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World Superbike
WSBK: Super Sykes Scoops Seventh Superpole
Kawasaki Racing Team's Tom Sykes struck for his seventh Superpole victory of the '12 season today at Brno.
Kawasaki Racing Team's Tom Sykes (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.
A much delayed finish to the Tissot-Superpole session, due to an oil spill and the time required to clean up the track afterwards, saw Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) take pole for the seventh time this season. His winning lap time of 1 minute 58.010 was a new best lap.
The final running of Tissot-Superpole 2 was declared wet and thus the top 12 riders who had made it through to that stage battled it out in a 20-minute session, which ended in dry conditions. Second fastest after the delays was Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) with the front row completed by Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) and Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing Ducati). Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) was fifth and Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) sixth.
Tom Sykes: “I’m very happy to take pole again but I’d swap this for 25 points in the championship any day of the week! It’s fair to say that Kawasaki have got the sheer speed in this championship and it’s no secret we still need to work on the balance of the bike for the race, but this is coming and today we made the best of the situation.”
Carlos Checa: “For us this is a track that is quite difficult so to be in second place fills me with confidence for tomorrow. The team did a great job, basically we found a really good set-up in Aragon and moving to here, it’s working well again. We’ll try and do our race and see what happens. The championship is still open and we’ll be trying our best until the end.”
Eugene Laverty: “It’s been a good weekend for us so far, we’ve been on the chart from the first practice session and to be on the front row is the most important thing here. We’ve been working strong for the races tomorrow, we’re not sure about tyre life but it’ll be the same for everyone. Brno is a circuit where I’ve struggled at in the past so this is a good result.”
Championship leader Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing) missed out on qualifying beyond Superpole 1 and will therefore start from 14th place on the grid. Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) put in a seventh place performance and alongside him on the second row of the grid will be Michel Fabrizio (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet) who took the last place on the second row.
Chaz Davies (ParkinGO MTC Racing Aprilia) secured a top nine place, with Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert) inside the top ten at his home round, despite a fall in the first attempt at running Superpole 2.
A great privateer ride from team Pedercini Kawasaki rider David Salom put him 11th, although both he and Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet) were both involved in the Superpole 2 crash that claimed four riders, damaging their bikes so badly that they could not continue in the ‘wet’ Superpole 2 that decided the final grid places for the top 12 riders.
Times: 1. Sykes (Kawasaki) 1'58.010 average 164.823 kph; 2. Checa (Ducati) 1'58.470; 3. Laverty (Aprilia) 1'58.741; 4. Giugliano (Ducati) 1'58.789; 5. Melandri (BMW) 1'58.885; 6. Rea (Honda) 1'59.560; 7. Haslam (BMW) 1'59.583; 8. Fabrizio (BMW) 1'59.621; 9. Davies (Aprilia) 1'59.748; 10. Smrz (Ducati) 1'59.871; 11. Salom (Kawasaki) 1'59.279; 12. Badovini (BMW) 1'59.154; 13. Camier (Suzuki) 1'59.439; 14. Biaggi (Aprilia) 1'59.453; 15. Baz (Kawasaki) 1'59.627; 16. Hopkins (Suzuki) 1'59.973; etc.
A much delayed finish to the Tissot-Superpole session, due to an oil spill and the time required to clean up the track afterwards, saw Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) take pole for the seventh time this season. His winning lap time of 1 minute 58.010 was a new best lap.
The final running of Tissot-Superpole 2 was declared wet and thus the top 12 riders who had made it through to that stage battled it out in a 20-minute session, which ended in dry conditions. Second fastest after the delays was Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) with the front row completed by Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) and Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing Ducati). Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) was fifth and Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) sixth.
Tom Sykes: “I’m very happy to take pole again but I’d swap this for 25 points in the championship any day of the week! It’s fair to say that Kawasaki have got the sheer speed in this championship and it’s no secret we still need to work on the balance of the bike for the race, but this is coming and today we made the best of the situation.”
Carlos Checa: “For us this is a track that is quite difficult so to be in second place fills me with confidence for tomorrow. The team did a great job, basically we found a really good set-up in Aragon and moving to here, it’s working well again. We’ll try and do our race and see what happens. The championship is still open and we’ll be trying our best until the end.”
Eugene Laverty: “It’s been a good weekend for us so far, we’ve been on the chart from the first practice session and to be on the front row is the most important thing here. We’ve been working strong for the races tomorrow, we’re not sure about tyre life but it’ll be the same for everyone. Brno is a circuit where I’ve struggled at in the past so this is a good result.”
Championship leader Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing) missed out on qualifying beyond Superpole 1 and will therefore start from 14th place on the grid. Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) put in a seventh place performance and alongside him on the second row of the grid will be Michel Fabrizio (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet) who took the last place on the second row.
Chaz Davies (ParkinGO MTC Racing Aprilia) secured a top nine place, with Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert) inside the top ten at his home round, despite a fall in the first attempt at running Superpole 2.
A great privateer ride from team Pedercini Kawasaki rider David Salom put him 11th, although both he and Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet) were both involved in the Superpole 2 crash that claimed four riders, damaging their bikes so badly that they could not continue in the ‘wet’ Superpole 2 that decided the final grid places for the top 12 riders.
Times: 1. Sykes (Kawasaki) 1'58.010 average 164.823 kph; 2. Checa (Ducati) 1'58.470; 3. Laverty (Aprilia) 1'58.741; 4. Giugliano (Ducati) 1'58.789; 5. Melandri (BMW) 1'58.885; 6. Rea (Honda) 1'59.560; 7. Haslam (BMW) 1'59.583; 8. Fabrizio (BMW) 1'59.621; 9. Davies (Aprilia) 1'59.748; 10. Smrz (Ducati) 1'59.871; 11. Salom (Kawasaki) 1'59.279; 12. Badovini (BMW) 1'59.154; 13. Camier (Suzuki) 1'59.439; 14. Biaggi (Aprilia) 1'59.453; 15. Baz (Kawasaki) 1'59.627; 16. Hopkins (Suzuki) 1'59.973; etc.
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