Kagayama joined his Suzuki team mate Max Neukirchner on the front row of the grid at Valencia, the Suzuki pair really hitting form at the tight and twisty Spanish track.
The races though, for both Kagayama and the teams other rider Nieto, were full of bad luck.
Kagayama was running strongly in the first encounter before a nasty looking crash wrecked his hopes and also his number one bike.
This forced the Japanese ex BSB race winner to run a spare bike for the second race and though he ran as high as third, the likeable 'Yuki' fell back to sixth at the chequered flag.
"I am not happy. Throughout the weekend everything has gone well and there have been no problems really," he revealed.
"I don't know why I crashed in the first race, but because it happened so suddenly I think I must have hit some water or oil on the track. I had braked normally and then I was on the floor!
"I had to use my spare bike in race two and the feeling was not good. The grip went away after five or six laps and after ten laps my front tyre was destroyed, so the bike became very difficult to ride."
First round winner Nieto struggeld with a lack of grip all weekend and was unable to match his team-mates pace in qualifying.
Other riders misfortune allowed the Spaniard to finish fourth in the first race but for the second event the former 250cc GP race winner could manage no better than tenth.
"You get weekends like this in racing, but I was able to stay on the bike and collect some points," admitted Nieto.
Today I had the same grip problems I've had all weekend, but I tried my best even though there was no front or rear grip. I think if I had pushed harder, I would've crashed."
Nieto continues to sit second in the points chart, albeit nearly two round victories behind
Troy Bayliss.
