2ND AND 4TH ROW FOR DUCATI MARLBORO TEAM IN CHINESE GP
Saturday May 13 2006
Qualifying - Shanghai
Ducati Marlboro Team riders Sete Gibernau and Loris Capirossi were sixth and tenth fastest in this afternoon's rain-interrupted qualifying session for tomorrow's Chinese Grand Prix.
A rain shower dampened the track in parts halfway through the session, robbing teams of valuable dry-track time. Riders were able to return to the rapidly drying track for the final few minutes, but since both yesterday's sessions were run in heavy rain, this morning's hour-long outing has been the only fully dry session of a weather-blighted weekend, leaving riders and teams with precious little set-up time for what is expected to be a dry race.
Gibernau and Capirossi made the best of this afternoon's tricky session, continuing work on race set-up before switching to qualifiers in the final minutes, but neither rider was able to extract the full performance from their Desmosedici GP6s in the time available. Gibernau had led the early stages of the session and looked capable of taking pole position, but the Spaniard was unable to maintain that pace to the flag and ended 6th. Italian team-mate Capirossi will start from 10th position. Weather for tomorrow is unpredictable but Ducati Marlboro Team riders are going to exploit every single minute of the warm-up in order to make the last adjustments for the race.
SETE GIBERNAU, 6th fastest, 1m 59.639s
"That was a bit of a strange session. Everything seems to be working well enough from a race point of view, but we still have to work some more with Bridgestone to find the right race tyre choice. The first part of the session went okay but later on I was struggling to get a lap time with the qualifiers because I could do the first part of the lap not so bad, but after that the tyre wasn't giving me the grip I needed for a qualifying lap. It's up to us and Bridgestone to find the right solution for the race, because when the tyres are okay we know we can go well, but we don't what to end up in the same situation we were in at Istanbul. We have one more rear to try in tomorrow morning's warm-up session, one more choice that might help us for the race."
LORIS CAPIROSSI, 10th fastest, 2m 00.078s
"Sete and I have been using the same rear race tyre, but we need a bit more endurance for the race. I have been using a front tyre that's a bit harder than Sete's but it's okay for the race, while Sete's is softer but maybe doesn't have the endurance. This afternoon's rain didn't help us because we couldn't test everything we wanted to test. At the end of the session I didn't have full confidence in the front, so I couldn't fully exploit my qualifying tyres. We did our best today and we will need to make the most of warm-up to test more tyres, making sure we don't take any big gambles for the race."
Temperatures: Ambient: 19 degrees. Track: 21 degrees
Qualifying - Shanghai
Ducati Marlboro Team riders Sete Gibernau and Loris Capirossi were sixth and tenth fastest in this afternoon's rain-interrupted qualifying session for tomorrow's Chinese Grand Prix.
A rain shower dampened the track in parts halfway through the session, robbing teams of valuable dry-track time. Riders were able to return to the rapidly drying track for the final few minutes, but since both yesterday's sessions were run in heavy rain, this morning's hour-long outing has been the only fully dry session of a weather-blighted weekend, leaving riders and teams with precious little set-up time for what is expected to be a dry race.
Gibernau and Capirossi made the best of this afternoon's tricky session, continuing work on race set-up before switching to qualifiers in the final minutes, but neither rider was able to extract the full performance from their Desmosedici GP6s in the time available. Gibernau had led the early stages of the session and looked capable of taking pole position, but the Spaniard was unable to maintain that pace to the flag and ended 6th. Italian team-mate Capirossi will start from 10th position. Weather for tomorrow is unpredictable but Ducati Marlboro Team riders are going to exploit every single minute of the warm-up in order to make the last adjustments for the race.
SETE GIBERNAU, 6th fastest, 1m 59.639s
"That was a bit of a strange session. Everything seems to be working well enough from a race point of view, but we still have to work some more with Bridgestone to find the right race tyre choice. The first part of the session went okay but later on I was struggling to get a lap time with the qualifiers because I could do the first part of the lap not so bad, but after that the tyre wasn't giving me the grip I needed for a qualifying lap. It's up to us and Bridgestone to find the right solution for the race, because when the tyres are okay we know we can go well, but we don't what to end up in the same situation we were in at Istanbul. We have one more rear to try in tomorrow morning's warm-up session, one more choice that might help us for the race."
LORIS CAPIROSSI, 10th fastest, 2m 00.078s
"Sete and I have been using the same rear race tyre, but we need a bit more endurance for the race. I have been using a front tyre that's a bit harder than Sete's but it's okay for the race, while Sete's is softer but maybe doesn't have the endurance. This afternoon's rain didn't help us because we couldn't test everything we wanted to test. At the end of the session I didn't have full confidence in the front, so I couldn't fully exploit my qualifying tyres. We did our best today and we will need to make the most of warm-up to test more tyres, making sure we don't take any big gambles for the race."
Temperatures: Ambient: 19 degrees. Track: 21 degrees
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