Valentino Rossi was left to rue a series of ‘big problems’ during Saturday's qualifying session at the Sachsenring, with the seven-time Champion unable to place his new Ducati machine any higher than the final row of the grid. The Italian will line up in 16th place at the German venue, his worst starting position since the Dutch TT in 2006.
"Today we obviously had some big problems, or rather we haven’t managed to find a good compromise between the improved traction and acceleration that we’ve achieved with this bike, and front-end confidence, which is still missing," Rossi said after Saturday's qualifying session.
"I’m not able to load the front and make it work like I can with the GP12 engine in the same chassis, which is why we’ve been so slow and are so far back. Naturally, we’re very disappointed, but we really can’t say that we haven’t tested because here we had four sessions with normal weather, and we tried many things.
"We’re thinking about a solution for the coming races in order to resume the positive improving trend that we were on until Barcelona."
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| Pos. | Driver | Team | Time | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  C. Stoner | Repsol Honda | 01:21.681 | 27 |
| 2. | D. Pedrosa | Repsol Honda | 01:21.933 | 32 |
| 3. | J. Lorenzo | Fiat Yamaha | 01:21.944 | 33 |
| 4. | M. Simoncelli | Gresini | 01:21.954 | 31 |
| 5. | B. Spies | Fiat Yamaha | 01:22.056 | 32 |
| 6. | A. Dovizioso | Repsol Honda | 01:22.157 | 34 |
| 7. | C. Edwards | Tech 3 | 01:22.368 | 30 |
| 8. | N. Hayden | Ducati | 01:22.388 | 33 |
| 9. | R. de Puniet | Pramac | 01:22.503 | 31 |
| 10. | A. Bautista | Rizla Suzuki | 01:22.604 | 36 |
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