Reigning World Superbike Champion Max Biaggi summed up his Silverstone Superpole performance today with the words, 'It started badly'. He wasn't wrong.

The Roman Emperor crashed out of Superpole One on his first flying lap (see above) when he lost the front. He subsequently got back out only to not get through to the third session while team-mate Leon Camier made it onto the front row.

“It started off badly straight away with the crash in Q1. The front end closed up on me and I still am not sure why, in a section of the track which is very bumpy. I restarted with the second bike using a qualifier tyre, but I wasn't able to get my time down enough. We've struggled the whole weekend and unfortunately it will be extremely difficult tomorrow as well," said Biaggi, while a lot of people giggled.