WSBK Germany: Badovini Superpole under the fleet

The Superpole event at the Nurburgring took place on a wet track. Under these conditions, Ayrton Badovini and his 1199 Panigale succeeded in doing wonders! The n ° 86 is ahead of Melandri and Sykes on the first row. The arrival of rain a few minutes before the launch of the Superpole disrupted plans …

The Superpole event at the Nurburgring took place on a wet track. Under these conditions, Ayrton Badovini and his 1199 Panigale succeeded in doing wonders! The n ° 86 is ahead of Melandri and Sykes on the first row.

The arrival of rain a few minutes before the launch of the Superpole disrupted the plans of the World Superbike riders and their teams, and in particular those of Chaz Davies who had managed to post his semi-official S1000RR at the top of the sheets. the times of the two qualifying sessions…

The Welshman was unfortunately unable to fight until the end of the second Superpole session (SP2) this afternoon, the fault of a small highside without physical consequences, but which relegated him to 7th place on the german grid.

The track has trapped other pilots – their rear Pirelli in fact! – during SP2. Tom Sykes in particular could not avoid the fall and could not improve his time at the end of the session. The English Ninja will still hoist his official Kawasaki at the end of the first row !

Sent to carpet Tarmac by his Gex nine minutes from the end of SP2, Jules Cluzel was unable to complete a lap – very very – fast and for his part completed third place. Le Coq Supersportif will therefore have to make an excellent start to grab the lead car in the race tomorrow..

More careful – he still had several heats while relaxing his attention! – Sylvain Guintoli will install his official Aprilia just in front of the Suzuki Fixi Crescent n ° 16 of our young compatriot Cluzel. Guinters could have done better, but let’s see the bright side: he didn’t fall on his still recovering shoulder !

Particularly impressive to see evolve on the water-soaked track at the controls of his Ducati, Ayrton Badovini gave a real driving lesson to his little comrades. On paper, we remember that despite a deficit of 8 km / h in maximum speed, the Italian beat his prestigious compatriot Marco Melandri on BMW. !

The rain is not announced for tomorrow, we do not give expensive leather from the tamer of 1199 Panigale against his two rivals installed on the front line: in the dry, Sykes and Melandri should make short work of Badovini.

By securing the lead in second place, the two teammates of the Honda Pata team, Jonathan Rea and Leon Haslam, can consider themselves satisfied. Leon especially, who was in 12th position at the end of the qualifying sessions, took full advantage of the slightly less physical track conditions on his weakened left leg to clinch his best place on the grid of the year..

Max Neukirchner and his Ducati prepared by the private MR-Racing team will start from 10th place in "his" national grid, ahead of two drivers from whom we were probably expecting more: Leon Camier on his GSX-R n ° 2 and, above all, Eugene Laverty and his RSV4 n ° 58 !

Extremely fast, the Aprilia drank the cup in the rain in SP1! Behind the official n ° 58 of the Irish rider run aground the two private machines of Michel Fabrizio (Red Devils Roma) and Davide Giugliano (Althea).

Mark Aitchison, who once again replaces Alex Lundh at the handlebars of the Kawasaki Pedercini, almost reached the Superpole: the Australian was only a tenth of the time from the 15th rider in qualifying, a certain Matej … Smrz !

Victim of a small fall in SP1 on the handlebars of his R1, which was exceptionally aligned by Yamaha Germany this weekend, the Czech rider must finally settle for the same 15th place. The brother of the old "Mister Qualif" (Jakub) should not spark more than Nitro Nori in Imola…

Falling – much more heavily than Smrz – at the start of the first qualifying session on Friday afternoon, Carlos Checa missed out on driving his 1199 Panigale to fully defend his chances. The 2011 world champion thus inherits a distant 18th place, behind guest driver Reiterggerger and his S1000RR !

Federico Sandi and Vittorio Iannuzzo will close the German starting grid tomorrow, driving their respective Kawasaki Pedercini and BMW Grillini. Start of the Superbike races tomorrow at 12 p.m. then 3:30 p.m. Also to be continued between the two, that of the Supersport, at 1:30 p.m .: stay connected !

Superpole WSBK 2013 Nurburgring

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