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MotoGP:Lorenzo et Rossi cinquième et sixième sur la grille allemande / Second row Sachsenring slots for factory Yamaha duo

Les pilotes du team Movistar Yamaha MotoGP n’étaient guère satisfaits de leurs performances à l’issue des qualifications pour le Grand Prix eni Motorrad d’Allemagne, dont ils prendront le départ depuis la deuxième ligne.

Assez étrangement, Jorge Lorenzo et Valentino Rossi ont tous les deux enregistré leur temps de qualification sur leur premier run et n’ont pas pu progresser lorsqu’ils sont repartis sur un second pneu neuf en fin de séance. 

L’Espagnol était resté assez proche de la première position lors des essais libres mais n’a pas pu se montrer aussi compétitif qu’il l’espérait en qualifications et a terminé en cinquième position, à une demi-seconde de Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda), l’auteur de la pole.

« La cinquième position n’est clairement pas le résultat que nous visions pour les qualifications d’aujourd’hui, surtout que nous avions eu un bon rythme et été dans le Top 3 depuis le début du week-end, » a commenté Lorenzo. « Nous n’avons pas pu profiter des pneus neufs en qualifications et le deuxième pneu ne me donnait pas autant de motricité. Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais il glissait beaucoup et j’avais l’impression d’avoir un pneu différent. La course va être très longue, le premier tour sera important parce qu’il est difficile de doubler ici mais nous allons essayer de finir sur le podium. Notre rythme n’est pas si mauvais alors voyons si nous pouvons nous battre avec les autres. »

Son coéquipier Valentino Rossi était l’un des premiers pilotes à sortir de la pit-lane en Q2 mais est rentré aux stands au bout de deux tours. L’Italien a ensuite réalisé deux autres runs mais n’a pas réussi à progresser sur le dernier et se retrouvait en sixième position, à un peu plus d’un dixième de seconde de son coéquipier.

« J’ai heureusement pu faire un bon tour avec mon premier pneu, » a affirmé Rossi. « Normalement on va plus vite avec le deuxième, de deux ou trois dixièmes de seconde, mais cette fois-ci il y avait quelque chose qui n’allait pas avec le deuxième. Je n’avais pas de grip et j'ai eu du mal à ramener la moto au box. Je suis en deuxième ligne et c’est le minimum pour espérer faire une bonne course. Aujourd’hui nous avons bien travaillé sur la moto, ce n’était pas si mal mais ce sera dur demain. »

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP riders Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi will start Sunday’s eni Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland from fifth and sixth respectively on the grid.

Both riders had a good start to the sunny 15-minute qualifying session, Lorenzo initially taking second and Rossi taking fifth place with their first flying laps. The Yamaha riders had multiple runs to determine their starting position, improving their times by more than 0.3s from the morning’s free practice.

Both then unfortunately suffered from a lack of grip with their second qualifying tyres, restricting their ability to make a further attack towards the end of Q2.

Lorenzo had a late start to the qualification session in order to get a flying lap in without any traffic. With 11 minutes to go the Spaniard showed his consistency as he rode a sequence of laps into the 1.21’s and clocked a 1’21.526. With six minutes left of the session he came in for a fresh set of tyres to have another go at putting his name at the top of the leading board. Two minutes later he was back on track and able to improve on his time by 0.350s, delivering a session best of 1’21.508 to finish in fifth place.



“Fifth is definitely not what we expected from today's qualifying session, especially because we have a good pace and we’ve always been in the top three during the weekend. In the qualifying we couldn’t take profit from the new tyres and the second tyre didn't have the same traction, I don't know why, it was spinning a lot and felt like a different tyre. It’s going to be a very long race, the first lap will be important because it's difficult to overtake here but we will try to get another podium. We are not so bad in pace so let's see if we can stay with the front guys,” stated Lorenzo.

Teammate Rossi had the opposite approach to the qualifying session. The Italian was one of the first riders to get out on track, but soon returned to the pits after two laps. With 11 minutes remaining he was back on his way and immediately shot up to fifth in the standings with a hot lap of 1’26.651. With five minutes remaining Rossi had another return to the pit box, before quickly heading out for another run. The nine time World Champion was unable to improve his time and will start sixth.

Rossi commented, “Fortunately I did quite a good lap with the first tyre. Usually you can go faster with the second tyre by two or three tenths, but there was something wrong with the second one. It didn’t have any grip and it was also very difficult to get the bike back to the box. I’m on the second row and the second row is the limit for a good race. Today we worked well on the bike, we’re not so bad, but for tomorrow it will be hard.”

Breslau Poland: The truck-legends are back - scrutineering - Ford Ranger.

Saturday midday: The "Breslau Poland" rally has started with the technical scrutineering. 66 cars, 28 trucks, 17 bikes and 17 SSV signed in for the race, which will take place from 13-19th July 2014 in the north-west of Poland around the cities Recz, Drawsko Pomorskie and Borne Sulinowo.

The race itself will start on Sunday with two stages: In the morning the competitors have to handle a "warm up" of 71 kilometers timed section, followed by the legendary night-stage called "Lazer Night Flights" and 58 kms. In the following days, 1108 kms timed section are waiting for the participants - the longest stage will be on Thursday (280 kms).

As in every year, the competitors are a great mix between amateurs and experts - some "5000 Euro Cars" will mess with "150.000 Euro" cars - same in the trucks. Especially in the trucks we will see a great battle between the "Baja Deutschland" winner Leon de Wit from Holland (Mercedes-Scania prototype), Ton Stoker (Holland, Iveco), Ales Loprais (Tatra, Czech Republic) and many more.

And we also have two "legends": The former Breslau winners Peter Niedergesaess (Scania, Germany) - who has his rally-comeback after a long break - and the German truck-expert and "Wetten Dass" television-star Udo Heidenreich (Mercedes Unimog).

Next to many interesting rallycars, especially from France, the big surprise in the cars is the former winner Robert Kufel from Poland: He will celebrate the "world-premiere" of his own-build Ford Ranger. The car looks like the factory-Ford from South Africa, but is "100% Polish" - and powered by a diesel-engine. Stay tuned this week for a great rally in Poland!

Also interesting: The "Volkswagen T3 Rallyvan" of Bernd Jäger (the car looks like a former postal-van - but the yellow colour is officially "Porsche Yellow"), Hanna Sobota from Poland (Mitsubishi Pajero T2), the Hungarian built Opel Antara RR of the Bulgarian Petar Cenkov (winner of the Balkan Breslau), Cedric Porcher from France (Toyota Prototype) or trophy-legend Jim "Gigglepin" Marsden from the UK with his extreme Land Rover...

2014/07/12 | 15:11 CET | ARTICLE: MR/HS
via http://www.marathonrally.com