Jorge Lorenzo dethrones Rossi in Mugello

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2009-05-30 Jorge Lorenzo dethrones Rossi in Mugello
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Jorge Lorenzo prepares for qualifying in Mugello

Jorge Lorenzo took another pole position, this time on the territory of his team-mate, Valentino Rossi. Not only that Rossi lost pole position in qualifying session in which he spent most of the time on the first position, but he also ended it in 4th place, which may be deciding factor about his potential 8th consecutive Mugello victory. Casey Stoner struggled most of the session to find right race set-up, but at least for qualifying he got it right, finishing session in 2nd position, just 0.027 seconds behind Lorenzo. Loris Capirossi was best Italian rider in 3rd position, just in front of Italian favorite, Valenitno Rossi. Randy De Puniet recovered from off-track excursion to grab solid 5th place on the grid. Colin Edwards took attention in first part of the qualifying, but second part of the session saw American fading to 6th place.

Andrea Dovizioso was unable to perform better than 7th, but he definitely had less problems than his team-mate, Dani Pedrosa. Pedrosa spent most of the session on the back of the time sheets, having big problems to find right race set-up. Pedrosa eventually qualified 8th, but race-pace still remains to be solved for Spanish rider. Toni Elias took 9th position on the grid, while Yuki Takahashi completed top 10 qualifiers on Italian circuit.

Mugello qualifying - complete results

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