:01:20. > :01:30.We are ready for a start. Oh, no! Rossi. Why and I went to the corner,
:01:30. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:43.I fell down. I am lucky. I am OK. do not believe it! You can see what
:01:43. > :01:48.he is thinking, how did I do that?! He is going for the inside. He has
:01:48. > :01:52.done it. Cal Crutchlow, another podium. I hate to be gifted the
:01:52. > :01:57.podium, I want to work for it. I was working in the end. I came back
:01:57. > :02:07.quite fast. If I kept going, I would have been able to catch him
:02:07. > :02:15.and be on the podium. Contact almost between Lorenzo and Dani
:02:15. > :02:21.Pedrosa. Job done for Jorge Lorenzo, winning three in a row in Italy.
:02:21. > :02:31.opened the little gap I needed and finally I did it. From then on, it
:02:31. > :02:31.
:02:31. > :02:38.was more easy for me. Welcome to qualifying practice for the Grand
:02:38. > :02:43.Prix in Barcelona. What a race in Mugello. A timely win for Jorge
:02:43. > :02:47.Lorenzo. Cal Crutchlow, the first British rider since Rocket Ron
:02:47. > :02:53.Haslam to score back-to-back podium Haslam to score back-to-back podium
:02:53. > :02:57.finishes. Fantastic. It has been a brilliant start to the season. The
:02:57. > :03:01.third place consolidating 4th in the standings ahead of Valentino
:03:01. > :03:06.Rossi and six points short of Marc Marquez, both of those riders
:03:06. > :03:12.crashed out in Italy. This is a special race for Rossi. A six time
:03:12. > :03:14.when they hear. Particularly for Marquez, Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa,
:03:14. > :03:21.Marquez, Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa, who live a couple of miles from the
:03:21. > :03:28.track in Barcelona. Dani Pedrosa is in good form on the track and off
:03:28. > :03:31.it. So much so that he took a are so long to a cocktail party and
:03:32. > :03:35.gave a great interview for the show tomorrow in which he talked about
:03:35. > :03:41.everything. Among the interesting things, his thoughts on his team-
:03:41. > :03:51.mate from just down the road. How do you think Mark coming into
:03:51. > :03:53.
:03:53. > :03:57.the team, has that -- how has that changed or improved you as a rider?
:03:57. > :04:07.He is a little different from the riders I used to work with the fall
:04:07. > :04:14.in the team. Casey was fast and with super talent. He had his own
:04:14. > :04:20.idea of how to do it. He would be in second and I would be in third
:04:20. > :04:28.gear on the corner, gearbox choice for the race. He was working his
:04:28. > :04:35.way in and I was working my way. Mark is also super-fast. He does
:04:35. > :04:42.not have that knowledge. He is more ensue, OK, he is doing this, I have
:04:42. > :04:51.to do this because he has the experience. Somehow, it is hard for
:04:51. > :04:56.me to know him because he is new in the class. In the other way, I have
:04:56. > :05:05.to keep the throttle open. He looks at me as a reference. He is pushing
:05:05. > :05:11.to be close to me or Jorge Lorenzo. The these are live shots. They have
:05:11. > :05:18.just finished the practice session. The order for qualifying was
:05:18. > :05:22.decided this morning. Upper the commentary box, Steve as always.
:05:22. > :05:27.Dani Pedrosa is showing consistency to be a contender in the
:05:27. > :05:33.Championship. Perhaps at this stage a title favourite.
:05:33. > :05:39.If not favourite at least in the hunt. He leads at the moment. He
:05:39. > :05:43.had two whens. Lorenzo has two. He will need to back this one. Our
:05:43. > :05:48.after his performance last year I had him down to win the
:05:48. > :05:52.Championship this year. I did not expect Marc Marquez to be as fast.
:05:52. > :06:00.With Casey Stoner again in, this looked like his best chance. He is
:06:00. > :06:04.fast. A little fragile. If he falls down, he will be protected. Dani
:06:04. > :06:11.Pedrosa is the real deal. I have seen his style changed. He has
:06:11. > :06:16.become more aggressive. As we have discussed, having Marc Marquez and
:06:16. > :06:18.Casey Stoner, it has made him ride the wave Valentino Rossi did when
:06:18. > :06:26.Lorenzo came along. It has lifted him.
:06:26. > :06:30.Our under pressure, of course. This is a race that the two will really
:06:30. > :06:34.want to win. They are both from Barcelona. Jorge Lorenzo has lived
:06:34. > :06:40.here since he was a teenager. Who could forget the battle he had
:06:40. > :06:48.here? We think about it every time we come here, it was a seminal
:06:48. > :06:52.moment in the modern day of MotoGP. Valentino taking it at the final
:06:52. > :07:01.corner. He mocked him. You can only do that
:07:01. > :07:07.on the last corner. -- mugged. Valentino compromised his exit
:07:07. > :07:12.speed. But Lorenzo was not expecting that. I have never seen
:07:12. > :07:18.anyone pass another guy for the win. You might pass the back mark, but
:07:18. > :07:22.it was a deep breath, see what happens... It worked for him. This
:07:22. > :07:27.is what we like about Valentino Rossi. He does what you do not
:07:27. > :07:33.expect. I am not sure this weekend. We will see.
