Pramac Ducati’s Loris Capirossi and Randy de Puniet will line up next to each other on the grid for tomorrow’s Australian MotoGP in 10th and 11th place respectively.

Capirossi was still striggling with his shoulder injury throughout the session, and Randy De Puniet suffered technical problems that forced him to use his second bike – despite this, both riders still managed to out-qualify Valentino Rossi on the factory Ducati who ended the session in 13th position

Marco Rigamonti – Randy De Puniet Track Engineer
“A pity as I am sure Randy could have conquered ad least the third row. We had some technical complication while starting bike number one and as there wasn’t much time left we decided to go for bike two. Randy didn’t have the same feeling and needed more time to adjust to the second bike, but anyway the results registered by him today and yesterday’s give us good hopes for tomorrow’s race.”

Loris Capirossi – 10th
“It was hard today as the shoulder gives me pain. Also at the end I had the time to try another fast lap but I choose to stay where I was, which is anyway a good place. The bike reacts well on this track even if in some part we must improve. The Team has also worked really and today I enjoyed again riding. It has been rare this year to have fun while riding, but I hope I will have some other chances before the end of the season.”

Randy De Puniet – 11th
“The plan was to push at the beginning in case it was going to rain during the practice. We did well and were fast straight away being up front in the first six positions for a while. The weather kept dry and when it was time to use the last two soft tires we found some problems starting bike number one, the one I was using. So we had to switch to bike two and the feeling wasn’t the same. We were quite unlucky as I am quite positive the third row was a sure thing. Hopefully we will get back the luck we miss out today during the race!”

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