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Rossi confident for Saturday's race

Valentino Rossi scored the pole position for the opening Grand Prix of Qatar today. The Italian Yamaha rider was extremely pleased with such a start of the 2007 MotoGP season.

"It's great to have my first pole of the season at the very first race and it's extra special for me because it's pole number 46 of my career!" said Rossi. "I hope this is a good omen for tomorrow. I'm really happy for this pole position because everyone has worked so hard; all my mechanics, engineers, Michelin…everyone involved. Yamaha has built us a great bike.

"Anyway tomorrow is another day and the real race, but we're starting from first and also Colin is on the front row too so I hope we can put in a good Yamaha show! We have a couple of things to check in morning practice but we're more or less ready.

"I think tomorrow there are three or four riders who can fight at the top with Colin and me, but we're feeling confident in our garage."

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