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February 23rd, 2006
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A heavy rain shower on the first day troubled the new 2006 WSBK Championship’s debut round in Qatar. On the 5380 meters of Qatarin track took shape a slippery mixture of water and sand that penalized the riders during the today’s practice, and several of them did not ride morning free practice.

Roberto Rolfo - 14th - “This has been actually the first occasion to use the F05 in wet conditions and that’s been important. I had good sensations from the beginning, I only missed the lap performance because, when at the end of the session I rejoined the track to improve my lap time I found a lot of traffic and the racing lines were not free. Now we must go on with the qualifying setting in dry conditions that we started with success during Valencia’s test. I’m pretty sure tomorrow the track will be dry, as well for the race day forecast, and it means that tomorrow’s work will be very important.”

In Supersport the couple of 749R’s of Scuderia Caracchi had a black and white day. Joshua Brookes was tenth fastest until the last minute of the practice session, then he lost a few positions in the final laps, but he knows that in wet conditions he was not comfortable, so he preferred to wait for better conditions to make some important change on the bike setting. More unlucky has been Luka Nedog, stopped during the session by some technical problem on his #1 bike.

“There’s nothing to say, the lap time boards speaks by itself.” – commented Brookes at the end of the qualifying session – “I have not much reference in wet conditions and the bike hadn’t a good set up for that condition. However to do any important change it would be better to wait for dry conditions because the weather forecast said that we’ll have good weather both tomorrow as well on Saturday, the race day. Only tomorrow we’ll be able to see something good.”

Really disappointed at the end of the session Luka Nedog: “That’s actually discouraging. The best bike stopped suddenly after half an hour and the spare bike was not fast at all, so everybody were passing me on the line. Now we have a lot of work to make everything all right, but above all I hope that tomorrow the track will be dry.”
 
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