Aragon: Melandri signs his first pole in WSBK !

Marco Melandri has just won in the Superpole event on the new Aragon circuit. Yamaha rider n ° 33 is ahead of the official Aprilia from Biaggi and Camier and the Ducati from Checa. Guintoli is 10th, Berger 15th. At the end of the two qualifying practice sessions, the first sixteen pilots were in the same second… This is to say if the test …

Marco Melandri has just won in the Superpole event on the new Aragon circuit. Yamaha rider n ° 33 is ahead of the official Aprilia of Biaggi and Camier and the Ducati of Checa. Guintoli is 10th, Berger 15th.

At the end of the two qualifying practice sessions, the first sixteen pilots were in the same second … This is to say if the Superpole event – contested in three sessions with elimination at the end of each of between them of the four slowest men – promised to be disputed !

Excluded from this famous Superpole, Ruben Xaus (Honda Ten Kate), Chris Vermeulen (Kawasaki racing team), Roberto Rolfo (Kawasaki Pedercini) and Lorenzo Lanzi (replacing James Toseland at BMW Italia) will start in this order from the fifth and last row for the two races of tomorrow…

Jakub Smrz gave everything – a little too much even since he did a nice straight ride with his Ducati Effenbert Liberty! – but he was all the same eliminated from Superpole 1, at the same time as the two officials BMW Motorrad Leon Haslam and Troy Corser.

Maxime Berger will also start from 4th row. Our national rookie will start precisely behind the Ducati n ° 96 and the BMW n ° 91 but in front of the BMW n ° 11, to assault the Top 15 and new points provided that his Ducati Supersonic holds up. !

Fourth fastest time in Superpole 1, Sylvain Guintoli did not survive Superpole 2: tire management requires sacrifices … Our national n ° 50 finally installs his 1098R prepared by the Effenbert Liberty team in 10th place on the grid.

Noriyuki Haga (Aprilia PATA) will dominate this third row tomorrow, while Michel Fabrizio (Suzuki Alstare) and Marc Aitchison (Kawa ‘Pedercini) will start behind Sylvain at the controls of their two Japanese motorcycles.

As if invigorated by Sykes’ good performances at Misano last week, two other Kawasaki are in the second row: the ZX-10R n ° 17 of Lascorz is placed in 7th position on the grid, in front of the S1000RR n ° 86 of the rookie Badovini BMW’s first rider again !

The other Ninja, the n ° 66 of Sykes precisely, is classified 5th in front of the Yamaha n ° 58 of Eugene Laverty. The two Britons with a particularly generous style will be a close watch tomorrow !

Finally, the first row is trusted by the Italians … The local of the stage Carlos Checa gets on his Ducati flanked by his inseparable n ° 7 "only" the 4th time, almost a second from the best time . He remains one of the favorites for victory tomorrow: the support of "his" public will be a great reinforcement !

Third fastest time in Superpole 3, the n ° 2 of the official Aprilia team Leon Camier is on the front row for the first time this year. Already on the podium in 2011 despite less good places on the grid (7th in Assen and 11th in Salt Lake City), the great Leon will he steal points from Max tomorrow ?

Installed in second position on the starting grid of Aragon, the reigning world champion Max Biaggi must indeed score the maximum number of points in the next rounds to get back on Carlos Checa: the Italian currently has 72 points of behind the Spaniard…

Following his mistake at Misano (fall in the second round), Marco Melandri lost second place in the general classification and is 23 points behind Biaggi and 95 over Checa … By posting his Yamaha, "Italian" because pampered near Monza, in pole position – this is a first for Marco in WSBK -, the transalpine is getting ready to catch up.

In addition, Marco is the only rider on the field to have ridden on the track in race condition on the Motorland circuit of Aragon, during the MotoGP Grand Prix of Aragon last year. The Hedgehog of Ravenna finished 9th at the controls of his Honda RC212V. No doubt he will do much better tomorrow during the two rounds of WSBK on the handlebars of his R1…

See you tomorrow to follow the two World Superbike races in Spain 2011, as well as the World Supersport race, live! Stay connected…

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