In today’s World Superbike first qualifying session at the Moscow Raceway, Davide Giugliano took the provisional pole.
In the final minutes of the session the Althea Ducati rider posted a flying lap of 1.
35.
074 and finished 0.
210s ahead of his team mate reigning World Champion Carlos Checa.
Following in third was Sylvain Guintoli who made it three Ducati’s in the top three, which seems to confirm the competitiveness of the twins on this circuit.
Marco Melandri fell back to fourth and he was seven tenths off pace and could only improve only 0,021s from this morning’s lap time when he led the session with a big gap over the rest of the field.
Chaz Davies continues to impress as he took fifth and was the best Aprilia rider again as factory riders Max Biaggi (who had a technical issues on his RSV4 at the beginning of the session) and Eugene Laverty were only 13th and 17th respectively.
Tom Sykes finished in 6th ahead of Lorenzo Zanetti and once again a surprising Hiroshi Aoyama.
Leon Haslam and Jonathan Rea closed out the top ten.
WSBK Moscow QP1 results:01- Davide Giugliano – Althea Racing – Ducati 1198 – 1’35.
074 02- Carlos Checa – Althea Racing – Ducati 1198 – + 0.
210 03- Sylvain Guintoli – PATA Racing Team – Ducati 1198 – + 0.
677 04- Marco Melandri – BMW Motorrad Motorsport – BMW S1000RR – + 0.
698 05- Chaz Davies – ParkinGO MTC Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.
754 06- Tom Sykes – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 0.
831 07- Lorenzo Zanetti – PATA Racing Team – Ducati 1198 – + 0.
906 08- Hiroshi Aoyama – Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 0.
914 09- Leon Haslam – BMW Motorrad Motorsport – BMW S1000RR – + 0.
965 10- Jonathan Rea – Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 0.
987 11- Niccolò Canepa – Red Devils Roma – Ducati 1198 – + 1.
069 12- Loris Baz – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 1.
100 13- Max Biaggi – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 1.
162 14- John Hopkins – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 1.
219 15- Ayrton Badovini – BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet – BMW S1000RR – + 1.
252 16- Michel Fabrizio – BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet – BMW S1000RR – + 1.
368 17- Eugene Laverty – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 1.
396 18- Leon Camier – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 1.
459 19- David Salom – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 1.
837 20- Alexander Lundh – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 3.
089 21- David McFadden – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 3.
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