McWilliams claims provisional Brno sixth

He may have been giving away almost 15mph to the top men, but that didn’t stop Jeremy McWilliams from claiming provisional sixth in MotoGP qualifying at Brno today.

The Ulsterman lines up alongside Alex Barros, Garry McCoy and Tohru Ukawa on the provisional second row behind poleman Valentino Rossi, a resurgent Max Biaggi, Daijiro Kato on the third RCV V5 behind him, with Sete Gibernau on the last front row spot.

1)V Rossi 2)M Biaggi 3)D Kato 4)S Giberbau 5)A Barros 6)J McWIlliams 7) G McCoy 8)T Ukawa 9)C Checa 10)L Capirossi 11)N Abe 12)S Nakano 13)T Harada 14)J Hopkins 15)K Roberts 16)N Aoki 17)R Laconi 18)J van de Goorbergh 19)O Jacque 20)A Ryo 21)S Guintoli 22)P Riba

250 qualifying:

1)F Nieto 2)S Porto 3)M Melandri 4)T Elias 5)R Locatelli 6)R Rolfo 7)R de Puniet 8)F Battaini 9)N Matsudo 10)H Aoki 11)S Yuzy 12)R Waldmann 13)J Vincent 14)R Jara 15)D Garcia 16)D Checa 17)H Marchand 18)C Stoner 19)L Haslam 20)A Debon 21)D Heidolf 22)E Nigon 23)H Faubel 24)J Hules 25)G Rizmayer 26)V Castka 27)H Lagemaat 28)R Rous

125 Qualifying:

1)P Nieto 2)D Pedrosa 3)A Vincent 4)S Sanna 5)G Talmasci 6)L Cecchinello 7)M Poggiali 8)A de Angelis 9)M Giansanti 10)T Luthi 11)S Jenckner 12)M Azuma 13)J Olive 14) M Sabbatani 15)S Bianco 16)Y Ui 17)M Kallio 18)G Borsoi 19)S Perugini 20)A Dovizioso 21)K Hules 22)H Barbera 23)M Simoncelli 24)L Pesek 25)M Fabrizio 26)C Davies 27)A Ballerini 28)D Giuseppetti 29)G Pellino 30)C Pistoni 31)M Angeloni 32)R Harms 33)I Kalab 34)M Smrz