He wanted the front row but the fourth time in qualifying Alcaniz is not a result to be discarded for the race tomorrow to Nicky Hayden. Quick all weekend with his Ducati Desmosedici, Ducati rider feels confident and ready to achieve a positive result for the whole team.

“Overall I can say that was a good day, “says Hayden. “We had two dry practice sessions where we managed to improve the bike. Points to the first row, but we are still far away, we must be satisfied because the team is working very well so that me and Casey are in the first four. ”

Before thinking about the race the 2006 World Champion has shown a little background on preparing for this Grand Prix of Aragon.

“With the simulator we have in Ducati reference was provided lap of 1’49″ and a pole was 1’48 “9: unbelievable, it means that the company is working very well by each of the tasks to perfection! Tomorrow I hope to repay them with a good result we want at this time. “

A small error has denied Dani Pedrosa may play pole position to Motorland Aragon. Leading by two tenths in the first two areas, the Honda rider came off at losing a turn, finding themselves thus taking the third position for a (precious) front row: the start will be very important.

“I am happy to be in the front row, “admits Dani Pedrosa. “That was our main goal of the day. Unfortunately I made a small mistake on my last lap when I was 2 / 10 in the fastest time, so I think the pole would have been possible. The front row is important, however, can and must start well tomorrow because the first curve is close to the grid. ”

Strong victories at Indianapolis and Misano Adriatico, Pedrosa will aim to tris tomorrow even if it is not easy: he thinks the race will be fought most of the season.

” It’a new circuit, we have never raced here and can not know how the tires react on the race distance. We are still improving in recent races and my goal is always to fight for victory. I think the race is more uncertain of the season, because all we are left without references and with some question marks. “

As in Indianapolis also Motorland Aragon Valentino Rossi will start from third row with the seventh time. A tough day for the champion of Tavullia, but could be disastrous morning pondering the evidence where it has gone beyond the eleventh time in more than 1 “4 from the top …

“This morning was a disaster!”says Rossi. “In the afternoon we went a little better, but we are still not fast enough. In my last round with the soft tires I made a mistake and I lost about half a second, otherwise I think I could get the fourth time. We must start from the third row for which the start will be very important: I will not make mistakes, gain positions immediately and try to keep pace since the first street.

Good start and the first goal for the race tomorrow, the Warm Up early in the morning where it will try to set the most of his Yamaha YZR M1 with some modifications necessary to reduce the gap from the first.

“We already have some ideas, we will test tomorrow in warm-up trying to improve our race pace. I expect a tough and long race, but we will do our best, “concluded the nine times World Champion.

End of a long fast. After 12 races Casey Stoner back in pole position, a result that he lacked even the onset of the season in Qatar facing a difficult championship, to be forgotten, pending transition of its change of brand for 2011. With his Ducati Desmosedici GP10 has been found well to Motorland Aragon: best time in the wet yesterday afternoon, just this morning in optimal climatic conditions. The next step was the pole position this time has not escaped Iridium 2007, to reach a lap of 1’48 “942 like a thunderclap in the fighting ending of formal qualifications.

At the 20th career pole in MotoGP, Stoner trimmed to 3 / 10 Jorge Lorenzo, left to watch … especially the last (fast) sector where Casey made the difference. The leader of the world has recovered from a difficult morning, leaving behind Dani Pedrosa also, this time for his mistake on the last lap useful when it came off after a strong reference in the first two best lap of the circuit of Alcaniz. Okay for the driver of the Honda (and will remain for the next two years alongside his Stoner), especially considering the pace established in the practice sessions.

The challenge will be wide open with some uncertainty about the weather and the role of Valentino Rossi, 7th on the grid equaling worst result of the season at Indianapolis. A real “shot back” allowed him to gain half a second on his last lap certainty of finding the entire third row also tricolor with Andrea Dovizioso and Marco Simoncelli, but still behind Nicky Hayden, Ben Spies and Randy found a De Puniet from 4th to 6th on the grid.

Complete the top ten Hector Barbera, Alvaro Bautista can not do better than the 12th time with the only deployed Suzuki, Marco Melandri after tests in the wet to say the least convincing is found only at 14 ° in an unrecognizable Hiroshi Aoyama and Mika Kallio , 2 “from the top 5. For them it is ready the rain dance.