:07:33. > :07:37.It was a reminder. I am still the big person in his garage. It's set
:07:37. > :07:42.Lorenzo back for a little while. The relationship has changed quite
:07:42. > :07:48.a lot since then. There was a funny moment in the press conference.
:07:48. > :07:58.Valentino was asked by a journalist about the last corner manoeuvre.
:07:58. > :08:08.Would you be ready for a last lap like 2009 against Jorge Lorenzo?
:08:08. > :08:08.
:08:08. > :08:12.he is waiting for me, yes! He has not lost his sense of humour.
:08:13. > :08:17.He might surprise himself this weekend. In free practice he has
:08:17. > :08:22.probably been closer to the top than he might have expected.
:08:22. > :08:25.Yesterday, during the free practice, he was fastest on track, the first
:08:25. > :08:30.he was fastest on track, the first time he has led the session in the
:08:30. > :08:37.dry since 2010. This morning, things changed. The pace increased.
:08:37. > :08:45.Marc Marquez set this time. Rossi in fourth place, one-tenth off
:08:45. > :08:51.Marquez. The pace was red hot. We are set for an absolutely scorching
:08:51. > :09:00.Q2. First up his cue one, the riders from 11th place down.
:09:00. > :09:04.Bradley Smith narrowly missed out on qualifying for Q2. Still injured
:09:04. > :09:09.this weekend after the crash when he took skin off his finger and he
:09:09. > :09:13.hopes to have a skin graft, he wanted it in Italy but it was so
:09:13. > :09:19.bad he could not have the operation. He is still in discomfort. Even
:09:19. > :09:25.more so after a tumble yesterday. The crash was silly. I ended up
:09:25. > :09:31.looking into the corner, just getting on the gas, Los the front
:09:31. > :09:35.and try to save it on my elbow. -- lost the front. At the wrong time,
:09:35. > :09:39.these mistakes. I feel that something is missing at the moment
:09:39. > :09:44.and if we find it we will make a good step. It is trying to find it
:09:44. > :09:49.at the moment. When the injury, I have to be careful to stay on two
:09:49. > :09:55.wheels. What do you make of his wheels. What do you make of his
:09:56. > :10:01.progress so far? You would have to say Bradley is
:10:01. > :10:07.finding it difficult. He is coming in to it's not doing as well as
:10:07. > :10:12.others. He was on a bike that was not proven. He is finding it tough.
:10:13. > :10:17.Been injured is hard enough... It is hard enough when you are not
:10:17. > :10:21.injured. It is incredibly painful, even though it is a small finger.
:10:21. > :10:31.He will have to keep going round until it comes back together. It is
:10:31. > :10:31.
:10:31. > :10:37.not easy. He might struggle. He is a thinker. He digs deep. This
:10:37. > :10:42.morning, he was a distant 13th, 14th, he was struggling. He got his
:10:42. > :10:51.head down. And although he is the 11th and in this first session
:10:51. > :10:58.going out now, he is only one second from the pole time.
:10:58. > :11:02.Bradley looking to be one of the top two riders in the session. De
:11:02. > :11:09.Puniet would be another one. Laverty will not look for the top
:11:09. > :11:14.to spot. I will let you take it away for the rest of the session.
:11:14. > :11:18.Michael on his first visit will have impressed.
:11:18. > :11:28.I reckon he has covered himself I reckon he has covered himself
:11:28. > :11:50.
:11:50. > :12:00.the top two that will move him through to qualifying two. He will
:12:00. > :12:09.
:12:09. > :12:13.have to look at people like Andrea Iannone. The time we are looking
:12:13. > :12:20.for from Bradley as he commences a lap, so you can see it scrolling,
:12:20. > :12:26.his best in the combined free practice sessions was a 42.957.
:12:26. > :12:36.That was this morning when it was cooler. He will be looking to get
:12:36. > :12:38.
:12:38. > :12:42.into the 42s to get himself ahead. The track generally gets like that
:12:42. > :12:49.when it is hot. I would not like to be down in the hot pit lane. That
:12:49. > :12:55.is the sort of time he would be looking at. We had 41s in this
:12:55. > :13:01.morning's practice from the faster guides, such as Marquez. May be
:13:01. > :13:06.creeping into that this afternoon. It is one of the big circuits,
:13:06. > :13:12.Catalunya. Fantastic, elevation changes. Fast and fluent, we like
:13:12. > :13:20.that. It has a monster straight. And one of the most challenging
:13:20. > :13:28.braking zones. Two, in fact. They are doing in excess of 210 miles
:13:28. > :13:35.per hour into a fast right-left chicane. They lose about 140 mph in
:13:35. > :13:41.300 metres down to that braking zone. You have to left -- let the
:13:41. > :13:51.brakes off when you are to begin. There is a corner and we were
:13:51. > :13:52.
:13:52. > :13:56.talking about. This is across the Strait. 44.2. He has done a 42.9.
:13:56. > :14:03.That is the guide. He has 11 minutes to chip away at that.
:14:03. > :14:13.Bradley Smith, at the moment the fastest man on track. Iannone has
:14:13. > :14:14.
:14:14. > :14:19.just taken a second out of Bradley's opening lap. Iannone on
:14:19. > :14:25.the Pramac Ducati, always knocking on the door and getting into -- to
:14:25. > :14:30.get into the top 10. The number 51 machine we have been talking about.
