Althea’s Davide Giugliano took the top of this morning’s second qualifying practice at the Van Drenthe circuit at Asses was finally dry, and despite the very cold temperatures, lap times dropped.
The Italian in his last flying lap of the qualifying session posted a 1’36″814 lap pipping Kawasaki’s Tom Sykes, who led most of the session by just 0.
069s.
After yesterday’s morning crash, Loris Baz bounced back this morning to take the third spot on the timesheet and he was a little more than six tenths from Giugliano.
Jonathan Rea who will be the sole rider for Pata Honda after team mate’s Leon Haslam accident and put his CBR1000RR into fourth ahead of standings leader Sylvain Guintoli and Carlos Checa.
The Alstare Ducati rider was sixth albeit one second adrift.
BMW Goldbet duo Marco Melandri and Chaz Davies were seventh and eighth respectively.
Closing out the top ten were Aprilia’s Eugene Laverty and FIXI Crescent Suzuki’s Jules Cluzel.
Also making it into this afternoon’s Superpole will be Michel Fabrizio, Ayrton Badovini, Ivan Clementi (13°), Max Neukirchner and Vittorio Iannuzzo.
Federico Sandi and Mark Aitchison (in his second weekend with Effenbert Liberty Racing) are out of the top 15 as is recovering Leon Camier who suffered technical issues on his Suzuki.
Pedercini’s Alexander Lundh crashed again and the session had to be red flagged after nine minutes.
The Swedish rider in the accident fractured his collarbone and he’ll be joining Haslam on the sidelines.
2013 WSBK Assen QP2 results:01- Davide Giugliano – Althea Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – 1’36.
814 02- Tom Sykes – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 0.
069 03- Loris Baz – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 0.
656 04- Jonathan Rea – Pata Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 0.
745 05- Sylvain Guintoli – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.
843 06- Carlos Checa – Team Ducati Alstare – Ducati 1199 Panigale R – + 1.
019 07- Marco Melandri – BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team – BMW S1000RR – + 1.
229 08- Chaz Davies – BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team – BMW S1000RR – + 1.
336 09- Eugene Laverty – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 1.
353 10- Jules Cluzel – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 1.
471 11- Michel Fabrizio – Red Devils Roma – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 1.
548 12- Ayrton Badovini – Team Ducati Alstare – Ducati 1199 Panigale R – + 1.
619 13- Ivan Clementi – HTM Racing – BMW S1000RR – + 2.
027 14- Max Neukirchner – MR Racing – Ducati 1199 Panigale R – + 2.
288 15- Vittorio Iannuzzo – Grillini Dentalmatic SBK – BMW S1000RR – + 3.
157 16- Federico Sandi – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 3.
720 17- Mark Aitchison – Team Effenbert Liberty Racing – Ducati 1098R – + 4.
594 18- Alexander Lundh – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 5.
576 19- Leon Camier – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 24.
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