MotoGP World Championship 2010
Motorland Aragon Qualifying Standings

01 – Casey Stoner – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1’48 .942
02 – Jorge Lorenzo – Fiat Yamaha Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0309 +
03 – Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 0401 +
04 – Nicky Hayden – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 0564 +
05 – Ben Spies – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0623 +
06 – Randy De Puniet – LCR Honda – Honda RC212V – 1010 +
07 – Valentino Rossi – Fiat Yamaha Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1075 +
08 – Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 1104 +
09 – Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 1146 +
10 – Hector Barbera – Paginas Amarillas Aspar – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1381 +
11 – Colin Edwards – Tech 3 Yamaha Monster – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1498 +
12 – Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki – Suzuki GSV-R – 1581 +
13 – Aleix Espargaro – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1595 +
14 – Marco Melandri – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 1638 +
15 – Hiroshi Aoyama – Interwetten Honda – Honda RC212V – 1894 +
16 – Mika Kallio – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 2548 +

At night race in Singapore Formula 1 is in the spotlight. 1,500 lighting ensure that the track also appears as bright as day in the late evening, the cars in bright colors seem almost unreal. “Visibility is surprisingly good. There is absolutely no problems with shadows, you will never blinded by the floodlights.”

“Before we first have driven there, there were some reservations,” reports the Lotus-pilot, who took in recent years as a McLaren driver in the Asian metropolis. “In the flood, the cars just look cool. You are almost in the spotlight again and look a lot better than usual”

“I fly at the last minute of the race, so my body can not enforce the will to get used to the time zone,” said the Finn. “Because it is a night race, then you have to maintain the European rhythm. I am not even at my clock. The hotel must be able to darken the window well. We see almost only artificial light.”

“The track is nice, aside times of the bumps,” said Kovalainen. “So far they have not be able to get a grip. No light waves, but really heavy blows. Are the real jump hill. Some drivers were already there back injuries because of it. We are deep in the car, have little suspension – comfort is not the .

“Let’s see how it will be this year. If they have smoothed out the bumps better, it’s just a great road course – a track where I really have a lot of fun,” expressed the 28-year-old from his anticipation. Specifically for the Lotus Event in Singapore is obviously important. It has been “spectacular news,” announced the driver election 2011, change of name of the team and switch to Renault engines.

The motors could play in the fight for the Formula 1 crown in 2010 still a crucial role. Especially those pilots who are pushed by a Ferrari engine in front, standing before the last five rounds of the season as not particularly good. This applies just Sauber Nick Heidfeld most returnees, as his predecessor Pedro de la Rosa had been in Belgium can be mounted engine, and receive the ninth for the punishment.

But even with the red from Maranello, there are worries. Fernando Alonso, who after his latest, Monza win again good cards in the title fight, had to leave Italy in his last fit of the allowed per season eight fresh engine. Although the Spaniard still used engines in the rear, for example, the race in Singapore should survive well, but an engine blowouts could end the dream of a world title soon.
Ferrari may get the receipt for the engine damage to the season. How ‘auto motor und sport’ reports, the Italians had to start to apparently serious problems with the seals on the valve train. A too aggressive lubricant developed to have caused the problems. Ferrari could repair despite frozen development, since the like is more niche occurred. The training on Friday engines currently have to persevere with the Reds longer distances than planned.
“Unfortunately we started the year with problems,” Ferrari president Luca Marmorini Motor says in an interview with ‘Motorsport-Total.com “. “If we had this year had 20 races, then it would be difficult for us. We can afford no problems at all during the season more,” said the Italian, the order makes it clear how close the Reds for the final sprint of the season to be charitable. In comparison, Renault have both drivers still two fresh engines in the rear.

“It’s funny. In the past two or three years, we always say that the engine development is frozen and will remain the same engines,” says LM. “But it’s only the hardware is frozen, change the environment on the other hand constantly. The engines have to endure nearly double the mileage. This year it is a very different use of the engines, because refueling was banned.”

The Italian expert engine already provides for the coming year bring up new dark clouds. “There are more races,” said Marmorini. “This is really funny: The engines are to remain the same, but the conditions are changing. This makes it difficult for us.” At Ferrari’s we are not sure if it was eight engines per season is the right number. And for the years from 2013 it gets even thicker.
When equipped in three years, the formula with a little turbo machines, then the term should be again raised considerably – for cost reasons, as they say. “Originally, there should be four engines per year, but in the first five years of the new regulations,” said LM, which urgently needs an adoption of the new engine regulations. “This is an enormous step. To develop reliability is extremely difficult and expensive.”

“One should not underestimate the real”, said the Italian, who – as is probably many at Ferrari – not a big fan of small four-cylinder turbos. “Even if we had hinbekommen the new term with us for years known motors, then the effort would be substantial. This issue is particularly important and should be addressed quickly.” As a solution might look like, leaves Marmorini. The number of four or five engines per year, but seems far from set in stone to be.

