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What do
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want nE to tell
you?"
Rossi had less confrdence than
hir
teammate
proiected. But
the rnernory of !-ansforminS the
M- I at the last minut€ was
fresh
in
his mind and
he was hopeful it
could
h+p€n again.
"We have
some
new things to tn/ in the moming and we
have to hope that we can mak6 a bit improvement on Sun-
day to the setting, lik€ in SachsenrinS," he said.
Kenny Roberts.lr. filled out the front rcw. lt was the sec-
ond front row starting spot lor Team Robens
-
Calalunya
was the othd - but it took a raSged, fast lap to
get
there.
"l
struggled, I
just
struggled mentally," he said after lap-
pint
less than a tenth slower than Edwards.
"l
was overriding
it. I think we all strirggled. lt's who wa5 coping with it
quick-
er I $ink maybe we didn't have the riSht combination for
qualifying
sruff, But, like I said
yesterday,
l'd
be happy with
the front row. I would have been happier with the
front
row
if I would have been
in
tie
groove
easier and crossed the
line
and
gone,
'Okay,
I made
a tiny
mistake here
aod
there,' not
like
out of
control. lt's hard. Colin
[Edwards]
felt the same.
lust
the nature with today with the weather ahd the circuil"
Repaol Honda's Dani Pedrosa was an impresiive
fourth
Iastest on a track he'd never seen. On Friday he described
the bumps as
'unbelie\.able'
and said it was the bumpiest
track he'd ever raced on. Now with the ternperature up, the
tires weren'tgrippint when dley were on the
ground.
"We
couldn't really work on choosing a race tire as usual
this aftemoon because
it
was so slippery and there was
somethint strange about
the
Srip
-
perhapr
beaause
it was
so
hot,"
he
5aid after
lappinS
-070
slower than
Robens
Jr.
"The
lap times
were
much slow€r. Even with the qualiryinS tire I
was really, really slippery The track was narting to br€ak up
in
places.
lt wa! hard work, but
good
fun."
Vermeulen made himself the target when he moved !o
the top in the fiml third ofthe hour. The oee.ted msh