:14:30. > :14:34.That is nothing like the other Ducatis on the track. They keep
:14:34. > :14:39.playing around with it. It will be something they will be testing on
:14:39. > :14:49.Monday. There was a test day here for a lot of the teams who will be
:14:49. > :14:57.staying. Some are raft to Aragon. There is a lot of testing. -- off
:14:57. > :15:03.to Aragon. Suzuki will be testing, the factory, on Monday. There is a
:15:03. > :15:09.lot of riding going on. That is De Puniet. He will have had six days
:15:09. > :15:14.of solid riding a motorcycle. He is fit and he will be needing to be.
:15:14. > :15:18.Bradley Smith. The third part of the lap. Coming up to the final
:15:18. > :15:28.section. He needs to be at the top two. He is not going to be on this
:15:28. > :15:32.lap, by the look of it. His little finger is badly damaged. They have
:15:32. > :15:42.put the little finger and the next one to it in the same part of the
:15:42. > :15:52.
:15:52. > :16:00.second for Ducati in this session so far. Bradley Smith knocking on the
:16:00. > :16:06.door behind. The fastest, Andrea Iannone. He had done 43.1 this
:16:06. > :16:16.morning. He quickly achieved his best time. It is possible to go as
:16:16. > :16:18.
:16:18. > :16:26.quickly as that this morning. Colin Edwards. The first of the CRT bikes.
:16:26. > :16:32.That is what he has got to be looking at. Randy De Puniet. Get in,
:16:32. > :16:36.have another tyre. He has displaced Colin Edwards. They are putting in
:16:36. > :16:46.good laps. The speed they are getting out of it is pretty
:16:46. > :16:48.
:16:48. > :16:58.stunning. It is quite extraordinary. Randy De Puniet, 318 K 's. They give
:16:58. > :17:06.
:17:06. > :17:09.away some time. This one can do 340. Very close. A slower machine again.
:17:09. > :17:15.Number 71, Claudio Corti, the 25-year-old. Colin Edwards'
:17:15. > :17:23.team-mate. We have a new rider, Javier del Amor, who has been
:17:23. > :17:29.drafted in. That is because of an injury. Hiroshi Aoyama had a crash,
:17:29. > :17:35.and out of nowhere, they have grabbed a whole of Javier del Amor,
:17:35. > :17:40.and out he goes. Talk about a baptism of fire. He is not the
:17:40. > :17:50.slowest so far. He has got a battle just to qualify. He needs to go as
:17:50. > :17:56.quickly as he can and make the 107%. He is on the Avintia Blusens
:17:56. > :18:02.machine. 36 years old. He will know his way around here, that is half
:18:02. > :18:09.the job done. Bradley Smith having another tyre fitted. Seven minutes
:18:09. > :18:15.remaining of this session. He has his eyes on springs. They are fast,
:18:15. > :18:20.he will be thinking. This is a better lap from Javier del Amor. He
:18:20. > :18:26.is currently 9.9 seconds off the fastest time, so this will take some
:18:26. > :18:32.time of that. He has taken three seconds out of his best time. That
:18:32. > :18:40.is good stuff, a vertical learning curve. He normally rides the BMW
:18:40. > :18:44.1000 in the Spanish championship. Changing the settings, trying
:18:44. > :18:50.different springs... Not in this session, but they will establish
:18:50. > :19:00.what is going on. When you have got good tyres on, you can load up the
:19:00. > :19:01.
:19:01. > :19:05.suspension. Michael Laverty was talking about how much you have got
:19:05. > :19:10.with a new rear tyre, especially up through the chicane the long
:19:10. > :19:16.right-hander, Corner number three, he says you can get on the power
:19:16. > :19:21.earlier and harder. And after three laps, the traction control starts
:19:21. > :19:31.kicking in, and you lose lap time. Randy De Puniet getting a new rear
:19:31. > :19:31.
:19:31. > :19:37.wheel. It is characterised by the tyre consumption, the circuit. So
:19:37. > :19:41.many long opening right corners in particular, it is very tough.
:19:41. > :19:46.the third corner in particular, even though it is the start of the lap,
:19:46. > :19:54.it heats the tyre up, it never gets a chance to call down. Asymmetric
:19:54. > :20:04.tyres as we see Andrea Iannone putting in a good lap. He is sitting
:20:04. > :20:06.
:20:06. > :20:15.away nicely. Claudio Corti back into the pits. He is working hard, Andrea
:20:15. > :20:21.Iannone -- Andrea Iannone. He would hear in a previous guise. He is no
:20:21. > :20:31.slouch in this circuit. This should be a belting lap. That will lock him
:20:31. > :20:39.
:20:39. > :20:46.morning. That is excellent from him. Bradley Smith is still on the
:20:46. > :20:56.track. He is still further. He needs to find half a second to move
:20:56. > :21:03.
:21:03. > :21:13.himself up into contention for the gear, the fifth corner. Down the
:21:13. > :21:14.
:21:14. > :21:22.hill. Then a very tight climb back up the hill. They create a lot of
:21:22. > :21:27.the curb. Another important corner, the ninth corner. Coming down to the
:21:27. > :21:34.second, a monster breaking point. This is the spot that has caught
:21:34. > :21:43.everybody out. This is a cracking lap, almost 0.2 ahead of the best
:21:43. > :21:53.time. Andrea Iannone is on a good lap as well. They might eclipse the
:21:53. > :21:59.
