Today it has become to live-fought first session in the MotoGP Grand Prix of South Africa. Team drivers Repsol Honda MotoGP Valentino Rossi and Tohru Ukawa have again emerged as one of the fastest drivers in the category, fighting until the final moments of the qualifying session to seize the pole. Honda 2 stroke Italian Loris Capirossi set the fastest time in the afternoon, followed by Daijiro Katoh and the two Repsol riders Ukawa and Rossi.
Fonsi Nieto has become a very fast 250cc show, marking the fourth fastest time in the morning and third in the qualifying session. His teammate Toni Elias still imposed a rapid process of adaptation to the quarter-liter category. Ten days ago, two seconds faster than has been shot in the afternoon will be allowed to provisional seventh place. Toni will start tomorrow in order to maintain its position in the second row of the grid.
125cc. Daniel Pedrosa has again shown himself to be one of the regular riders of the category. Third in the morning and afternoon in the timed practice sessions, the pupil of Alberto Puig is just three-tenths of the pole, won by the reigning world champion Manuel Poggiali and Gilera. His teammate Joan Olive has improved dramatically over their first official practice in Japan, making this afternoon the thirteenth fastest time.
