Althea Racing Ducati's Davide Giugliano (Photo: Infront Motor Sports)
PROGRAMMING NOTE: The Brno round of the Superbike World Championship from will air back-to-back on SPEED on Sunday, July 22 starting at 4:00pm ET.
Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing Ducati) improved on his morning time to also head up the first qualifying session at Brno, setting a time of 1 minute 59.452 seconds before rains arrived at an inopportune moment, then falling heavier at the end of the session.
Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) went second quickest, Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing) was third, with Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) into the top four and placing four different machines into the top four places in the process.
Fifth place so far went to Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati), with local favorite Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing-Team Effenbert) scoring sixth on his vee-twin.
Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet) and his teammate, Michel Fabrizio, posted similar times to take them into the top eight places. The constantly learning Chaz Davies (ParkinGO MTC Racing Aprilia) was ninth, Leon Haslam 10th on his BMW Motorrad Motorsport bike and Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) 11th. The top 11 riders were within a second of each other, and John Hopkins (FIXI Crescent Suzuki) was only 1.075 seconds from provisional pole and the first Suzuki in the rankings, 12th.