WSBK Assen: Sykes wins his third pole !

After Australia and Italy, Sykes and his ZX-10R clinch the Superpole in the Netherlands, turning a second faster than their rivals! Tomorrow, Rea, Smrz and Guintoli will join n ° 66 on the 1st grid. Checa will be 5th, Biaggi 17th…

After Australia and Italy, Sykes and his ZX-10R clinch the Superpole in the Netherlands, turning a second faster than their rivals! Tomorrow, Rea, Smrz and Guintoli will join n ° 66 on the 1st grid. Checa will be 5th, Biaggi 17th…

Declared "wet", the Superpole took place in two phases of 20 minutes – the first with sixteen pilots, the second with eight – instead of the usual three sessions – sixteen pilots then twelve and finally eight – of 12 minutes each..

However, the track was only wet in a few places: the WSBK riders had to juggle between sculpted tires and slicks….

These extremely difficult conditions obviously did not bother Tom Sykes, author of a breathtaking time this afternoon at Assen: 1’35.399, barely half a second slower than Jonathan Rea last year on the same track. perfectly dry .

The Honda rider will also settle in second position tomorrow on the starting grid of the two Dutch races … But the second between Johnny’s time and that of his compatriot Sykes would have been well worth a gap of a whole row on the grid !

Still on the first row, the chrono lap specialist ‘Jakub Smrz (Ducati Liberty) will be ahead of his teammate – our compatriot – Sylvain Guintoli. The Frenchman once again demonstrates his speed on the 1198: let’s hope that he will confirm it in the race, as in the first race of WSBK 2012 contested at Phillip Island…

Checa and his world champion Ducati – but sporting the fetish n ° 7 of the "Toro" – appear at the top of the second row. Imperial at Imola three weeks ago, Carlos can count on his Italian twin to limit the wear of Pirelli tires, finish the races at a breakneck pace … and win two more victories ?

Its three pursuers on the grid will undoubtedly try to apply the opposite method: take advantage of the health of their Japanese 4-cylinder to grab places quickly and then manage the possible return of the adversaries. These are in order of Michel Fabrizio (BMW Italia), Leon Haslam (BMW Motorsport) and John Hopkins (Suzuki Crescent).

Marco Melandri has not passed the Superpole 1 milestone and will start from 9th place at the controls of his official S1000RR. The n ° 33 will have to be wary in the first laps of the attacks of his young opponents: Davide Salom (Kawasaki Pedercini), Chaz Davies (Aprilia Parkingo) and Leon Camier (Suzuki Crescent).

Brett McCormik, aka the "Kid" with the mustache, ranks a pretty 13th place. The Canadian is proving to his Ducati Liberty team that it was right to promote him in the Superbike category this year. He is ahead of Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing) who fell then literally rode his RSV4 !

Maxime Berger also fell in Superpole 1: our second representative could not avoid Ayrton Badovini’s BMW but got away without a problem, unlike his Ducati … The two best enemies of the Superstock 1000 (class of 2010) will therefore start from 15th and 16th places.

Trapped by extremely mixed weather conditions from the qualifying practice sessions, Max Biaggi only posted 17th fastest time and was therefore denied access to the final qualifying round. The official Aprilia rider will therefore lead tomorrow the 5th row made up of his RSV4, the 1198 of his compatriots Canepa and Giugliano and the ZX-10R of the Argentinian Mercado.

In the last row are Hiroshi Aoyama (Honda WSBK), Mark Aitchison (BMW Grillini) and Lorenzo Zanetti (Ducati Pata).

Let us not forget Joan Lascorz who fights, surrounded by his relatives and his medical team, as strong as his little comrades on the track: "he is conscious and remains hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Hôpital de la Vall d’Hebron, in Barcelona, ​​and will stay that way until the production of pulmonary mucus has ceased, "his team said last night..

"Our announcement is brief and cautious due to the severity of the injuries, the uncertainty over his chances of recovery, and the fact that, for us, time has stood still. Changes and improvements are now measured in weeks. , and not in days ". Fuerza joan !

Superpole WSBK 2012 Imola results

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