Rossi in 4th week from 21th to XNUMXst place
Valentino Rossi admitted that in qualifying for the Doha Grand Prix he was not fast enough to fight for high starting places, and as a result he recorded his worst qualifying achievement in the career of a MotoGP racer. Already on Friday's training sessions, the Italian did not find the right rhythm that would allow him a good enough circle to qualify for the faster qualifying group, so he had to compete with his rivals in Q1, where his best time of 1: 54.881 meant relegation. and the start of the race from the penultimate, 21st place. The Petronas SRT racer won an excellent fourth place with a time of 1: 53.114 a week ago, if he managed to repeat the lap, he would start today's race from second place, as he would be only 0.008 seconds behind the winner of the qualifications, Jorge Martin.