**Spoiler** Qatar MotoGP 1st Prac

[FourWheelDrift]

New track to everyone, but even so ........Xaus fastest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Ruben Xaus SPA d'Antin Ducati 2min 1.309 secs
2. Colin Edwards USA Telefonica Movistar Honda 2min 1.617 secs
3. Sete Gibernau SPA Telefonica Movistar Honda 2min 1.882 secs
4. Carlos Checa SPA Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha 2min 2.744 secs
5. Max Biaggi ITA Camel Honda 2min 3.054 secs
6. Valentino Rossi ITA Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha 2min 3.274 secs
7. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda 2min 3.274 secs
8. John Hopkins USA Team Suzuki 2min 3.301 secs
9. Shinya Nakano JPN Fuchs Kawasaki 2min 3.356 secs
10. Neil Hodgson GBR d'Antin Ducati 2min 3.38 secs
11. Alex Barros BRA Repsol Honda 2min 3.422 secs
12. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati Marlboro 2min 3.615 secs
13. Alex Hofmann GER Fuchs Kawasaki 2min 3.621 secs
14. Makoto Tamada JPN Camel Honda 2min 3.919 secs
15. Troy Bayliss AUS Ducati Marlboro 2min 4.005 secs
16. Marco Melandri ITA Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3 2min 4.265 secs
17. Norick Abe JPN Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3 2min 4.991 secs
18. Yukio Kagayama JPN Team Suzuki 2min 5.062 secs
19. Jeremy McWilliams GBR MS Aprilia 2min 5.442 secs
20. Nobuatsu Aoki JPN Proton Team KR 2min 5.969 secs
21. James Haydon GBR Proton Team KR 2min 6.651 secs
22. James Ellison GBR Harris WCM 2min 7.859 secs

DNQ:
Youichi Ui JPN Harris WCM 2min 10.611 secs

[barry sheene]

I don't envy them a bit, I was out in Qatar before GW2 and it's just too damned hot to ride a bike....on one of the days I was there the temp went up to 55 degs celcius....not comfortable, even without leathers.....

If it were me, I'd crash on the first corner and retire to the air-conditioned hotel

[pesty]

WTF xaus doin up there

only the first qualifing so it will all change i suspect.

I want YuKi to win anyway Rossi second and Edwards third .

[Badapple]

Looks like a mad place, you can see all the deserts & sh:t on some of the angles