The Toro Rosso account for the remaining five races of the season is pretty simple: if you are athletic moves on the level of Williams, then you can possibly displace Sauber in the championship yet. But that simple task will not. The Swiss are the Grand Prix in Singapore once again technically upgrading, also is missing at Toro Rosso have to fine tune the latest parts.

“We have long made any points, it has not worked well in Monza,” summarizes Sébastien Buemi. “But if we disregard the views of pure statistics, then Monza was really encouraging. The car was clearly competitive and we must not forget that Hamilton has failed except no one before us. In Monza we were far away from Williams, in Italy, I could but fight with Barrichello at tenth place. We are at eye level. ”
“Now we need to understand our improvements to the car better,” said Buemi. Especially in the F-slot is given to high hopes. “If we use the better, then we may in some of the remaining points race. The team is working hard on the last update of the season. So I am confident for the next race. Singapore should be better than us Monza.”

“I my second race in Singapore will go,” said the Toro Rosso driver. “Last year, the qualifying was quite good in the race it was not bad, but then I had to complain of a technical failure. The event is unique because of the floodlights. The view is good, but very different in daylight. The biggest concern we have, that it might sometimes be a heavy rain. Fortunately, so far it never happened during a session there. ”

The time to get used to the Singapore beat the Swiss in his own words any problems. “But the course is difficult and very wavy. The round is significantly longer than in Monaco. That – coupled with the usually high Tempertauren and high humidity – it’s one of the hardest routes in the seasonal calendar. The setup is on the road course always somewhat tricky, Also, in some curves, the curbs have been modified. ”

Teammate Jaime Alguersuari took the break after the Grand Prix in Monza, in the simulator to re-inject onto the track in Singapore. “I know the course of last year, but it is always good to refresh his memory once again,” said the Spaniard. “Let’s see what we can achieve. In Monza we have taken a step forward. However, should all the races in dry conditions are difficult for us.”

“Look how much we can help our new updates on a road course. There is run with significantly more downforce,” said Alguersuari. “My feeling is that we are Singapore and the subsequent race at Suzuka would be better able to come forward. I hope I can get into the top 10 and get a few points. It’s hard because there are four teams that actually always take points. If none of them fails, then the first eight places are already gone. ”
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Fernando Alonso was evasive on Friday amid suggestions he is clearly Ferrari’s number 1 bet to be 2010 world champion.

After the Hockenheim team orders affair, it is claimed the Spaniard might be considered the title favourite, given that rivals Red Bull and McLaren appear less inclined to favour one driver over his teammate.

“Each team will be giving 100 per cent with both their drivers for the common good of the team,” Alonso, whose Ferrari teammate is Felipe Massa, is quoted by Marca newspaper from a sponsor event.

“Felipe Massa will be giving everything and it’s the same with McLaren and Red Bull,” he insisted.

However, McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh insists the British outfit will not be departing from recent tradition by, for example, now backing Lewis Hamilton over Jenson Button.

“What the drivers do requires extreme dedication,” he is quoted by Germany’s Auto Bild.

“F1 is far more dangerous than it seems and it would be immoral to ask someone to risk his life for someone else,” added Whitmarsh.

After winning at Monza, Alonso thinks the next circuits will suit Red Bull’s RB6.

“From now until the end of the championship, I don’t see the circuits either favouring or not favouring the F10,” he said.

“At some tracks, Red Bull will have an advantage,” Alonso acknowledged.

MotoGP discovers Motorland Aragon, but the state of grace of Dani Pedrosa. Two consecutive victories assets between Indianapolis and Misano Adriatico, super start Alcaniz where he also traveled in the first practice session under the wall dell’1’51 “arriving at a best time of 1’50″ 506, then approached by a 1’50 “682 clear sign that the pace is not hard to find the official HRC rider yet for the next two years.

Pedrosa has created a vacuum in a circuit known last July with a Honda CBR1000RR road, pulling the novel pair of 4 / 10 consisting of Nicky Hayden (2 ° to + 0 “411) and Jorge Lorenzo (3 ° to + 0 “422). The main difference the three-time World Champion with his Honda RC212V can do in the last two curves in areas that combine sequence and the long straight, where special problems without traveling over 320 km / h.

Hayden and Lorenzo managed to limit the damage in the final minutes of the session, certainly not Valentino Rossi on track last week at Alcaniz with a Yamaha R1, now in a “second from the top seeing preceded by his illustrious predecessor Ducati Casey Stoner fourth, and Marco Simoncelli 5 ° as well as the best drivers on the track without any reference to Motorland Aragon.

