Someone else would have sold his mother to take a second place on tomorrow’s MotoGP starting grid, but not Casey Stoner.
The reigning World Champion was pretty upset with how his Qatar qualifying session went because the chatter issues returned with a vengeance.
Livio Suppo believes that the underlying problem is basically due Bridgestone’s new tires performance on the RC213V and also thinks that since the new tires were introduced mainly for safety reasons to avoid the high and devasting number of cold tire crashes that have happened over the past couple of years, that Stoner and Pedrosa who feel safer on the other spec should be allowed to use them.
“I’m not really happy with how qualifying went for us, it should have been a lot better especially on the soft tyre which we hadn’t used all weekend.
Last night we were happy with what we had improved and with the set-up in general.
Then tonight we tried to improve that set-up and we just made it worse and worse.
In the end we did a full circle and came back to what we had on Thursday night and we have huge chattering problems again.
Now we have a lot of work to do to understand what’s gone wrong and where the problem is before tomorrow.
If we can make a big step forward in warm up then we can challenge for a podium and maybe fight for the win, but if the bike remains as it is at the moment, then we were going to be in for a long hard race,” said Stoner who even dissed his team while he was at the parc ferme.
Whether Dani Pedrosa is carry some guilt complex from being publically caught cheating which may be carrying over into his performance in Qatar no one can really say, but after having exchanged some hot words with his crew chief yesterday in FP3 he immediately crashed, so something is definitely bothering the Spaniard, because no one was expecting to seen him in 7th and on the third row and with so many problems.
“We solved a little the issues we had yesterday with the electronics, but we had other problems today.
I stopped in the garage to change the bike and it didn’t start, twice.
I lost a lot of time there and I had to take the other bike which I didn’t feel comfortable with either.
It’s a shame.
The team couldn’t do any better and nor me; from this point I lost the concentration a little and we couldn’t get a better position.
Seventh on the grid is not a good place to start the race, but I hope that we don’t have any issues tomorrow and I can have a good race.
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