Superpole Jerez: Baz signs his second pole position

At the top of the timesheet on Friday evening, Loris Baz has just confirmed this afternoon in Jerez: the young Kawasaki rider will start tomorrow in pole position in the two Spanish Superbike races, ahead of Giugliano and Sykes who will complete the first row….

At the top of the timesheet on Friday evening, Loris Baz has just confirmed this afternoon in Jerez: the young Kawasaki rider will start tomorrow in pole position in the two Spanish Superbike races, ahead of Giugliano and Sykes who will complete the first row….

“It’s cool to come back to Jerez on the ZX-10R,” said Loris on Thursday evening. "I love the track and we have set good times here", recalled the official Kawasaki rider who is currently fourth in the WSBK championship with 253 points..

Author of the best time on Friday afternoon in hot conditions, our friendly "Green Giant" has once again dominated his little comrades during SP2, the second phase of the Superpole which opposes the twelve fastest pilots on the field..

At the height of his 21 years and his meter ninety-two, the Savoyard recorded on this occasion the second pole position of his career after that established in April at. Bazooka covered the 4.423 km of the technical Spanish circuit in just 1’40.298, a quarter of a second faster than his two closest rivals…

Davide Giugliano, at the head of SP2 one minute from the checkered flag, must regret having escaped at the end of his brilliant lap, already lower than the record signed last year by Laverty on Aprilia … A second fastest time , faster still, was perhaps within reach for the Italian ?!

Behind the n ° 34 of the official Ducati team – and our n ° 76 – will be housed the "Number One" of the discipline, Tom Sykes. A handful of hundredths of a second ahead of "Bazooka" in the first three sectors of the circuit, the English Ninja will surely blame himself for being so slow – so to speak …. – in the last portion.

The fastest driver on Friday and Saturday morning, Marco Melandri turned half a second slower than Loris this afternoon. The Aprilia official – in WSBK this year, in MotoGP next year? – finally takes the fourth fastest time in SP2.

The famous n ° 33 will therefore install his RSV4 just in front of that of his teammate, Sylvain Guintoli. Our favorite n ° 50 will have only one goal tomorrow: reduce as much as possible the lead that Tom has in the championship. With six races to go, Sykes is 44 points ahead of "Guinters". What gap will separate them on Sunday evening? Suspense.

Fourth in the FP3 standings (free practice n ° 3) this morning, Eugene Laverty is sixth in SP2 on his GSX-R1000 prepared by the Suzuki Voltcom Crescent team. Often faster in the race than in qualifying, the Irish n ° 58 – who had achieved the double at – will aim for the podium tomorrow.

Three British drivers form the third row: the Welshman Chaz Davies and his official Panigale adorned with his favorite No. 7 will start "logically" from 7th place. Leon Haslam and his CBR1000RR, passed through the repechage (SP1), will beat Alex Lowes and the second GSX-R1000, victims of a minor fall during the Superpole.

On the podium during the last Superbike outing (a month and a half ago, it’s been going back!), Jonathan Rea will have to pull out all the stops to secure himself in the right car as soon as the starting lights go out on Sunday. The n ° 65 Honda rider will start in front of the stage local, Toni Elias (Aprilia Red Devils Roma).

Sylvain Barrier, the fastest driver in SP1 ahead of Leon Haslam himself, bit the dust at the end of SP2 by losing the front end at the end of the pit straight. However, the n ° 52 of the BMW Italia team can consider himself satisfied: he is the first Evo driver on the Spanish grid. !

Leader of this category precisely, David Salom, who set fire to the powder by setting the best time in SP1 three minutes from the end of the session, was finally deprived of SP2 by Barrier and Haslam. The Spanish Ninja will settle for 13th place, ahead of Niccolo Canepa (Ducati Althea Evo) and Alessandro Andreozzi (Kawasaki Perdercini Evo).

Three more ZX-10R Evos will line up on row six! Between Sheridan Morais n ° 32 and Brian Staring n ° 67 prepared by the Iron Brain Grillini team, the n ° 11 of our last representative will be stalled – since Fabien Foret will no longer ride in 2014: the n ° 11 of Jeremy Guarnoni, sole member of the MRS team in WSBK.

Claudio Corti will post his MV Agusta F4RR at the head of the 7th row and will be followed by Imre Toth on the first BMW S1000RR of the eponymous team (BMW Toth). 21st time in the third free practice session, Gabor Rizmayer (BMW Toth) completes 7th place.

Finally, the two EBR drivers, Geoff May and Aaron Yates, will install their 1190 RX on the last row of the Spanish starting grid. Credited with the 24th fastest time, Luca Scassa did not ride this Saturday and will not participate in the two races of tomorrow…

The first SBK race will start at 10:30 a.m., the second at 1:10 p.m. Between the two will be the Supersport race (11:40), also to be followed almost live on the Site: stay tuned !

Superpole World Superbike Jerez 2014

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