Dani Pedrosa - Photo Credit: Repsol Honda
Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner both expect tomorrow's Spanish Grand Prix to present a huge challenge with the weather forecast looking increasingly uncertain. Pedrosa narrowly lost out on pole to Jorge Lorenzo but still feels well set for tomorrow, despite trepidation over the potential for rain.
“It’s been a really good qualifying session. It was very difficult to know how much to push because there were some wet spots and it was easy to make mistakes. Also after so many laps with wet tyres in the free practices, when you put on the slicks it’s like another bike but you have no time to waste to find a good lap time. So I’m quite impressed with the chrono and very happy to be on the front row. We’ve been riding well here in Jerez at the test and also during all the practice sessions this weekend, both in the dry and wet, but tomorrow we have to be ready for a tough race in any conditions and I want to have a good race here in front of my fans”.
Stoner had an unusually poor session which only yielded fifth, his worst qualifying result for 21 races, and admits he has no idea what to expect in the Grand Prix with so little dry running so far this weekend.
“Qualifying didn’t go so well, conditions have been terrible all weekend, from half dry tracks to fully wet so we haven’t really been able to get any form of set up on the bike. It’s a little bit disappointing, we had hoped to be on the front row but with conditions like this I wasn’t really willing to push. There were a lot of people falling off and the wet patches that were there were incredibly slippery. With this said, there is still half a second that I am accountable for and can’t blame the track, we’re just a little bit off with our settings so we have some work to do tonight. We’re not really sure what to expect until we see the weather tomorrow and this makes things pretty difficult”.
