Pacific GP. Second practice

Another pole for Toni Elias and Dani Pedrosa in Motegi
Third consecutive pole for Elias this season; Valentino Rossi third and confident
 The MotoGP class witnessed this afternoon again an intense fight for the best time of the session. With three minutes left for the end of the qualifying practice the local rider Tamada, third of the Rio Grand Prix, surprised everybody taking the lead in the time sheets. But a masterful last lap of Biaggi allowed him to put himself in the front, leaving Tamada in second place, Valentino Rossi third and Sete Gibernau fourth. Rossi and Gibernau, both with physical problems flu and stomach aches didnt show themselves eager to fight for the pole in this second qualifying practice. Nicky Hayden, more competitive than yesterday took a place on the second row of the starting grid setting the fifth fastest time. The young North American rider took the pole twelve minutes before the end of the session, although only for a short period of time.   In the 250cc class, Toni Elias was the lucky and his teammate Fonsi Nieto the unlucky side of the Repsol riders results. Elias managed to set the fastest time in a masterful last lap, leaving the second classified, the Italian Battaini, eighth tenths behind of him. This has been Elias third pole in a row this season. However, his teammate Fonsi Nieto was not able to improve the time set yesterday enough and finished in fifteenth position, due to problems with the bikes settings. Sebastián Porto set the fourth fastest time in another positive timed session for him,  Héctor Faubel finished seventeenth and Joan Olivé twenty-eighth.In the 125cc class, Dani Pedrosa improved the second position he had clinched yesterday taking the pole, the third of the season, with an advantage of more than eighth tenths over the second classified rider and direct rival in the fight for the title, the Italian Stefano Perugini. Héctor Barberá, with the fourth best clock of the afternoon, has also taken a place on the front row, while his teammate Pablo Nieto, who had a light crash this morning, managed to improve the seventeenth position of yesterday considerably, moving up to the sixth place, allowing him to take the start of the race from the second row of the grid.