Valentino Rossi and Davide Brivio comments on Qualifying Result at Jerez 2008

Valentino Rossi;
Position: 5th Time: 1'39.064 Laps: 25
"Our target today was the front row and I think we could have done a 1'38 and maybe been second, but unfortunately I had an electronic problem on my last qualifying lap and I had to stop, which was unlucky. This is a pity and of course it would be better to be on the front, but anyway we're not far away, the second row is not so bad and I think we can be competitive tomorrow. Our race pace is okay, I think with some small adjustments we can improve a bit more but we're close. Congratulations to Lorenzo, I don't know if we can be quite as fast as him on race tyres and he will be hard to beat tomorrow, but let's see! We still haven't decided on our final race tyre, we have to wait and see how the temperature is tomorrow, but it's going to be a very exciting race and we're all looking f orward to it!"

Davide Brivio;
Team Manager
"It was a pity that Valentino couldn't finish his final quali! fying lap today but unfortunately he had a small electronic issue, which we're now looking into to work out exactly what happened so that we can avoid it in future. The good news is that, apart from this lap, we were fast with the qualifying tyre as well as on race tyres and so this bodes well for the rest of the season's races. We still have to finalise our tyre choice for the race and make a few final adjustments, so we will be using the warm-up for this. Congratulations to Jorge and his team because he was very fast, I don't know if we have quite the same pace as him but anyway I think that we can fight at the front."