Mission accomplished for top Yamaha Nakano.
D'Ant?n Yamaha star Shinya Nakano finished an impressive fifth fastest in the final qualifying session for the Africa's GP, having been as high as third heading into the final minute.
During that time, Biaggi then Capirossi consigned him to fifth, although only 0.370secs from the pole position of Sete Gibernau. That gave Nakano the humour of being top Yamaha, even though his machine doesn't have all the parts available to Carlos Checa and Alex Barros.
D'Ant?n Yamaha star Shinya Nakano finished an impressive fifth fastest in the final qualifying session for the Africa's GP, having been as high as third heading into the final minute.
During that time, Biaggi then Capirossi consigned him to fifth, although only 0.370secs from the pole position of Sete Gibernau. That gave Nakano the humour of being top Yamaha, even though his machine doesn't have all the parts available to Carlos Checa and Alex Barros.
"I'm very happy, I've reached my target that was finishing as the best Yamaha," said the Japanese. "This morning things were difficult, because of the (wheel) 'spinning', but after changing the set up, everything gone well this afternoon. Tomorrow I will try to fight for a podium finish, Welkom is a track I like very much."
"We have finished as best Yamaha even though we don't yet have the latest parts from Yamaha, but if we continue in this direction and working this way these parts should come. Shinya has performed very well and we have good expectations for tomorrow," said Team Owner Luis D'Antin.
