Ducati MotoGP Team rider Casey Stoner will start tomorrow's
Portuguese Grand Prix from the front row of the grid after
qualifying a close second fastest this afternoon.
Stoner was in superb form, running an impressive pace on both
race tyres and qualifiers. The World Championship leader was
astonishing to watch as he danced over Estoril's bumps with his
Desmosedici GP7 to end qualifying just 0.040 seconds off pole
position. This is the Australian's sixth consecutive front-row
performance, following four successive poles.
"We are very happy with the way things have gone today and
over the weekend in general, so we're very confident. The team
has done a great job, we found a very good setting immediately
and we have a very good feeling with the bike, so I think
everything is looking good for the race. During today's two
sessions we put race distance on two race tyres and we were still
running some pretty good lap times and feeling quite comfortable
on old tyres, so it's been a very positive day in that way. This
track is pretty hard work for the tyres, so tyre degradation is
going to be a very important factor at the end of the race. I'm
quite happy with the set-up we've got, we just need to refine it a
bit tomorrow morning to improve the traction to understand how
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