Superpole Misano: Super Sykes has come a long way…

Passed by the repechage (SP1), Tom Sykes finally signed his fourth consecutive Superpole on the circuit of Misano! The official Kawasaki n ° 66 is ahead of Haslam on Aprilia and Giugliano on Ducati. Rea and Biaggi complete the Top 5.

Passed by the repechage (SP1), Tom Sykes finally signed his fourth consecutive Superpole on the circuit of Misano! The official Kawasaki n ° 66 is ahead of Haslam on Aprilia and Giugliano on Ducati. Rea and Biaggi complete the Top 5.

The brand new circuit surface of Misano gave a hard time to "Super Sykes" and his team … Started in the wrong direction in terms of settings this morning in FP3 (third free practice session), the champion of the world 2013 was forced to participate in the first session of Superpole.

For the first time in his career, the man with 27 pole positions – now! – had to fight with the second blades to reach the final phase of the Superpole: the famous SP2 which the ten best drivers of the first three free sessions automatically access. That’s it yes, as in MotoGP !

Best time in SP1 ahead of Badovini – also qualified in SP2 – "Major Tom" did it again in SP2 on soft tires. Sykes even took the opportunity to erase his track record from the shelves, spinning more than half a second faster than last year….

A quarter of a second behind the factory Kawasaki rider n ° 66, four men fought with thousandths (!) To distribute the next places in the Top 5 … Finally, Leon Haslam (Aprilia Red Devils) and Davide Giugliano (Ducati Aruba.it) accompany Sykes on the first line.

Started from a distant eighth place on the grid in Portugal two weeks ago – and winner of both races despite everything! – Jonathan Rea has a more comfortable 4th place on the Italian grid. The – very, very – wide leader of the championship has never left the Top 2 in the race this season: will he continue his incredible harvest tomorrow? ?

– and in Sepang at the beginning of August -, Max Biaggi could well deprive the holders of very big points, even of podium (s) this Sunday … The fastest driver of the first day, the Roman Emperor was third in SP2 before the qualifying gums are not threaded (behind Haslam and Rea, in front of Sykes and Torres). Mamma mia !

The second row of the Italian grid will be completed by Jordi Torres (Aprilia Red Devils). The best rookie 2015 is still looking for a second podium. But who better than Biaggi to lead him there? Tomorrow, the "Spanish Elvis" would do well to study the impeccable style of n ° 3…

Alex Lowes (Suzuki Voltcom Crescent) will start from the top of the third row, Ayrton Badovini (BMW Italia) from the middle and Sylvain Guintoli (Honda Pata) from the outside. Our reigning world champion will beat a slew of Panigale R…

Two factory Ducatis will lead the fourth row: that of Michele Pirro – a quick replacement for the Wild Card Luca Scassa who broke his collarbone on Friday …. – and the n ° 7 of the official Chaz Davies. Last of SP2, Matteo Baiocco (Ducati Althea) will start from 12th place.

Third in SP1, Leandro Mercado (Ducati Barni) will take the lead of the 5th row tomorrow. The Argentine will strive to maintain his uninterrupted streak of races completed in points, a feat he shares with Jonathan Rea !

Niccolo Canepa is back on a Panigale after starting the season on EBR 1190RX and chained on Kawasaki ZX-10R – that of Christophe Ponsson! … On the Ducati prepared by the excellent Team Althea, the Italian secures the 14th place on "his" national grid.

More than a second from the best time in SP1 posted by Tom Sykes – who else? -, Michael van den Mark won only 15th place, the lowest qualifying for the Dutch rookie. less than two hundredths of a second is Markus Reiterberger, Wild Card who was in 7th place on Friday night.

The current leader of the IDM championship leader will place his # 11 S1000RR ahead of Roman Ramos’ # 40 ZX-10R and Leon Camier’s F4 RR. The English champion will try to score a few points and, above all, finish both races: No.2 MV Agusta has crossed the finish line only once in the last six races !

Less than a tenth of a second from Ramos’ stopwatch, Randy de Puniet (Suzuki Voltcom Crescent) has to be content with 19th place on the grid at Misano. Victim of a technical glitch in the middle of a SP1 session, David Salom (Kawasaki Pedercini) inherits only 20th place.

Author of the 21st fastest time at the end of the first three free sessions, Santiago Barragan (Kawasaki Grillini) takes the last place of 7th place. Behind him, his new teammate Gianluca Vizziello will install his own Ninja Grillini in front of Christophe Ponsson and his Kawasaki Pedercini.

Among the many crashes that occurred yesterday during practice, the most impressive certainly came from our compatriot at n ° 23. Victim of a huge highside at the Carro turn, Christophe was evacuated from the circuit by ambulance. This morning, he was back with the 23rd fastest time, his place on the grid. The two BMWs of the Toth team will bring up the rear again.

See you tomorrow to follow the two Superbike races (start of the first at 10:30 am) and the Supersport race live. Stay connected !

Superpole World Superbike Misano 2015

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