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Alice team expected more from qualifying

Alice Team rider, Toni Elias, didn't manage maintain the same position obtained in the first day of work in Shanghai, where he finished in eleventh position, finishing today's qualifying session in fifteenth. Meanwhile Sylvain Guintoli also failed to improve his lap times from practice and ended up seventeenth. 

"Maybe we wanted too much today," said technical director Fabiano Sterlacchini. "We had found a good compromize that allowed us to have a good race set up, but for the qualifying session maybe we changed too much ruining our lap times. Anyway the race rhythm has improved compared to the previous races. The distance from the firsts is sensibly lower even if we still have a lot of work to do. If the track will be dry tomorrow, I believe Toni can do well."

Toni Elias commented, "I am not happy with fifteenth position, but I know that I have good race rhythm, surely with a lower distance to the fastest riders, not like in the firsts three races. It will be very important to start well, if I'll do so we can obtain a good result. This weekend we are surely enjoying racing much more, but we still have to improve to climb the classification."

Sylvain Guintoli added, "What to say, sincerely I expected much more. We started well in the afternoon, but when I tried to push the bike hard to improve, things don't go as expected. It isn't an easy situation, but the only solution we have is to work more and more. Tomorrow, it seems that it will be raining. I can't hide this could be a small advantage for me right now, as I enjoy racing with wet track, but I also want to be competitive with dry track conditions."

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