting through an intense programme of tyre testing, accumulating information that will be useful for the next session scheduled for Sepang.

Loris Capirossi (76 laps)

"We can also be satisfied with today`s performance. The weather was good all day and we were able to do all the scheduled tyre testing. Bridgestone are working well and we have gathered a lot of useful information for the next test session here at Sepang. I also tried the new qualifying tyres, which have a good potential. I like the GP6 more and more and I can`t wait to test it in Australia, where last year I only did a few laps on the Friday morning before crashing, which forced me to miss the Australian and Turkish GPs".

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