2007 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Sachsenring, Germany July 13, 2007 Provisional Qualifying Results (all on KTM 125s): 1. Cristian TRABALON, SPA, 1:32.465 2. Daniel KARTHEININGER, GER, 1:32.947 3. Robert GULL, SWE, 1:33.120 4. Lorenzo SAVADORI, ITA, 1:33.153 5. Cyril CARRILLO, FRA, 1:33.163 6. Luis SALOM, SPA, 1:33.170 7. Lucy GLÖCKNER, GER, 1:33.252 8. Sturla FAGERHAUG, NOR, 1:33.556 9. Johann ZARCO, FRA, 1:33.583 10. Matthew HOYLE, GBR, 1:33.804 11. Cameron BEAUBIER, USA, 1:33.822 12. Markus REITERBERGER, GER, 1:33.832 13. Jamie MOSSEY, GBR, 1:33.923 14. Peter SEBESTYEN, HUN, 1:34.225 15. Lukas SEMBERA, CZE, 1:34.344 16. Adam BLACKLOCK, GBR, 1:35.123 17. J.D. BEACH, USA, 1:35.349 18. Christoph SCHÖNBERGE, GER, 1:35.952 19. Javier CHOLBI, SPA, 1:36.379 20. Stuart MITCHELL, GBR, 1:36.672 Not qualified (Out 107%) 1:38.937 21. Kevin SÁNCHEZ, SPA, 1:40.586 22. Kris TURNER, USA, 1:40.713 23. Deane BROWN, GBR, 1:41.140 More, from a press release issued by Red Bull: Red Bull Moto GP Rookies Cup 2007 Sachsenring/ Qualifying. Round 5 in Germany. Zarco and Savadori again and 3 German rookies top ten! After a thrilling day’s practice Frenchman Johann Zarco sits on pole position ahead of arch rival and championship leader Lorenzo Savadori. Completing the front row are American Cameron Beaubier and Spain’s Christian Trabalon. Practice at Sachsenring in Northern Germany for the fifth round of the eight race Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup was blessed with a dry track all day. Thanks to only minor falls twenty three Rookies will line up for Saturday’s race at 16:15. “That was great said Zarco,” I have to thank my mechanic and the WP engineer. Some changes to the rear suspension after the first session really helped and I could go quicker and quicker as I got more confident with the track. I have just got to try and make a good start tomorrow and try to hang on to the lead.” concluded the Frenchman who lies second in the championship chase. “That was so much fun,” said Beaubier, “It’s a great track but slippery, I was sliding around everywhere. It is not easy to get it right, especially the first section. It is so tight and all the corners are close together, you just have to be on the right line.” Second Qualifier Savadori agreed that the track demanded a lot. “I like it but it is not easy to get right. For me the hardest thing is that a lot of the fast corners have blind exits, going in you just do not know how much track there is to use.” The morning non qualifying session was shortened to twenty minutes because of track cleaning and was even shorter for American Cameron Beaubier whose bike stopped at the end of lap one. That still left two thirty minute timed session in the afternoon. In the first session three of the Germans were setting the early pace; Lucy Gloeckner, Markus Reiterberger and Daniel Kartheininger. Fellow countryman Christoph Schönberger was more cautious, back on the bike after recovering from the broken left collarbone he sustained in a mountain bike accident. Deane Browne fell early in the first afternoon session due to mechanical problems, something that he had also done in the morning and banged his right elbow both times. Another early afternoon faller was Assen podium man Kris Turner. “I tried to go around Mossey and he was late turning in so I lost the front trying to keep it on the track going up the hill,” said the American, dusty but unhurt. As the pace quickened it was Gloeckner and Spaniard Cristian Trabalon pushing things along closely followed by Johann Zarco and Spain’s Luis Salom. With eight minutes remaining Trabalon became the first rider into the 1m 32 second bracket and really set the standard. With less than five minutes to go Kartheininger was second fastest but crashed trying to make up the half second deficit to Trabalon. Further down the field Czech Lukas Sembera also fell.