:21:59. > :22:06.moment, he has had an injection in his hand to stop that. Bradley Smith
:22:06. > :22:11.goes fastest! Job done. He has gone faster by 0.3 seconds than he did
:22:11. > :22:16.this morning, so that is great stuff. As we said before, digging
:22:16. > :22:23.deep, he is now in front of Andrea Iannone. Two and a half minutes
:22:23. > :22:29.left. If the team are pleased, they need to tell their faces! That was a
:22:29. > :22:35.great job! In these conditions, it is a lot harder, the track
:22:35. > :22:39.temperature has soared. You will not get many laps out of these tyres at
:22:39. > :22:48.optimum speed. He will not get chance to do another one, he knows
:22:48. > :22:58.that. He has seen the best time he has done all we can do. It was 42.9
:22:58. > :23:18.
:23:18. > :23:23.before, so he found 0.3 there. A was. Andrea Iannone on another
:23:23. > :23:30.decent lap. But he is being mobbed by his team-mate, it will appear
:23:30. > :23:35.that he has done enough. This could go anyway. You have got to keep
:23:35. > :23:43.circulating. He is in there unless his team-mate gets him, and this is
:23:43. > :23:53.his team-mate. As you can see, he is projected to be in third place,
:23:53. > :23:56.
:23:56. > :23:59.halfway through the lap. This is his last shot. Down the hill towards the
:23:59. > :24:08.demanding tent corner, which has caught so many people out across the
:24:08. > :24:12.weekend. He has seen the best of his tyres. Bradley Smith is now back
:24:12. > :24:17.into the pits, he knows he has done the best he can out of the equipment
:24:17. > :24:26.he has got in this session, and it looks to be enough. He is in the
:24:26. > :24:32.pits in first place. Looking at his time, 42.6, that puts him in about
:24:32. > :24:36.ninth place, exactly where he wants to be. That would be a cracking
:24:36. > :24:44.result. That would be the third row, that would be really something.
:24:44. > :24:53.He is in the hunt. As the seconds countdown, we are looking at Pope
:24:53. > :24:58.Bradley Smith is through. And Andrea Iannone going with him. What that
:24:58. > :25:05.means for Bradley Smith, he will be no logo -- no lover Danforth row of
:25:05. > :25:09.the grid. And no harm at all, given that this is his first year on a
:25:09. > :25:17.MotoGP machine, getting the extra few laps that the session gives you
:25:17. > :25:27.before you move up into the main qualifier. Nice action. Very
:25:27. > :25:27.
:25:27. > :25:33.relaxed. Very. We have a ten minute break now that the chequered flag
:25:33. > :25:37.has gone out until we get to the second session. The big guns, now.
:25:37. > :25:47.That will be something to watch. Randy De Puniet just finishing the
:25:47. > :25:48.
:25:48. > :25:54.lap. It will be amazing to see, it is so close. You have got the first
:25:54. > :26:03.ten covered by 0.9 seconds, the first half a dozen covered by 0.3.
:26:03. > :26:05.It is really tough at the top. Unbelievably, the second fastest in
:26:06. > :26:15.the combined sessions was Nicky Hayden on the Ducati. That for some
:26:15. > :26:20.lap. It surprised a lot of us. Whether he can reproduce that... We
:26:20. > :26:27.know he is capable of a fast lap. Holding his lap -- holding his
:26:27. > :26:29.breath and going for it. Qualifying is one thing, it will be a torturous
:26:29. > :26:39.25 laps tomorrow, the weather forecast is similar to today, 27
:26:39. > :26:43.degrees ambient. A thumbs up from Bradley Smith. Do you remember how
:26:43. > :26:46.he looked in Mugello, with his father trying to get the glove on?
:26:46. > :26:54.He missed some minutes of the session just through the pain of
:26:54. > :27:00.having his finger hanging and having a tender not better. It is
:27:00. > :27:09.extraordinary how many riders have got missing little fingers or messed
:27:09. > :27:13.up fingers, broken fingers, twisted fingers. Unfortunately, the little
:27:13. > :27:19.finger can get underneath the handlebar when you crash. That is
:27:19. > :27:23.what does the damage. Yes, I remember Jorge Lorenzo having a
:27:23. > :27:30.warmup accident like that, but no harm done, it was his wedding ring
:27:30. > :27:40.finger! That went missing! Barry Sheen's finger ended up in my dinner
:27:40. > :27:50.once. On my plate. I hope it was served to your satisfaction.
:27:50. > :28:03.
:28:03. > :28:08.He is going to have to keep his fingers crossed that they do not go
:28:08. > :28:18.too quickly in this next session, or he will be outside the 107%
:28:18. > :28:48.
:28:48. > :28:58.qualification in it. It is stinking manufacturers, it is brilliant to
:28:58. > :29:15.
:29:15. > :29:25.see. That is a cracking job by and it is pleasing to see a. It is
:29:25. > :29:25.
:29:25. > :29:29.a lovely day for it. He almost blew his Herald.
