Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa has said he doesn't know why he hit the deck going into the Southern Loop half-way through the Phillip Island MotoGP qualifying session, he says he just hit the front brake and went down.

Pedrosa picked himself off the floor and went back to the pits for his second bike, managing to get in a run of quick laps that secured a front-row start for tomorrow's race in Australia.

“I’m pleased to be on the front row because it’s always good to have a clear track ahead of you at the start of the race - and especially since it came after I had quite a big crash in qualifying. It was at high speed on the way into Turn Two so it’s a relief that I wasn’t injured and I was able go straight back out on track for the second half of the session. I’m not sure yet why I fell - I just touched the brake and boom - I was down.

We’ll take a look at the data and try to find out exactly what happened. For tomorrow we’ll work on finding a little something in terms of pace to allow us to compete for the win because the riders in front are going quickly. It will be a long race tomorrow so we’ll need to be fully concentrated - and of course it will be important to see what the weather does.”
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