Rossi postings that take on texture, with Hector Barbera seventh rule by none other than Andrea Dovizioso future still uncertain and the two Tech 3 riders arm in arm, with Colin Edwards 9th followed by Ben Spies. Marco Melandri for the eleventh position, Aleix Espargaro a fall on cold tires (yet?) the dynamics very clear with the highside at turn 2: no physical problem so to conclude with the 14th time this afternoon hoping to improve in second session in a renewed program of the MotoGP in Aragon.

MotoGP World Championship 2010
Motorland Aragon Rank Free Practice 1

01 – Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 1’50 .506
02 – Nicky Hayden – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 0411 +
03 – Jorge Lorenzo – Fiat Yamaha Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0422 +
04 – Casey Stoner – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 0689 +
05 – Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 1262 +
06 – Valentino Rossi – Fiat Yamaha Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1263
07 – Hector Barbera – Paginas Amarillas Aspar – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1286 +
08 – Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 1339 +
09 – Colin Edwards – Tech 3 Yamaha Monster – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1521 +
10 – Ben Spies – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1635 +
11 – Marco Melandri – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 1815 +
12 – Randy De Puniet – LCR Honda – Honda RC212V – 1834 +
13 – Aleix Espargaro – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 2,246 +
14 – Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki – Suzuki GSV-R – 2316 +
15 – Mika Kallio – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 2684 +
16 – Hiroshi Aoyama – Interwetten Honda – Honda RC212V – 3006 +

Rumours linking Flavio Briatore with Ferrari have shifted into a higher gear.

In July, it emerged that the disgraced, ousted and banned former Renault boss had visited the famous Italian team’s Maranello headquarters.

The visit unleashed a flood of rumours, including talk of a possible consultancy role with Ferrari.

Now, according to the major German daily Die Welt, 60-year-old Italian Briatore has visited Ferrari no fewer than two more times in recent weeks.

Additionally, Briatore was in the Monza paddock last weekend, as was Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, and Fiat chiefs John Elkann and Sergio Marchionne.

Briatore was also seen inside the Ferrari pits.

Welt reports that the charismatic Italian is endeavouring to have his FIA ban reduced so that he can return to a direct operational role in F1 before 2013.

If successful, he could replace Stefano Domenicali as Ferrari’s team boss, the newspaper said.

Briatore was asked about his Monza visit by German television Sky.

“I am meeting with Bernie (Ecclestone) and then flying back to London,” he answered at the Italian circuit before the race.

“It’s fantastic to be back, to see friends and to be in Italy,” added Briatore. “Ferrari are on pole and everyone is happy. Just wonderful.”

Briatore, who is Fernando Alonso’s manager and former team boss at Renault, played down suggestions he is itching to return to F1.

“I’m feeling very good and I’m happy with the way things are,” said Briatore.

To Italy’s Sky Sport 24, he indicated that a return to formula one in a commercial role is more likely.

“We will see what happens in the future,” said Briatore. “Next week I will not be in Singapore; I am also perfectly happy at home.”

Lotus has informed the media that it will be making “a number of very exciting announcements” in Singapore next weekend.

It is widely expected that the new team’s current drivers will be retained for another season, and that Lotus Racing will take on the historic Team Lotus moniker for 2011 and beyond.

And according to the rumour mill, with the team’s 2011 contract with Cosworth now dissolved, Lotus will be confirming an engine and gearbox deal with Renault.

But the Italian language Autosprint reports that Malaysian-owned Lotus could actually be set to announce a technical cooperation with Toyota Motorsport, the Cologne based outfit that raced in formula one between 2002 and last year.

Toyota is currently supplying Pirelli with a 2009-spec test car, and has been linked with a technical collaboration for 2011 with HRT, the struggling Spanish team.

But Autosprint reports that Lotus and Toyota are in fact set to collaborate, with Mike Gascoyne proving the crucial link between the two outfits.

Several former members of Toyota’s F1 team are now working with Lotus, such as sporting director Dieter Gass.

“We have to do something different and it will be done soon,” team boss and owner Tony Fernandes told the BBC at Monza last weekend.

“Lots of negotiations have gone on over the last couple of weeks and we’re very happy with the outcome,” he added.

If Red Bull had known in advance the performance of Cosworth’s engine, the British marque and F1′s title leading team could be working together now.

That is the opinion of Cosworth’s managing director Tim Routsis, who has revealed that talks between the independent Northampton based engine maker and Red Bull took place a year ago.

Instead, the RB6 is fitted with the Renault V8, which according to Red Bull is significantly down on power compared with the industry leading F1 engines.

Red Bull designer Adrian Newey said this week that the 2011 car will likely also be powered by Renault, due to McLaren vetoing a collaboration with the team’s preferred supplier, Mercedes.

