Brno 2008 Qualifying

It's Qualifying time and the track is looking nice and wet, umbrella's are in abundance in the crowd.
Temp is 13 degrees and there is some light rain.
Nicky Hayden's bikes are sittings riderless in the garage?!?

Nakano looks to be first out of the gates, eager to improve on his quite good times so far this weekend. First few laps and lap times are slowly decreasing,
The MotoGp commentators seem to be remincing about John Hopkins joining them in the commentators box at Laguna Seca, not quite sure I want to know what happened there.

And Capirossi is the first off for the session but manages to get himself back onto the track.
Stoner is back in the pits after 4 laps
de Puniet is off.....again, maybe he could borrow one of Hayden's bikes, although kudos to him as he currently is the top Michelin rider half way through the session. And de Puniet's crash doesn't seem to have disadvantaged him and it looks like most of the other riders are hiding from the rain in the pits anyway.
Toseland is the 3rd one off, his bike suddenly decided it could probably do better without him. Note to Toseland's Bike... You can't.

20 minutes to go and Edwards, Melandri and de Angelis are the only ones out in the rain, which you wonder why they bother coz no-one has improved their laptimes for quiet awhile.

Almost 10 minutes to go and everyone seems to be heading back out.
Commentators are wondering if The annoying little spaniard can put in a "special" lap before the end of the session, I'm quite confident that he can, he is after all very "special".
Still not seeing much of a difference in times, looks like the track has gotten worse throughout the session so the few people that pulled out a couple of good laps at the beginning may have the advantage tomorrow.
Hopkins is finally back out, his last lap was 38 minutes...
And the front row is decided: Stoner, Rossi and Hopkins.

I'm going to have to eat my words from this morning regarding Ant West, not only has he stayed in the top 10, he's managed to go from 9th to 6th, although me thinks it's not going to help his situation for next year (or even tomorrow if the track is dry). It's off to Superbikes for you Westy, that is if they'll have you.

MotoGP LD.