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Paddock Girls: Indianapolis

The most glamorous paddock girls from the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix paddock, where round 12 of the 2011 MotoGP World Championship took place at the Brickyard.

De Puniet thirteenth, Capirossi improving

Randy De Puniet:

 
“In the end, it was a bad day if I consider that my physical condition isn’t allowing me to be at 100%. We didn’t change many things between this morning and this afternoon. However, we did decide to see which of the two frames we have available to us could better reward our work. The new one gave us a somewhat better impression considering that with the other one, the one we used for the first part of the season, I lost the front and fell. I think and I hope that with the small changes we’ll try tomorrow, I’ll be able to reduce the gap to the riders who tend to be in the top ten.”

Nico Terol topped the timings on Friday at the Cardion ab Grand Prix

Nico Terol topped the timings on Friday at the Cardion ab Grand Prix Ceské republiky, while Sandro Cortese’s fastest time in FP2 earned him second and Championship challenger Johann Zarco posted third quickest of the day.

Dani Pedrosa was the fastest man on opening day of the Cardion

Dani Pedrosa was the fastest man on opening day of the Cardion ab Grand Prix Ceské republiky weekend, ahead of Stoner and Simoncelli.

Stoner secures Sachsenring pole

Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner secured his sixth pole position for the 2011 season, 0.252s ahead of team mate and two time premier class winner at the Sachsenring circuit, Dani Pedrosa. Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing) lead the session at the 40 minute mark, to finally post his best lap of 1’21.933 to take the final front row spot.

Perfect conditions at the German circuit allowed the MotoGP class riders to post their best times of the weekend, with Stoner the first rider to break 1’22” with 16 minutes remaining, followed by Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini Team) then Pedrosa, and finally Lorenzo, who was the final rider to post a time inside the 1’21” times.

Simoncelli’s time of 1'21.954 put him in fourth place and is only the third time this season the Italian did not qualify on the front row. Joining 24 year old Simoncelli is Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory Racing), who finished 8th last year in Germany, with a time of 1'22.056. The American was followed by Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda), who is still looking for his first podium at Sachsenring, his best finish thus far at the circuit a fifth.

Colin Edwards (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) heads up the third row after posting his best lap of 1'22.368. The Texan’s best finish thus far was a fourth in 2007. Nicky Hayden (Ducati Team), who finished seventh in 2010, joins Edwards in eighth position, while as Randy de Puniet (Pramac Racing) completes row three with a posted time of 1'22.503 and Álvaro Bautista (Rizla Suzuki) completes the top ten riders.