MotoGP World Championship leader Valentino Rossi said his front row start at Misano was critical to boost his prospects of challenging for victory in front of his partisan fans. Rossi clinched the clinched the final place on the front row with a lap of 1m 32.358s at the Marco Simoncelli Circuit, which left him trailing his Movistar Yamaha team-mate and pole man Jorge Lorenzo by 0.212 seconds. Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez is the meat in the Yamaha sandwich on row one and Rossi was relieved to make it into the top three at the expense of Dani Pedrosa, who heads up the second row. “As always, it is very important to start from the front row because usually at the beginning of the race Jorge...
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