Eugene Laverty starts tomorrow's British 250 GP from the fourth row
British GP: Eugene Laverty starts 250 race from 15th
By Rob Hull -
MotoGP
23 June 2007 16:29
British 250cc hopeful Eugene Laverty will line up on the fourth row of the grid for Sunday’s race at Donington aboard his LCR Honda.
The 21-year-old from Ballymena posted a qualifying time of 1.34.489, two seconds off the pole lap of Alex De Angelis.
The San Marino Master Aprilia rider continued his good weekend form to take pole position ahead of championship leader and defending champ Jorge Lorenzo.
The pair were split by just over four tenths of a second with De Angelis’ lap of 1..32.391 being good enough to put him at the top of the field.
Surprise qualifier of the session was Spaniard Julian Simon on the Repsol Honda who came from virtually nowhere in any of the previous sessions to leap up to third in front of this mornings fastest man Alvaro Bautista and KTM’s Mika Kallio.
Andrea Dovizioso dropped down the pecking order to fifth from provisional second yesterday and is joined on the second row by Marco Simoncelli and Hector Barbera.
STANDINGS
1. De Angelis Aprilia 1.32.391
2. Lorenzo Aprilia 1.32.801
3. Simon Honda 1.33.043
4. Bautista Aprilia 1.33.096
5. Kallio KTM 1.33.130
6. Dovizioso Honda 1.33.170
7. Simoncelli Gilera 1.33.179
8. Barbera Aprilia 1.33.209
9. Luthi Honda 1.33.211
10. H Aoyama KTM 1.33.390
11. Takahashi Honda 1.33.555
12. S Aoyama Honda 1.34.026
13. Locatelli Gilera 1.34.046
14. Lai Aprilia 1.34.065
15. Laverty Honda 1.34.489
16. Espagaro Aprilia 1.34.634
GBR
21. Linfoot Aprilia 1.35.448
26. Markham Yamaha 1.38.733
Non qualifiers
Andrew Sawford
Alex Kenshington
Luke Lawrence
