Hayden trailing Movistars, Biaggi warned.

Repsol Honda's Nicky Hayden secured a promising front row start for tomorrow's inaugural Turkish Grand Prix while team-mate Max Biaggi had a harder day - posting the 12th fastest time and being warned to watch out at turn one.

Although third on the grid, Hayden was lacking a worrying half a second to the slowest of the Movistar Honda riders, Marco Melandri - whom Hayden is currently tied for with second in the points - while pole man Sete Gibernau was a further 0.129secs ahead.

"Things are slowly coming better. The Movistar boys came out early and really jumped on the pace early and got going fast," confessed Nicky. "Sure it's nice to be on the front row for tomorrow, but I've got a few problems with a couple of sections of the track where I'm losing a lot of time so I'm not satisfied by any means with my set-up or my riding.

"I'm not as clean and smooth as I need to be. We've got one more session to try to get things right. It's one thing to ride at a new track and try and go for a good lap time, it's quite another thing to see what happens in the race for the first time," he added.

Meanwhile Biaggi, who will line up for his 200th consecutive grand prix start tomorrow - an all-time record in GP racing, was left the slowest of the seven RCV riders, having lapped over 2secs from pole.

"Obviously not at all satisfied with the results of the last two days," began Max. "We just can't seem to get a good balance for the machine round here at all. We've tried a lot of things but in the end we still don't have a balanced bike. The front is too light and we still struggle for grip in places.

"The qualifying tyres only really work when the bike is set-up well. Sometimes when you put qualifiers on a bike that is not set-up properly then it becomes even harder to ride. I really need to finish the race tomorrow. The last two races have been a disaster and I'll be fighting hard tomorrow for the points and honour in the championship," he declared.

"It is satisfying to see an all-Honda front row. It is a long time since this happened," admitted Repsol Honda team manager Makoto Tanaka. "Nicky has done a good job and it is great to see him on the front row again. He still has much work to do on his race pace but at least he is in the best place for the start of the race.

"Max has had trouble all weekend to find the best set-up and is down on speed. He has to be careful at the start of the race as turn one on the first lap will be very hard. It'll be an interesting race for sure," he added.