2002 World SuperBike Championship - Round 5 - Monza - Qualifying 1

Castrol Honda's Colin Edwards was second fastest in today's opening qualifying session for round five of the World Superbike championship here at Monza in Italy.

Edwards was happy with his display in the one-hour session and on his opening day performance after leading the way in this morning's free practice session.

"I know that we've got a lot more to come from the SP-2 yet," said Edwards. "We've spent today working on the machine set-up but mainly looking for potential race tyres.

"The rain this morning and a damp track at the start of this afternoon's session hasn't helped but it's the same for everyone. But I only got two clear laps in the whole of the one-hour session and both of them were 1m48.6s. It's really difficult to get a lap with riders looking around everywhere trying to get into your slipstream at 200mph."

Edwards was also twice penalised for overshooting the circuit's first chicane, he joked: "Braking's not my strong point at that chicane at the moment!"

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