Monster Yamaha's James Toseland reckons that softening his suspension setup from morning warm-up helped him to push through to equal his best MotoGP result of sixth at today's Indianapolis race.

The two-time World Superbike Champion didn't have much feel from the bike this morning, but some adjustments enabled him to push through the field and finish one place behind team-mate Colin Edwards.

"It's very pleasing to finish in the top six, I know I'm capable of these sort of results and need to be doing it very weekend. It was an entertaining race for me, pushing my way through from tenth on the opening lap and today I don't think I lost any friends doing that," said the Yorkshireman.

"Later in the race I had a great battle with Marco Melandri until he made a mistake with two laps go, I thought it would be a fight right to the end with him. I didn't have good feeling in the warm-up so I was little worried for the race but we softened the bike up a little and I was able to keep my pace fr om qualifying.

"Melandri was really strong in turns one and two but i just kept covering my line, kept my head down and kept pushing. Now I'm really looking forward to Misano next week, a track I know very well from Superbikes."