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Troy Bayliss will
line up on the grid for tomorrow’s two World Superbike races at
the Autodromo di Monza in second place after a thrilling
Superpole battle with his arch-rival Troy Corser (Suzuki), who
took the pole.
Team-mate Lorenzo Lanzi was unable to make much headway both in
qualifying and the one-lap dash and will start the Italian Round
from the fourth row of the grid.
“In general I’m pretty satisfied because everything’s going
quite well” declared Troy. “I’m happy with the performance on
the race tyre but all weekend we’ve just been struggling with
the bike which is a little bit unstable at high speed. We’ll try
some minor change in the morning warm-up but I can deal with the
problem. Apart from that the bike is working well and I put a
good Superpole lap together. My lap looked a bit hairy but it
would be nice if I could relax a bit more on the straight
instead of having to work so hard. We’re reasonably happy, but
we just want a good day tomorrow with some good weather and I’m
sure we’ll see some great racing at the front.”
“It wasn’t a good day” commented Lorenzo. “Quite simply we were
unable to get the right set-up on the bike and then I was unable
to get the best out of the qualifying tyre. I also made a couple
of errors during my Superpole lap and here I am, forced to start
from the fourth row of the grid instead of the second. Let’s
hope for the best tomorrow, it’ll be tough to recover from so
far back, if you don’t latch on to the leading group, you can
forget about getting back up with the frontrunners”. |
