 The second row of the grid consists out of Shinya Nakano on the Kawasaki in fourth, Loris Capirossi in fifth and Marco Melandri in sixth position.Rossi meanwhile only managed to qualify a lowly tenth and thus was down on the fourth row of the grid.Another rookie - Casey Stoner - would not participate in the race due to a concussion he sustained after a crash earlier that day during the warm-up practice.