Althea Ducati's Davide Guigliano has led a Ducati whitewash at the top of the Moscow World Superbike first qualifying timesheets, finishing two-tenths ahead of team-mate Carlos Checa and a whopping three quarters of a second ahead of Sylvain Guintoli on the Pata-liveried 1098R.
The Italian went round in 1'35.074 and was enjoying a huge advantage over Marco Melandri, who was fastest this morning, before Checa reduced the deficit and Frenchman Guintoli slid in front of the BMW man by two one-hundredths of a second at session end. Not bad as all the Duatis are at least 10kph down on top speed along Moscow's monstrous straight.
Parkingo Aprilia's Chaz Davies continued his run of form from this morning, bagging fifth place with a 1'35.828 while Tom Sykes found some pace in the lunch-hour and hopped up to sixth from his distant 12th place in the opening free practice session. Lorenzo Zanetti, on the sister Pata Ducati, is in seventh with Hiro Aoyama proving his free practice speed was no anomaly with eighth.
Leon Haslam was threatening the top spots early but but slowly slid down the order to finish ninth, but still within a second, while Jonathan Rea rounded out the top ten and was only 0.022s behind the BMW man. Nico Canepa put his Red Devils Ducati in 11th while Loris Baz brushed off his crash this morning to take 12th.
Max Biaggi is still suffering a lack of pace in 13th but not as much as his team-mate Eugene Laverty down in 17th, while Leon Camier - who was tangled up in Baz's crash, joins Laverty outside provisional Superpole in 18th place and 1.4s off the pace.
