Randy De Puniet and Loris Capirossi will line up next to each other on the grid for tomorrow’s Malaysian MotoGP after qualifying 11th and 12th respectively.

This will be the penultimate race in Pramac Ducati colours for both riders as it was confirmed today that Hector Barbera will join the team in 2012. Barbera has passed up on a CRT option for 2012 and will be the sole rider in a one bike Pramac Ducati team.

Randy De Puniet is stongly suspected to be signing a contract that will bring him back to the LCR Honda team for 2012.

Here is what De Puniet and Capirossi made of the swealtering hot qualifying session at Sepang:

Randy De Puniet – 11th
“I am a little disappointed because I was faster yesterday and today, despite several changes, we could not keep the same level. Compared to winter testing we are not too far away from the other riders and this is a good sign, but tomorrow will still be a complicated race. With the back of the bike I am quite comfortable, though now we will investigate further tomorrow something to help me during tomorrow’s race. It will be tough, it’s hot, but we need another good result and we will give it all.”

Loris Capirossi – 12th
“I am not happy today because we could be at least in the top ten. We tried a new solution because the track had deteriorated, but it did not go as hoped. So during the last attempt at the end we returned to this morning set-up and we were able to improve. Tomorrow we can have a good race because the race pace is good. Then everything will of course depend on the weather!”

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