Ben Spies secured his best qualifying position of the year by finishing only 0.009 seconds behind Marco Simoncelli.

Spies felt he was prevented from grabbing pole position due to the yellow flags that were brought out after Loris Capirossi suffered a crash.

Spies showed a solid and consistent pace lap after lap which bodes well for the race tomorrow and should see Spies aiming for a podium finish.

Ben Spies:
“The best qualifying of the year so far, it was a good session for us. We would have liked to get pole position but unfortunately on my fast lap Loris went down and there were a lot of yellow flags. I want to be a little bit upset but I want him to be ok a lot more than I wanted pole position. All in all it was a great qualifying, the bike is working really good, race pace is good so I’m confident for the race tomorrow. I don’t know what kind of weather we are going to get so we’ll see how it goes.”

Jorge Lorenzo:
“Today has been a complicated practice and qualifying. We made many stops in the morning session and in the qualifying. The most important thing is we can see that our closest championship rivals are pretty close but I know we still need to make a step forward to be better. I have had problems in the fast corners today, I didn’t have so much grip on the rear so we have work to do for tomorrow. I’m very confident the team will do a good job to be ready to fight for the podium for the 50th Anniversary. Obviously the weather is not helping and we should be ready for both wet and dry conditions.”

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