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World Superbike
WSBK: Guintoli Splashes To Provisional Pole
Sylvain Guintoli edged Tom Sykes in Friday's World Superbike qualifying session held at a wet Assen circuit.
Ducati Effenbert Liberty Racing's Sylvain Guintoli (Photo: Infront Motor Sports)
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Round 3 of the Superbike World Championship from Assen, Netherlands will air back-to-back on SPEED Sunday, April 22 starting at 5:00pm ET.
Sylvain Guintoli (Ducati Effenbert Liberty Racing) set the quickest time in this afternoon’s first qualifying session at Assen, which was finally conditioned by bad weather.
The riders first went out on slicks but soon after it began to rain, making the track slippery and holding back ultimate lap times. The competitors just about managed to get back to the pits in reasonable conditions and then just a few riders ventured out at the end in the wet.
Guintoli was a fraction of a second ahead of Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team), with an impressive Leon Camier (Crescent FIXI Suzuki) and championship leader Carlos Checa (Ducati Althea Racing) completing the provisional front row.
Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) was fifth ahead of Michel Fabrizio (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet), the first BMW runner in the timesheets. Even in these difficult weather conditions, five different manufacturers are in the top six positions.
Two more BMWs were next up, Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad) in eighth ahead of Ayrton Badovini with the Italian team’s S1000RR. Melandri had been fastest in the first practice session in the morning, run in dry conditions.
Team Effenbert Liberty Racing Ducati rider Maxime Berger was ninth fastest, Chaz Davies (MTC ParkinGO Aprilia) rounded out the top ten. The factory Aprilia machine of Eugene Laverty ended up one place behind Davies.
With the top 16 positions likely to stay the same should it rain in tomorrow morning’s final session, the first rider to be excluded will be Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing). The Italian has to hope for an improvement in the weather otherwise he will be forced to start from the fifth row of the grid.
Times: 1. Guintoli S. (FRA) Ducati 1098R 1'37.600; 2. Sykes T. (GBR) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'37.630; 3. Camier L. (GBR) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1'38.468; 4. Checa C. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 1'38.665; 5. Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'38.873; 6. Fabrizio M. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 1'39.062; 7. Badovini A. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 1'39.125; 8. Melandri M. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 1'39.127; 9. Berger M. (FRA) Ducati 1098R 1'39.286; 10. Davies C. (GBR) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'39.362; 11. Laverty E. (IRL) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'39.485; 12. Smrz J. (CZE) Ducati 1098R 1'39.605; 13. Hopkins J. (USA) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1'39.625; 14. Haslam L. (GBR) BMW S1000 RR 1'39.770; 15. McCormick B. (CAN) Ducati 1098R 1'39.915; 16. Salom D. (ESP) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'40.124; etc.
Sylvain Guintoli (Ducati Effenbert Liberty Racing) set the quickest time in this afternoon’s first qualifying session at Assen, which was finally conditioned by bad weather.
The riders first went out on slicks but soon after it began to rain, making the track slippery and holding back ultimate lap times. The competitors just about managed to get back to the pits in reasonable conditions and then just a few riders ventured out at the end in the wet.
Guintoli was a fraction of a second ahead of Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team), with an impressive Leon Camier (Crescent FIXI Suzuki) and championship leader Carlos Checa (Ducati Althea Racing) completing the provisional front row.
Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) was fifth ahead of Michel Fabrizio (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet), the first BMW runner in the timesheets. Even in these difficult weather conditions, five different manufacturers are in the top six positions.
Two more BMWs were next up, Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad) in eighth ahead of Ayrton Badovini with the Italian team’s S1000RR. Melandri had been fastest in the first practice session in the morning, run in dry conditions.
Team Effenbert Liberty Racing Ducati rider Maxime Berger was ninth fastest, Chaz Davies (MTC ParkinGO Aprilia) rounded out the top ten. The factory Aprilia machine of Eugene Laverty ended up one place behind Davies.
With the top 16 positions likely to stay the same should it rain in tomorrow morning’s final session, the first rider to be excluded will be Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing). The Italian has to hope for an improvement in the weather otherwise he will be forced to start from the fifth row of the grid.
Times: 1. Guintoli S. (FRA) Ducati 1098R 1'37.600; 2. Sykes T. (GBR) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'37.630; 3. Camier L. (GBR) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1'38.468; 4. Checa C. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 1'38.665; 5. Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'38.873; 6. Fabrizio M. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 1'39.062; 7. Badovini A. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 1'39.125; 8. Melandri M. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 1'39.127; 9. Berger M. (FRA) Ducati 1098R 1'39.286; 10. Davies C. (GBR) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'39.362; 11. Laverty E. (IRL) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'39.485; 12. Smrz J. (CZE) Ducati 1098R 1'39.605; 13. Hopkins J. (USA) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1'39.625; 14. Haslam L. (GBR) BMW S1000 RR 1'39.770; 15. McCormick B. (CAN) Ducati 1098R 1'39.915; 16. Salom D. (ESP) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'40.124; etc.
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