:29:29. > :29:37.Half a second quicker this afternoon. By you satisfied with
:29:37. > :29:41.the weekend? I am not satisfied with qualifying. I got held up on
:29:41. > :29:45.two of my best laps. It was frustrating. I missed an
:29:45. > :29:52.opportunity on the best tyre to do a lap time. My time this morning
:29:52. > :29:56.was strong on yesterday's tyre. The pace was good. I had hoped for a
:29:56. > :30:03.stronger qualifying. A little bit disappointing, but stronger than in
:30:03. > :30:10.Mugello. This is your first time here. What do you make of it?
:30:10. > :30:16.quite like the circuit. Whenever the temperature is up, the extra
:30:16. > :30:26.horsepower is not as noticeable because everybody is spinning. I
:30:26. > :30:31.
:30:31. > :30:37.think that is when the -- wide the CRTs are closer. You are not used
:30:37. > :30:46.to the weather after the British championship! I will be fitting a
:30:46. > :30:52.drinks bottle in the, keeping hydrated. It is a big culture shock
:30:52. > :30:57.for me. The heat does not seem to affect me, surprisingly, being a
:30:57. > :31:04.pasty, white guy from Northern Ireland! Colour in your cheeks this
:31:04. > :31:10.afternoon. Thanks. We will see how he gets on tomorrow. A good result
:31:10. > :31:20.for Colin Edwards, 16th. It was tough out there in the heat, I
:31:20. > :31:21.
:31:21. > :31:27.imagine. I am used to it. It is like Texas. Want it you think of
:31:27. > :31:32.the qualifying session? Are you happy? Yes, I mean, it is as fast
:31:32. > :31:37.as we have gone all weekend. This morning, the conditions were better.
:31:37. > :31:43.This afternoon, it is hot, typical Barcelona. When it is hot, it is
:31:43. > :31:47.slippery and greasy and the tyre lasts for a lap and after that it
:31:47. > :31:53.is spinning everywhere. You have one chance to get it right. That is
:31:53. > :31:59.what we did. Then you try to find the gaps in the traffic. How do you
:31:59. > :32:03.find that you qualifying format? like it. I get to watch the riders
:32:03. > :32:12.at the end. The format, I like it because there is less traffic, not
:32:12. > :32:19.that you would know it's just then. It seemed like they were everywhere.
:32:19. > :32:24.We certainly like it. Don't we? certainly do. We have 15 minutes of
:32:24. > :32:28.the top riders and the battle for pole position will be intense. 0.5
:32:28. > :32:33.seconds separated the top eight riders this morning. Track
:32:33. > :32:40.temperature is coming up. There has been a lot of work for them to do.
:32:40. > :32:45.Extra work over lunchtime for the Yamaha team. Jorge Lorenzo pushing
:32:45. > :32:50.the limits. It leaves him in a strange position,
:32:50. > :32:55.a fair way down. Left side of the tyre on the cold as he tipped it in
:32:55. > :33:04.them. It was the slowest corner. Just folded underneath and that was
:33:04. > :33:08.it. There was no damage done. He was a quick. When he went out on
:33:08. > :33:16.the second bike, it was not set up properly. It was a second off.
:33:16. > :33:26.Hopefully, they have got it sorted in time. It is so tight. Three-
:33:26. > :33:28.
:33:28. > :33:33.tenths off, put him in P6. There was a big team effort on
:33:33. > :33:40.Thursday afternoon. This is one of the great sporting arenas in
:33:40. > :33:44.Barcelona but there is a more famous one. The riders took on each
:33:45. > :33:47.other in a game of football. I suppose you can guess who the
:33:47. > :33:57.suppose you can guess who the manager of the MotoGP was. A had to
:33:57. > :34:04.be the boss c'est in the paddock. Bossiest.
:34:04. > :34:11.This is the home of FC Barcelona. The MotoGP riders are pitting their
:34:11. > :34:18.skills against Moto2 and Moto3 boys. There are some out there who
:34:18. > :34:25.literally do not have a clue what they are doing. Bradley has a club
:34:25. > :34:31.foot and has no idea what he is doing. I have no football skills. I
:34:31. > :34:41.have a big heart and try to get in on every tackle. I am not scared to
:34:41. > :34:42.
:34:42. > :34:47.kick a few people and give some shoulder barges. I expected better
:34:47. > :34:57.from you. You played professionally. Yes, obviously I still have my
:34:57. > :34:58.
:34:58. > :35:01.injury. I did not dive, but I had my injury from Le Mans. There was a
:35:01. > :35:07.point when you had to choose between football and motorcycle
:35:07. > :35:11.racing? It was a long time ago. I am rusty. I was happy to stay at
:35:11. > :35:15.the back to look pretty but I could not help but go out there and I was
:35:15. > :35:23.just tackling because my shooting skills were awful. I missed the
:35:23. > :35:33.ball every time. Better to stay at the back and do passing. It was
:35:33. > :35:37.
:35:37. > :35:42.good fun. We had a good game. I am I think Cal Crutchlow made the
:35:42. > :35:48.right choice. He is going out now. He had trials at Coventry City and
:35:48. > :35:52.Northampton Town. I am not sure on the evidence of the skills we saw.