But Routsis reveals that there were talks last year between Cosworth, who have lost Lotus as an engine customer for 2011, and Red Bull.

“There were several contacts with Red Bull,” he is quoted by the Italian language Autosprint.

“But we were at a disadvantage, because we had no evidence about how our engine was going to debut.

“I am convinced that if we had been able to wind the clocks forward by 13 months, things with Red Bull would have gone differently,” added Routsis.

At Monza, Sir Frank Williams confirmed once again that his Oxfordshire built cars will be powered by Cosworth in 2011, although the financial health of the marque’s other partners – HRT and Virgin – is clouded.

“We are pleased to have produced a very reliable and economical engine,” Routsis concluded. “This I think is recognised by everyone.”

The agreement was found last week at a meeting in Madrid between Dani Pedrosa, his manager Alberto Puig, Vice-President Operations HRC Shuhei Nakamoto, Livio Suppo (Marketing Director Honda Racing) and those responsible for Repsol. For the next two years (2011 and 2012) Pedrosa will race with Team Honda (HRC) in the MotoGP class, continuing a collaboration that has been going on since the debut of the Spaniard in the top class, the 2006 season.

Pedrosa, who raced with Honda … always by winning two 250cc world titles (2004, 2005) and World 125cc (2003), decided to bind to the HRC for two more years, so going to support Casey Stoner already announced last July. To define the future of Andrea Dovizioso, closer to the Gresini team.

“I’m really happy to have signed again with Honda, “said Pedrosa. “This was the team of my dreams since he was a kid, and even now I have the same feelings. We have had a long working relationship and successful, but now we believe we can achieve greater results.

Together we have built a strong relationship, we celebrated the victories and faced the difficulty we are now a good time and we have to continue like this, because our goal is to fight for the win every weekend and seek world title.

Is also mentioned in the press statement of Suzuki Tetsuo, HRC president, who claims to be “happy to have renewed for two more seasons with Dani Pedrosa. And ‘the best moment of his career with the RC212V and we believe we can create a formidable combination, “recalling the many years spent together.

After the 2012 season as Dani Pedrosa will race his seventh consecutive season with the same team, with the hope that he has already celebrated its first world title in the top class ..

Mika Hakkinen, Fernando Alonso continued to his World Cup account – and not just since the home victory in the Ferrari Grand Prix in Monza …

After the failure at Spa-Francorchamps, it was for Fernando Alonso already bleak as far as the chances of his third world title but, since the victory in Monza, he is back in the middle in the battle for the Formula 1 crown 2010th The former world champion Mika Hakkinen also looks like that the Ferrari driver still has on the bill.

“There are always opportunities to make up points,” the champion knows the 1998 and 1999 and gives an example: “Look at Indianapolis in 2005, when only six cars are driven. Anything can happen and you have to believe it. Can in Formula 1 crazy things happen. Fernando must believe it, to bet, thinking that he can do it. ”
Currently, the Spaniard only 21 counters missing on championship leader Mark Webber, less than a victory. It can also only one of the five remaining candidates for the title on the full support of his team are, as we know at least since the team orders at Hockenheim – with Red Bull and McLaren are still the two pilots in World Cup races.
In addition to Lewis Hamilton Alonso Hakkinen is now also the way to their favorite drivers. In the McLaren-season in 2007 showed that the two superstars do not work, at least in the same team. But Hakkinen believes that there is still no fault of his former employer was McLaren, Alonso and Hamilton to undertake.

“Alonso has realized that he and Hamilton can not be in the same team. They have found that they work under the same roof is not easy,” he says in ‘Marca’ interview. “I would not say that Alonso was a wrong decision – and certainly not Lewis. McLaren had earlier already Senna and Prost, but it was different …”

Romain Grosjean will replace departing test driver Nick Heidfeld at Pirelli’s next formula one tyre test.

Because Heidfeld has signed to return to racing with Sauber in Singapore and beyond, the Italian marque said the German will no longer work with F1′s 2011 tyre supplier “to avoid favouring any individual team”.

The 33-year-old’s last outing with Pirelli was this week at Jerez over two days.

And the 2011-2013 official supplier’s next outing will be at Monza next week, with former Renault driver Grosjean at the wheel of the Toyota.

“He’s packed a lot of experience into a short space of time, including all our GP3 tyre development, so I’m sure he’ll be able to give us some very useful feedback,” said Pirelli’s motor sport director Paul Hembery.

Swiss-born Frenchman Grosjean, 24, contested 7 grands prix with Renault last year, and most recently has been replacing injured GP2 driver Ho-Pin Tung.