Final qualifying
HM Plant Honda's Cal Crutchlow took pole position with a time of 1’20.386s with NW200 Michael Rutter ending his day on positive note by taking second place. Shane Byrne lost his pole position at the last second and had to settle for a not too distant third.
1 Cal Crutchlow HM Plant Honda 1'20.386
2 Michael Rutter NW200 1'20.597
3 Shane Byrne Airwaves Ducati 1’20.663
4 Leon Haslam HM Plant Honda 1’20.706
5 Tom Sykes Rizla Suzuki 1’20.797
6 Leon Camier Airwaves Ducati 1’20.802
7 Karl Harris Rob Mac Racing 1’20.950
8 Michael Laverty Relentless Suzuki 1’21.029
9 Gary Mason Quay Honda Garage Racing 1’21.379
10 James Ellison Hydrex Animal Honda 1’21.447
Qualifying two
Shane Byrne of Airwaves Ducati dominated the second session by taking provisional pole early on in the session, Leon Haslam of HM Plant Honda kept hold of his second place with his team mate Cal Crutchlow closely behind in third. Leon Camier of Airwaves Ducati slipped down the order slightly to fourth and Rizla Suzuki Tom Sykes rounded off the top five.
Gary Mason of Quay Honda was the only Daily Star Cup rider to make it to the final heat after setting the 8th fastest time and SMT replacement rider Jason O’Halloran proved the team had recovered from their earlier engine problem and demonstrated his riding talent to qualify 15th.
Qualifying One
The riders who were knocked out of the following qualifying sessions were Shannon Etheridge, Aaron Zanotti, Tom Tunstall, Martin Jessopp, Kenny Gilbertson and Michael Howarth. For unknown reasons Billy McConnell of MSS Kawasaki did not appear on track due to technical problems, so the Australin will have to start from dead last.
Leon Camier of Airwaves Ducati is in provisional pole followed closely by Leon Haslam of HM Plant Honda and the battered and bruised Shane Byrne was in third.
The first dash saw two fallers both from the TENA for Men team, Tristan Palmer fell early on in the session to return and finish 16th overall.
Michael Howarth crashed with 20 seconds remaining, but at that point was already out of the top 20 for the next round.
Michael Rutter has qualified for the next round, but was forced to stop during the session following a technical fault, his second of the day after also suffering a crash in practice.