:35:52. > :36:01.Definitely made the right choice. A contender for the front row this
:36:01. > :36:10.afternoon on the evidence of free practice. I would like to see you
:36:10. > :36:15.on a football pitch. I retired from football at the under 12 age. There
:36:15. > :36:17.was no money in them. You could not cheat. When everybody has a ball
:36:17. > :36:27.cheat. When everybody has a ball and you cricket, where is the fun
:36:27. > :36:39.
:36:39. > :36:45.in that? Here we go. After the Marquez. And the rest of the bunch,.
:36:45. > :36:53.Jorge Lorenzo has a new helmet design. He has the man with him
:36:53. > :37:03.this weekend to sorts is -- his head out so he can go out there and
:37:03. > :37:08.
:37:08. > :37:14.race. What was that about? He is cross. He has wrecked two laps.He
:37:14. > :37:18.will go slow and with these riders going fast, he will get in their
:37:18. > :37:22.way. He will not want to go too fast because he will not want take
:37:22. > :37:28.the best out of the first soft option. Not getting what he wanted
:37:28. > :37:35.out of the last turn. At least they are through and clear. He has to
:37:35. > :37:43.leave enough temperature in the tyre as well. If you do not get
:37:43. > :37:49.enough temperature, we all know... Cal Crutchlow, what has he got? He
:37:49. > :37:59.has been fast this weekend. This is the important one. It revolves
:37:59. > :38:22.
:38:23. > :38:31.around this session. 600s -- 600ths. Nothing sounds quite like the Honda.
:38:31. > :38:37.My key Heighton has a -- aborted his lap. -- Nicky Hayden. I have
:38:37. > :38:45.noted how more riders including Lorenzo, are getting off the bike
:38:45. > :38:50.more. That elbow was down... The elbow down is much more to do with
:38:50. > :38:59.whether they drop it or not. It is not to say that Marquez gets a more
:38:59. > :39:06.lean angle. 42.094. 41.8 was the best he did this morning. That was
:39:06. > :39:15.a good opening shot. A lot of them are letting the elbow fall. Marquez
:39:15. > :39:21.always has it up. Dani Pedrosa is on a fast lap. Cal Crutchlow,
:39:21. > :39:26.fastest and stop that is the fastest lap he has done this
:39:26. > :39:31.weekend. Lorenzo is not happy. He is storming of out of the pit
:39:31. > :39:38.garage. He did not cross the line. I do not know whether the bike is
:39:38. > :39:43.not sorted from this morning. That is something. 41.4. The fastest lap
:39:43. > :39:49.we have seen all weekend. I was just about to say Cal Crutchlow had
:39:49. > :39:59.put it in, the fastest this weekend and now Dani Pedrosa, faster than
:39:59. > :39:59.
:39:59. > :40:09.anyone else. What is going on here? There was a problem with that from
:40:09. > :40:23.
:40:23. > :40:33.the start. Marquez caught him not know. It's just cut out, or
:40:33. > :40:34.
:40:34. > :40:37.something, he is saying. That was strange. Marquez, he is a cross the
:40:37. > :40:47.line. If he has enough "I've Had The Time Of My Life", that will
:40:47. > :41:06.
:41:06. > :41:10.done a good or bad lap but you do not do that until you come across
:41:10. > :41:18.the line. This is him among the traffic. Bradley Smith is clinging
:41:18. > :41:27.on to the back of him. This could drag Bradley along. The first split
:41:27. > :41:35.was good for Marquez. The second was not. If you were Marquez, you
:41:35. > :41:45.would probably call this a bad show and have another go. I think he has
:41:45. > :42:16.
:42:16. > :42:25.aborting. Casey Stoner's the best qualifying we have seen was 41.1,
:42:25. > :42:32.way back in 2008 in the era of qualifying tyres.
:42:32. > :42:36.In theory, the softer rear tyre could do the race. It is debatable
:42:36. > :42:46.what they will use tomorrow depending on temperatures. And the
:42:46. > :42:54.data found out today. Dani Pedrosa was thinking about that. That was a
:42:54. > :42:59.good lap. Dani Pedrosa in particular, it could go either way.
:42:59. > :43:04.It will be a big call on a circuit like this in this heat to use these
:43:04. > :43:08.softer tyre and still think you are in the hunt at the end. With high
:43:08. > :43:12.temperatures, often it becomes slippery. It is what their data
:43:12. > :43:16.shows them and what the times showed them not so much in this
:43:16. > :43:24.session but in the free practice, where they had a lot of laps strung
:43:25. > :43:31.together. From that, when they have done third race distance, they can
:43:31. > :43:37.put a picture together of what the tyre will end up like. Rossi put a
:43:37. > :43:46.marker down in fifth place. Our hearts leapt yesterday when he was
:43:47. > :43:51.fastest in free practice two. spoke to Jeremy Burgess this
:43:51. > :43:58.morning just before lunch. Saying what is the plan for this
:43:58. > :44:07.afternoon? He said they do not have plans. He said they have strategy.
:44:07. > :44:12.It sounds better! Normally they say go out of the garage that way and
:44:12. > :44:19.the circuit is that way and put in a fast time. We know from the whole
:44:19. > :44:23.of his career, Valentino Rossi, he has been the ultimate qualifier. --
:44:23. > :44:32.he has been the ultimate racer, but qualifying has not really been his
:44:32. > :44:38.thing. I would have liked to have seen Casey Stoner doing it. Jorge
:44:39. > :44:48.Lorenzo. He moves up to third. He will not be pleased with three-
:44:49. > :44:53.
