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WSBK: Checa Comes Out Swinging
Carlos Checa and teammate Davide Giugliano led the way in provisional qualifying at the Nurburgring.
Media Release  |  Posted September 07, 2012   Nurburgring (GER)
Team Ducati Altare's Carlos Checa (Photo: Infront Motor Sports)
PROGRAMMING NOTE: The Superbike World Championship round from the Nurburgring, Germany will air on SPEED on Sunday, September 9 starting at 2:00pm and 6:00pm ET.

Carlos Checa and Davide Giugliano from the Althea Racing Ducati team went 1-2 in the first qualifying session at the German round of the eni FIM Superbike World Championship, with Checa enjoying a small but clear four-tenths advantage in his 1 minute 55.307 seconds lap time.

Close behind Giugliano, Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) slotted in third with Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing) making a good jump up to fourth. Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) had a much better time than his teammate, Marco Melandri, with Haslam fifth fastest and Melandri 12th. Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing) was sixth overall.

Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) and Leon Camier (FIXI Crescent Suzuki) provided a cosmopolitan mix of machinery, ensuring that all manufacturers were represented by at least one rider on the front two rows of the provisional grid.

Chaz Davies (ParkinGO MTC Racing Aprilia) was ninth while Lorenzo Zanetti (Pata Racing Team Ducati) rounded out the top ten. Sylvain Guintoli, Zanetti’s teammate, finished one place behind the young Italian, with early faller Melandri recovering to go 12th.

Lorenzo Lanzi (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert) was a late replacement for the outgoing former regular team rider Jakub Smrz in Germany. Lanzi was 21st today, from 24 riders.

Times: 1. Checa (Ducati) 1'55.307 average 160.382 kph; 2. Giugliano (Ducati) 1'55.750; 3. Sykes (Kawasaki) 1'55.802; 4. Laverty (Aprilia) 1'55.813; 5. Haslam (BMW) 1'55.828; 6. Biaggi (Aprilia) 1'55.838; 7. Rea (Honda) 1'55.891; 8. Camier (Suzuki) 1'55.949; 9. Davies (Aprilia) 1'56.399; 10. Zanetti (Ducati) 1'56.461; 11. Guintoli (Ducati) 1'56.465; 12. Melandri (BMW) 1'56.497; 13. Baz (Kawasaki) 1'56.981; 14. Badovini (BMW) 1'57.024; 15. Fabrizio (BMW) 1'57.077; 16. Canepa (Ducati) 1'57.434; etc.
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