Monster Yamaha's James Toseland, who ride with a cold at Estoril today, has said his target for the rest of his final season in MotoGP is to grab seventh place in the championship.

The two-time World Superbike winner, who will returns to the series with Sterilgarda in 2010, reckons that he didn't realise how much his cold had taken out of him until he got into the race.

“I really enjoyed that race and it was good to be in an exciting battle with the second group. I was running pretty much the same lap times as Dovizioso and (Toni) Elias for most of the race and there was a great battle between myself, Hayden and Capirossi," said Toseland.

"I was having the most fun in that race that I've had for a while. The difficulty for me was that I've been struggling with a cold all weekend and it is very difficult to take any kind of medication when you've got to race. Over the whole race distance I didn't realise how much the cold had taken out of me but it wasn't a big problem. The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team have worked incredibly hard all weekend to give me a really good package to ride today.

"I'm still only twelve points off seventh in the championship and that is my target now for the remaining three races. I really want that seventh place in the championship and am looking forward to giving the team a good finish to the year.”