:44:53. > :45:03.tenths off. It is so quickly over. The front row, Dani Pedrosa, Cal
:45:03. > :45:25.
:45:25. > :45:31.his aggressive style, he nailed the throttle, he fired himself up the
:45:31. > :45:40.hill. This is record book stuff, halfway through the lap. The fastest
:45:41. > :45:46.ever, 41.186. It is really quick. Three quarters of the way through,
:45:47. > :45:56.we are looking at a new record. Casey Stoner, 2008, the
:45:57. > :45:57.
:45:57. > :46:07.record-holder. One more aid, long right-hander. This will be good for
:46:07. > :46:09.
:46:09. > :46:14.Andrea Iannone as well. This is going to be fantastic stuff. A
:46:14. > :46:19.five-year-old record out the window! That is the fastest anybody
:46:19. > :46:24.has ever been around here on two wheels! Andrea Iannone got dragged
:46:24. > :46:34.up to fifth place as well. Put your bikes away, boys, that will be pole
:46:34. > :46:35.
:46:35. > :46:39.position. That is stellar. That confirms it, that is a cracking lap.
:46:39. > :46:49.He will be tapping his time! There is nobody else that can get anywhere
:46:49. > :46:53.near that. Nicky Hayden on another good lap. Alvaro Bautista is OK.
:46:53. > :46:59.Marc Marquez has not found a hole in the traffic. Three minutes left. He
:46:59. > :47:04.is languishing a bit. Nicky Hayden is still looking pretty good, always
:47:04. > :47:12.good for a lap. He thinks the bike is not good for the race distance.
:47:13. > :47:22.We shall see. You can see the determination, the way he is firing
:47:22. > :47:28.the bike into the corners, talking to himself. What is it going to be?
:47:28. > :47:33.Fourth-place. He is the guy who could grin and bear it and squeeze
:47:33. > :47:42.one lap out that is impossible for him the bike. That is a great
:47:43. > :47:46.performance. That is how hard it was! That will do me, he says! That
:47:46. > :47:56.is faster than the time that put him second fastest until then. It is
:47:56. > :47:57.
:47:57. > :48:07.great to see. That is quicker for him, but he stays in 12th place.
:48:07. > :48:07.
:48:07. > :48:17.Bradley Smith doing a sterling job. 11th fastest. This is Marc Marquez,
:48:17. > :48:23.starting a lap. Even the mercurial Marc Marquez, I do not believe, can
:48:24. > :48:32.match Dani Pedrosa. A great performance. Really good for his
:48:32. > :48:42.confidence as well. No quarter asked or given! But even so, he has been
:48:42. > :48:44.
:48:44. > :48:50.tangled up a bit. He is 0.4 off, as is Valentino Rossi. Three quarters
:48:50. > :49:00.of the way through, not what you would expect. Jorge Lorenzo is off
:49:00. > :49:02.
:49:02. > :49:12.as well. Dani Pedrosa, that was a crusher. We know how well he starts
:49:12. > :49:12.
:49:13. > :49:20.anyhow. Marc Marquez, Alan Tino Rossi and Alvaro Bautista... This
:49:20. > :49:25.could be a second-place. It has gone. It disappeared. He is on the
:49:25. > :49:31.second row at the moment. Cal Crutchlow still in second. How about
:49:32. > :49:37.that? Nicky Hayden is right up there, Alvaro Bautista is on the
:49:37. > :49:45.front row of a grid. He had a pole position once. In Silverstone, in
:49:45. > :49:51.chicken dish and is. Valentino Rossi is on the third row at the moment.
:49:51. > :49:56.He is back in seventh place. Not where he wants to be. His team-mate
:49:56. > :50:06.is only on the second row, Jorge Lorenzo, stuck in fourth place.
:50:06. > :50:07.
:50:08. > :50:13.Jorge Lorenzo has been on the front row every race this year. Surely he
:50:13. > :50:21.will get himself on the front row. This one might be. It is looking
:50:21. > :50:29.pretty good. Cal Crutchlow is second quickest. A great job. He is 0.7
:50:29. > :50:35.behind Annie Pedrosa. Marc Marquez! The back wheel came up in the air,
:50:35. > :50:43.and he still hit his apex, I have never seen anybody do that. Jorge
:50:43. > :50:51.Lorenzo must be on his second bike. Yes, second fastest. He has just
:50:51. > :50:56.displaced Cal Crutchlow. 0.6 off, that is how fast Dani Pedrosa went.
:50:56. > :51:04.The first man to take the chequered flag, Jorge Lorenzo. This is quite a
:51:05. > :51:09.good lap from Stephane bridal. lost it in the last sector.
:51:09. > :51:15.Crutchlow has just gone second! Where did that come from? ! He knows
:51:15. > :51:23.it was good! Great stuff from Cal Crutchlow. Taking the chequered
:51:23. > :51:33.flag, what a belter! Nobody can threaten him now. I had quite a long
:51:33. > :51:39.
