First Qualifying at Valencia

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VALENCIA GRAND PRIX

First Qualifying - Friday 31st October 2003

DAVID DE GEA: 22nd 1'37.678

"I like this track very much and know it well. The bike is going better then at the last race in Australia and I'm sure I can improve on my time again tomorrow. I made some small mistakes in this session, but I will push more tomorrow and improve my time."

CHRIS BURNS: DNS ­ Broken Collarbone in Free Practice

"I am gutted, it's been an absolutely disastrous Season for me and now it's all over. It's unbelievable really, that I crashed how I did this morning. I was coming out of the corner onto the straight, the bike was upright and feeling good, no sliding or spinning in the wet conditions. I gassed it up a bit and I was thrown off and ended up breaking my collarbone, the same break that I had in Donington this year.

Its happened now, I just have to deal with it and hope that David does well this weekend for our team."

PETER CLIFFORD ­ (Team Manager)

"Chris has had brilliant luck this year it was bound to run out eventually, NOT. It's bad for him to miss the last race of the Season.

A good effort from Dave and we have a few tweaks to pull which might give him some more horsepower tomorrow and move him further up the grid."