Japan GP. 2nd qualifying practice

Repsol in the three poles of the GP of Japan
The second qualifying session of the Grand Prix of Japan has been witness to three riders carrying the colours of Repsol making the fastest time in the three categories. Under unstable weather conditions and the rain threatening to show up, and previewed to arrive tomorrow, the session has been carried out under normal conditions in the three categories, with exciting final moments in each one of them. In the 125 GP, Alberto Puig’s young pupil, Daniel Pedrosa, has confirmed yesterday’s excellent performance, making a time that was unreachable for the remaining riders only four minutes before the end of the second qualifying session. Pedrosa improved last year’s pole, achieved by the local hero Youichi Ui, by almost seven tenths. His teammate Joan Olivé improved the times he made yesterday by almost two seconds, putting himself on eighteenth position. In the 250 GP, Fonsi Nieto confirmed through his performance, that he is a firm title candidate this season. With serenity and precision, the Repsol rider has waited until the last five minutes of the second qualifying session to prepare a perfect lap. In the last lap, with his rivals having no further option to respond, Fonsi Nieto snatched the fastest time from the French De Puniet with a difference of hardly a tenth. For his teammate, Toni Elías, today hasn’t been a fortunate day. He ran off the track twice – the second one with crash included – that pushed him back to the eleventh position.The MotoGP category has lived a spectacular and very exciting end of the session. In the last 20 minutes, five riders, Rossi, Checa, Biaggi, Itoh and Capirossi, have been fighting for the best time of the starting grid, which was eventually taken by the Repsol Honda MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi. Rossi, who crashed again this morning, running of the track due to an error of his own, made an incredible lap this afternoon, taking the pole with only some tenths of advantage against his fellow countryman Loris Capirossi. His teammate Tohru Ukawa ended-up in a back eleventh position, suffering from a few problems with the behaviour of his bike.