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    samedi 6 septembre 2014

    WSBK : Le record du circuit et la Tissot-Superpole pour Loris Baz / Circuit Record lap for Baz as he claims pole position at Jerez

    Loris Baz, Kawasaki Racing Team, Jerez SP2

    samedi, 6 septembre 2014 13:44

             Le Français est en pole pour la deuxième fois cette année.

    Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) a décroché la Tissot-Superpole pour la dixième manche du Championnat du Monde eni FIM Superbike 2014 à l'issue d'une intense séance de qualifications à Jerez de la Frontera.
    Le Français a tourné en 1'40.298 pour s'installer en tête la grille WSBK pour la deuxième fois de sa carrière depuis la pole qu'il avait prise à Assen en début de saison et partagera la première ligne avec Davide Giugliano (Ducati Superbike Team) et son coéquipier Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team), troisième à 0.263s de la pole et 0.028s de la seconde position.
    Tom Sykes, Kawasaki Racing Team, Jerez SP2
    Leader des essais libres vendredi matin puis samedi matin, Marco Melandri (Aprilia Racing Team) partira finalement de la quatrième position après avoir fini à une demi-seconde de la pole, juste devant son coéquipier Sylvain Guintoli (Aprilia Racing Team) et Eugene Laverty (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki), vainqueur des deux courses de Jerez l'an dernier.
    Chaz Davies (Ducati Superbike Team), Leon Haslam (Pata Honda World Superbike Team), passé par la Superpole 1, et Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki), tombé en fin de séance, s'élanceront de la troisième ligne.
    La quatrième ligne regroupera Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike Team), Toni Elias (Red Devils Roma) et Sylvain Barrier (BMW Motorrad Italia), qui avait été le plus rapide en Superpole 1 et était le seul représentant de la catégorie EVO en Superpole 2.
    Jonathan Rea, PATA Honda World Superbike Team, Jerez SP2

    Front row all under previous best lap.
     An intense Tissot-Superpole second session has been won by Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) who claimed Pole Position today at Jerez. the young Frenchman will move off ahead of everyone else in the two Sunday races for the second time this year. Baz also recorded the new best lap of the track for the Superbike class in 1’40.298, beating the previous record by 0.322s.


    Davide Giugliano (Ducati Superbike Team) and Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) will join Baz on the front row for the two 20 lap races tomorrow. The top-3 riders were awarded with the Tissot-Superpole trophies by 2011 Superbike World Champion Carlos Checa. Row two will see the Aprilia Racing duo of Marco Melandri and Sylvain Guintoli as well as Eugene Laverty (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) who was 6th.
    Tom Sykes, Kawasaki Racing Team, Jerez FP2

    Alex Lowes crashed his Voltcom Crescent Suzuki at turn two in the final 30 seconds and will start 9th behind Chaz Davies (Ducati Superbike Team, 7th) and Leon Haslam (Pata Honda World Superbike, 8th), and ahead of other Pata Honda rider Jonathan Rea.

    The accolade of being the fastest of the EVO qualifiers went to Sylvain Barrier (BMW Motorrad Italia) who will start tomorrow’s races from 12th on the grid despite falling at turn 6 with two minutes to go.

    Superpole 1 was as equally exciting with Sylvain Barrier (BMW Motorrad Italia) posting an incredible lap of
    1.41.768s, a time that would have put him 3rd overall on the pre-Superpole classification. Leon Haslam (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) also made it through to Superpole 2 with his fastest lap of the weekend where they joined the automatically seeded top ten riders after free practice.