MotoGP – Brno QP1 – Nakano improves but the leaders are still far away

Shinya Nakano will start tomorrow in the Czech Republic GP in Brno, the eleventh round of the 2005 MotoGP with the eleventh time. The Kawasaki rider improved his feeling with the Ninja ZX-RR but this was not enough to bring him into the top positions. His gap from Sete Gibernau's pole is just over a second and right in front of him is Max Biaggi who could become his teammate next year. Here are the words he released after qualifying.

“Today the bike improved compared to yesterday, I had more traction at the rear and the feeling with the front also improved. However, this was not enough to bring us into the top positions which are still far away. We have made some changes to the chassis and engine and tomorrow in the warm up we will try even other solutions. For the race I chose the new Bridgestone tires and I must say that the tires performed very well in qualifying too.”