:51:39. > :51:43.conversation... Aleix Espargaro's time has been taken away. There you
:51:43. > :51:49.go, Dani Pedrosa, Cal Crutchlow, Jorge Lorenzo, that is the front
:51:49. > :51:57.row. A storm King job from Cal Crutchlow, and a screaming lap from
:51:57. > :52:03.Dani Pedrosa. There was a long discussion about how good Cal
:52:03. > :52:08.Crutchlow has become. He did not tear up any trees in his first year,
:52:08. > :52:12.but he has chipped away, he is very good at analysing what is going on
:52:12. > :52:19.and how to make himself faster, and he is the real deal. That is some
:52:19. > :52:28.front row. The fastest man down the straight was Marc Marquez, 342.4
:52:28. > :52:37.kilometres an hour. 213 miles an hour, unbelievably quick. Especially
:52:37. > :52:47.in this heat. The hotter it gets, the engine does not like it. The
:52:47. > :52:47.
:52:47. > :52:51.Dani Pedrosa lap, that is really something else. Jorge Lorenzo should
:52:51. > :52:57.be relieved to make the front row, the way that went, having the crash
:52:57. > :53:04.this morning, then having the clutch problem. It was damage control for
:53:04. > :53:14.him. That is the front row, Dani Pedrosa, Cal Crutchlow and Jorge
:53:14. > :53:22.Lorenzo. Cracking stuff from Alvaro Bautista and Marc Marquez is a bit
:53:22. > :53:27.further back than I figured. thought it was traffic. It looked
:53:27. > :53:36.like he did not really get one clear lap. Valentino Rossi starts on the
:53:36. > :53:46.third row alongside Andrea Iannone and Andrea Dovizioso. Bradley Smith
:53:46. > :53:49.
:53:49. > :53:59.will be on the fourth row. I think Javier del Amor, 48.9... I think
:53:59. > :54:05.
:54:05. > :54:10.that will do it. I think he is a was something very special. Take
:54:10. > :54:15.that! I can still whip out a quick lap when I need to, thinks Dani
:54:16. > :54:25.Pedrosa! He is still bearing the scars from the massive crash in
:54:26. > :54:27.
:54:27. > :54:34.Mugello, terrifying. He did not race, yes. Dani Pedrosa on pole, you
:54:34. > :54:44.will expect to see him make the first corner first. Jorge Lorenzo
:54:44. > :54:45.
:54:45. > :54:54.one Bastia, do not rule him out. is just telling him the time of Dani
:54:54. > :54:58.Pedrosa, he says, are you sure? With just one lap, you can bang in a
:54:58. > :55:03.lap like that. Everything was perfect, and no traffic, but
:55:03. > :55:10.smashing that record that goes back to those days is something else. Cal
:55:10. > :55:15.Crutchlow, the man pushing back against the Spanish Armada, Spain in
:55:15. > :55:21.first place, third place and fourth-place. Cal Crutchlow, second,
:55:21. > :55:25.in the middle of the front row. A belting performance. They will not
:55:25. > :55:33.be letting him slip through their fingers. Yamaha could not do that.
:55:33. > :55:43.What a belting job. Bradley Smith qualifying in 11th place. I bet he
:55:43. > :55:47.
:55:47. > :55:54.stick. That was your main target, I would imagine, the second session?
:55:54. > :55:58.After yesterday, we were struggling a fair bit, I did 44.2, and we are
:55:58. > :56:02.down to 42.5, so I made some good improvements, feeling more
:56:02. > :56:09.confident, and this is where we are apt at the moment. Our tyres are a
:56:09. > :56:19.bit more consistent in the race. A great result for Cal Crutchlow, a
:56:19. > :56:20.
:56:20. > :56:23.really good day. We will see you tomorrow.
:56:23. > :56:30.You are getting stronger and stronger, and incredible last lap,
:56:30. > :56:37.congratulations. I do not care about proving myself to Yamaha. They know
:56:37. > :56:41.we can go fast. We did a good enough job, I have not been on the front
:56:41. > :56:47.row for a while, so I am happy to be there. It will be a big battle
:56:47. > :56:52.tomorrow. There might be eight guys on the same pace. Maybe not as fast
:56:52. > :56:59.as Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo is a bit quicker than today, we will see
:56:59. > :57:05.tomorrow, if we can aim for the top five, that will be great, if I end
:57:05. > :57:10.up on the podium, I will be happy. It will be tough, the conditions are
:57:10. > :57:15.difficult for our bike. The gap to Dani Pedrosa is a lot. But the team
:57:15. > :57:25.has worked great again. We are continuing the way we started the
:57:25. > :57:44.
:57:44. > :57:48.him. What a screamer from Dani can make the bike last. Dani Pedrosa
:57:48. > :57:53.starting on pole position, you are not going to bet against him, he
:57:53. > :57:58.will be going as fast as he can. you were scratching your head, you
:57:58. > :58:03.would think, how did Dani Pedrosa do that? There must be some timing
:58:03. > :58:13.error! He will get to the first corner first, but will he make it to
:58:13. > :58:13.
:58:13. > :58:20.in free practice, and he took out even more fun that over second place
:58:20. > :58:24.in qualifying, sensational. The crowd will hope he can do it
:58:24. > :58:28.tomorrow. Three Barcelona boys going for home glory, and Cal Crutchlow
:58:28. > :58:34.looking for a third successive podium. Find out how he gets on