Saturday, 12th April 2008

Valentino Rossi aims to fight for his first ever Bridgestone victory in Sunday's Portuguese Grand prix, after qualifying on the front row for the very first time with the Japanese rubber.

"Valentino and his Yamaha team have done an outstanding job to get third place using our qualifying tyres this afternoon," admitted Bridgestone's Tohru Ubukata. "This is our first front row result of the season so far, but looking at the timesheets, we can see that we need to advance our rate of qualifying tyre development. Casey and John were the only other riders on our tyres to get top ten results today, so we have to work harder. On Monday, during the post-race test here in Estoril, we have a range of new rear qualifying compounds and constructions to test which we hope will bring some of the desired improvements."

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