WSBK Spain: Laverty takes over the last Superpole 2013

The fastest man on the Jerez circuit this afternoon was Eugene Laverty. The official Aprilia rider is ahead of the leader of the provisional – and future champion ?! – Tom Sykes as well as the outsider Davide Giugliano. Guintoli is fifth behind Melandri … By completing the 4.423 km of the Spanish route in 1 ‘40.620, Eugene Laverty has just won the second …

The fastest man on the Jerez circuit this afternoon was Eugene Laverty. The official Aprilia rider is ahead of the leader of the provisional – and future champion ?! – Tom Sykes as well as the outsider Davide Giugliano. Guintoli is fifth behind Melandri…

By completing the 4.423 km of the Spanish route in 1 ‘40.620, Eugene Laverty has just won the second Superpole of his career. The Irish driver thus demonstrates that he is ready to take on a formidable – impossible? – challenge: score 38 points more than Tom Sykes and win the 2013 WSBK title !

The Kawasaki rider n ° 66 precisely, was only 48 hundredths behind "Yodjine" during SP3 (third and decisive phase of the Superpole). The English Ninja is completely satisfied with his position on the grid: "that’s what I needed, to be on the front row". Tomorrow, he will only need a place on a podium to put on his first world crown. "Almost too easy" ?!

As at Magny-Cours, the third place on the grid was won by Davide Giugliano, the pilot of the private Aprilia Althea team. The No.34 – a tribute to his idol Kevin Schwantz who inspired his style of driving with force – will aim …

Leading the second row is Marco Melandri, his # 33 S1000RR and his sore ankle! Falling at home on the stairs – it’s nerd – the Italian pilot is counting on the "Clinica Mobila" to give him just enough drugs and guarantee him two races full of happiness rather than pain..

Sylvain Guintoli will place his RSV4 n ° 50 on the fifth place of the grid and will try to take the wheels of his two rivals this season: Sykes and Laverty, "who else"? The Frenchie is 38 points behind Tom, but only one behind his teammate Eugene. If getting first place in the championship is now a miracle for Sylvain, grabbing second is quite feasible.

Toni Elias, who runs in place of Fabrizio on the Aprilia of the Red Devils Roma team, takes sixth place on the grid. Consistently in the Top 4 during free practice and qualifying, the Spanish driver will be closely watched tomorrow. !

Back on the track after a month and a half of absence, Leon Camier can be proud of his seventh place on the grid. The Suzuki Fixi Crescent rider is ahead of two riders who were not expected as high either: Xavi Fores, on the Ducati Alstare, and Mark Aitchison on his Kawasaki Pedercini !

Chaz Davies gave everything in his final loop in SP2, but it was not enough: the Welshman has to settle for 10th place for his. Chazie will have to spit in the gloves to get to the front: a good way to prove that he deserves a very good handlebars in WSBK next year ?

Eliminated in Superpole 2 also, the "wildcard" Broc Parkes and Lorenzo Lanzi can be considered more satisfied. Their – good – old R1 and 1198 respectively allow them to do much more than figuration this Saturday, and could integrate the Top 10 in the race tomorrow. !

Ayrton Badovini thought to reach SP2 but his teammate Xavi Fores deprived him of it at the very end of the first Superpole session! The n ° 86 of the Ducati Alstare team will start tomorrow in front of the n ° 23 Kawa ‘Pedercini of Federico Sandi and the n ° 84 Honda – the n ° 65 of Rea in fact! – by Michel Fabrizio.

Sylvain Barrier is playing this weekend. But the was not far from participating in his first Superpole session … At the end of the two qualifying sessions, Sylv’1 was only a tenth of a second behind Mark Aitchison, 15th and last qualified for the SP1 !

Behind the BMW n ° 20 will be installed on the grid the Honda n ° 91 of Leon Haslam and the Suzuki n ° 16 of Jules Cluzel. The disappointment is great for our "Coq Supersportif" who wanted to take advantage of his perfect knowledge of the track to qualify at the forefront and achieve two strong Spanish races after passing by the French…

The starting grid will be completed by Max Neukirchner on his Ducati MR-Racing n ° 27 and Vittorio Iannuzzo on his BMW Grillini n ° 31. See you tomorrow at noon sharp for the start of the first Superbike race, 1:30 p.m. for the Supersport and 3:30 p.m. for the second SBK race, the very last of this 2013 season. !

WSBK 2013 Jerez Superpole

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