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AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX

Final Qualifying Saturday 18th October 2003

DAVID DE GEA: 23rd 1' 34.246

"Tomorrow I think will be good for me, we have good settings on my bike and I have found a race tyre that I am very happy with. Maybe it will rain tomorrow but for me, I think that's okay."

CHRIS BURNS: 24th 1'34.858

" I am a lot happier with the bike this afternoon, we had a few problems this morning so I am feeling much more confident now for the race. It would seem that the problems with the clutch are finally solved and I ran half race distance in the qualifying session today and everything seemed to work well and I put in some consistent lap times. We tried a new swing arm also and it is much more stable when you come out of the turns.

Overall I'm happy enough and I'm getting faster all the time.
All I want for is to put in some consistent lap times tomorrow and to finish the race for me and the team."

PETER CLIFFORD ­ (Team Manager)

"Great job from the entire team today. All four bikes are running well and both guys are improving their times. If the others would just wait up a minute we'd catch up."