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Shinya Nakano
“I made a good start and overtook a couple of riders on the first lap. With the hot conditions the pace was not so fast, so I could stay with the group but the problem came after just five laps. It felt like the engine was suffering from a lack of performance and it felt like it locked-up once. The engine was still running so I tried to come back at the riders ahead, but the problem returned. Finally power was dropping off with every lap, so I retired with 11 laps to go. It’s a big shame as our tyre choice was good so we have been unlucky. I’m hoping that we will finally get the result we deserve at Laguna next week.

CHECA
: “I don’t know what happened, the crash was a surprise. I arrived at turn 12, a little on the inside, and just lost the front-end. Apart from the crash the bike feeling today was not as fluid as in practice but was OK. With this new chassis we have been making a lot of changes, even for the warm-up this morning. It is difficult to understand this situation but now we must stay positive and look ahead to the USGP next weekend

KURTIS ROBERTS
The thing wasn't quite as perky on the acceleration as it should have been, I thought. Maybe we had a little bit of a clutch slip problem or something. We just hung in there and did what we could do really and let everyone fall off around us and ended up getting 12th. We got more points for the team and that's important for these guys. And now I'm really looking forward to Laguna Seca, just because I know the track