WSBK Brno: Sykes on pole, green and against everything !

The Superpole in the Czech Republic was trying to say the least! Unperturbed, Tom Sykes nevertheless won his seventh pole of the year and will start tomorrow ahead of Carlos Checa Eugene Laverty and Davide Giugliano.

The Superpole in the Czech Republic was trying to say the least! Unperturbed, Tom Sykes nevertheless won his seventh pole of the year and will start tomorrow ahead of Carlos Checa Eugene Laverty and Davide Giugliano.

The Superpole event in Brno this afternoon was arguably the longest in World Superbike history! Indeed, the interruption of the second session, following the engine failure of Davide Giugliano (Ducati Althea), was extended by the appearance of a few drops of rain …

Also, the twelve drivers selected at the end of Superpole 1 competed for pole in a second – and final – 20-minute session, which ended two hours after the first launch. !

The result of this Superpole is much less original than its course since it is once again the n ° 66 rider of the official Kawasaki team who wins, completing the 5.4 km of the superb Czech circuit in 1 ‘58.010, almost a second and a half faster than his best time in qualifying !

Tom Sykes – who now has three Tissot watches on each arm! – left no chance for Carlos Checa: relegated to almost half a second, the world champion (twice 3rd in the race last year) nevertheless inherits second place on the grid.

His teammate Davide Giugliano, extremely fast during all the tests, also climbs on the first row, behind an official Aprilia bearing the number … 58! Indeed, back at his best since Arago, Eugene Laverty secures a superb third place on the handlebars of his RSV4 and will be able to set the mood tomorrow in the race. !

We can also count on Marco Melandri, fifth on the grid, to animate the two races of tomorrow. The Italian rider, who shared the biggest points of the 2011 edition with his best enemy Biaggi, is ahead of the No. 65 Honda of Jonathan Rea, another rider known for his sense of fighting….

The second line is completed by two other BMWs: the official n ° 91 of Leon Haslam and that of the Italian team sponsored by Goldbelt decked out with the n ° 84 fetish of Michel Fabrizio. Keep a close eye on this bike during tomorrow’s two races as the transalpine "Magician" has achieved incredible numbers on the Czech track in the past. !

The third row is dominated by Chaz Davies and his private Aprilia No.19. Consistently well placed in the race for three events, the Welsh rookie – but Supersport world champion all the same – could once again allow Noale’s firm to widen the gap in the constructors’ standings.

Victim of the trace of oil left by the Ducati n ° 34 at the very start of Superpole 2, Jakub Smrz only won 10th place in front of his home crowd. Trapped by the same task, Davide Salom and Ayrton Badovini were both deprived of motorcycles for the remainder of the session and will start from 11th and 12th place respectively.

Discarded at the end of Superpole 1, Max Biaggi qualifies a distant and unexpected 14th place. Usually much faster on the Czech circuit, the Roman Emperor will have some work to do in the warm-up tomorrow morning to perfect the settings of his Aprilia n ° 3 !

The leader of the provisional is preceded in fourth place by the Suzuki n ° 2 of Leon Camier, but precedes our first national representative (in the absence of Sylvain Guintoli, read MNC of July 20, 2012) Loris Baz on Kawasaki. John Hopkins on the second GSX-R 1000 of the Fixi Crescent team closes this fourth row.

With less than a tenth of a second behind Hopkins in the qualifying sessions, Lorenzo Zanetti was unable to compete in the Superpole and will start from 17th on the grid tomorrow in his Ducati. The Italian duo are ahead of a Japanese duo: Hiroshi Aoyama and his Honda n ° 4.

Maxime Berger will start from 19th place at the helm of his 1198 prepared by the Liberty Effenbert team. Our favorite No.121 is followed on the grid by Polita, Mercado, Brignola and guest driver Kispataki. See you tomorrow on the Site to follow, almost live, the two Superbike races, as well as that of Supersport. Stay connected !

Superpole WSBK 2012 Brno results

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