Valentino Rossi will defend an 18-point MotoGP championship lead from just seventh on the grid in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix. Both Rossi and title rival Jorge Lorenzo suffered their worst qualifying results since Indianapolis, six rounds ago. For Lorenzo that still meant a front row start in third, while Movistar Yamaha team-mate Rossi lines-up on row three of the grid. “A difficult day for me,” Rossi said. “This morning I start quite well and was quite strong, but after we try to modify and improve but in general we don't find anything very interesting. So we arrived a bit in trouble for qualifying and my qualifying was not good enough.” The Italian lapped 0.650s behind Marc...
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