MotoGP News
Date: 7/July/2012
Casey Stoner overcame an engine problem and slippery conditions to claim a wet MotoGP pole position at the Sachsenring in Germany.
The Repsol Honda rider won an exciting contest to take his fourth pole of the year on the very final lap of a frantic one hour session. Yamaha’s Ben Spies and Stoner’s team-mate Dani Pedrosa will join the Australian on the front row.
“We weren’t happy with the set-up at the start of the session on my number two bike, so we switched to my number one bike and immediately it was better,” Stoner explained.
“I matched my best lap time on the first lap. The next lap was going to be even better, but the engine just switched off. As far as we know it’s electrical, maybe to do with all the rain.
“By the time I got back to the garage to get back on the second bike it had started to rain really heavily again. I said to my chief mechanic, we’ll wait until the last ten minutes and see what we can do.
“We timed it well enough and got pole position right at the end there. We’re happy after quite a hectic session and it was nice to come out to top.”
Stoner will start round eight equal with Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo at the head of the standings. Lorenzo qualified fifth on the grid.
Looking to Sunday, Stoner said: “To be honest I’m really tired of my last season in MotoGP being full of wet sessions, so it’d be nice to have a dry race.
“This track dries quite quickly because it’s on a hill, but you also get a lot of streams running across the track. So it’s easy to aqua plane and crash if it is raining.
“We’ll wait and see for Sunday. It looks like we’ve got the same weather as the F1 at Silverstone!”
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