Elias eleventh, brave Guintoli fourteenth

Having hurt himself in an incredible practice crash on Saturday Sylvain Guintoli rode through the pain with a damaged left shoulder and battled back from an early run-off to finish fourteenth at Phillip Island. His team-mate Toni Elias, meanwhile, was eleventh in the Australian MotoGP contest.

Toni Elias - eleventh

`It was really hard, we had a tyre problem. Then I didn´t start too well and this complicated the situation even more. After a few laps I got yesterday´s rhythm back and that allowed me to win back some time. If I had had one more lap I would have probably had the opportunity to overtake at least a couple of riders who were in front of me. It´s a pity. I will try to make it up in Malaysia on a track that I really like.´

Sylvain Guintoli - twelfth

`I had a lot of pain today and I didn´t know if I would finish the race. Then, on the second corner, I made a mistake due to some confusion on the track. I went wide and lost a lot of time. However, with Chris Vermeulen, who also went off track, we maintained a good rhythm gaining back a lot of time. I knew that on the final straight my Ducati was really fast and therefore I decided to attack on the last lap to gain a position. I made it and for how this weekend went I can consider myself satisfied with the final position.´