MotoGP Jerez Qualifying spoiler

Who was second?

 

1. Rossi
2. Gibernau
3. Melandri
4. Hayden
5. Nakano
6. Capirossi
7. Tamada
8. Barros
9. Bayliss
10. Hofmann
11. Hopkins
12. Checa
13. Elias
14. Roberts
15. Edwards
16. Biaggi
17. Xaus
18. Rolfo

 

MotoGP: Jerez Qualifying Times
Rossi on fire, pole by half a second
by toby hirst
Saturday, April 09, 2005
www.superbikeplanet.com
Pos.
Rider
Teacom/2005/Apr/tb/050409y.htm
Time

1
Valentino Rossi
Gauloises Yamaha Team
Yamaha YZR-M1
1:39.419

2
Sete Gibernau
Team Movistar Honda
Honda RC211V
1:39.915

3
Marco Melandri
Team Movistar Honda
Honda RC211V
1:40.179

4
Nicky Hayden
Repsol Honda Team
Honda RC211V
1:40.465

5
Shinya Nakano
Kawasaki Racing Team
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR
1:40.542

6
Loris Capirossi
Ducati Marlboro Team
Ducati Desmosedici GP-5
1:40.648

7
Makoto Tamada
JIR Konica Minolta Honda
Honda RC211V
1:40.707

8
Alex Barros
Camel Honda
Honda RC211V
1:40.720

9
Troy Bayliss
Camel Honda
Honda RC211V
1:40.774

10
Alex Hofmann
Kawasaki Racing Team
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR
1:40.812

11
John Hopkins
Team Suzuki MotoGP
Suzuki GSV-R
1:40.825

12
Carlos Checa
Ducati Marlboro Team
Ducati Desmosedici GP-5
1:40.948

13
Toni Elias
Fortuna Yamaha Team
Yamaha YZR- M1
1:41.029

14
Kenny Roberts Jnr.
Team Suzuki MotoGP
Suzuki GSV-R
1:41.058

15
Colin Edwards
Gauloises Yamaha Team
Yamaha YZR-M1
1:41.176

16
Max Biaggi
Repsol Honda Team
Honda RC211V
1:41.233

17
Ruben Xaus
Fortuna Yamaha Team
Yamaha YZR-M1
1:42.286

18
Roberto Rolfo
D'antin Ducati
Ducati Desmosedici GP-4
1:43.523

19
Franco Battaini
Blata WCM
Blata
1:44.576

20
Shane Byrne
Team Roberts/KTM
Proton/KTM
1:44.728

 

Huge thumbs up to Shinya Nakano. As far as Hopkins goes, even I'm surprised he was that far down the list. Rossi credited his tires for his qualifying domination. I believe Hopkin's tires may be at fault for his slower time. He has been working on qualifying setup quite a bit and I think that was because his qualifying tires aren't the best. The only sure thing about tomorrow is that I will be watching the race!

 

Stephens,
thanks for the updates...

 

Any one who enjoys watching good, hard racing shouls make the switch to motogp. what a race, the last couple of laps were breath taking. Valentino was stalking gibernaeu for the whole race, he waited until the secont last lap to make his move, in the middle of the last lap he out braked himself, recovered and was dicing with giberaeu until the last corner which he took the lead, gibernaeu went on the grass, and rossi done a wheelie of the whole main street. he had about 120,000 spanish booing him, but he showed them who is the best...

 

I watched the race last night - talk about final lap climaxes!

...wonder if there will be a pilot's meeting next week to vote against Rossi's overtake

 

I must say that I thought Rossi made a mistake on the final corner and it is unfortunate that he took off Gibernau. Rossi is usually such a class character, but I think he owes Gibernau an apology. It looks like it's going to be a really close battle if Rossi has to resort to these desperate tactics to win the races. Looking forward to Portugal!!

 

don't agree. as he said, that's racing. it's what F1 used to be like 15 years until the marketing men started to run it. i'm glad gibernau did'nt appeal. he's being a man about it and probably realised that he left too much room. afterall if he'd held a tighter line rossi would not have been able to get where he got to. good for rossi, spectacular racing move.

 

Hmmm. I'm a great defender of 'robust racing techniques' but I think Rossi went too far on that corner. I don't think Rossi would have made the corner himself if he didn't have Gibernau to bounce off! Totally agree with you that Gibernau is being a true gent about the whole incident. I assume he is saving his anger for the next race rather than a press conference!