Qualifying three

Michael Laverty 2'05.056

Swan Yamaha's Michael Laverty has taken his second British Superbike pole position of the year at Silverstone this afternoon, edging out the injured John Hopkins by less than a tenth of a second with Relentless Suzuki's Josh Brookes in third.

Injured Michael Rutter rode through the pain barrier to bag the last front row spot despite having broken ribs with Tommy Hill in fifth which won't please the championship leader. Jon Kirkham is sixth, Martin Jessopp seventh despite an off, Peter Hickman eighth, Graeme Gowland's Evo WFR Honda's in ninth and Dan Linfoot rounding out the top ten.

Qualifying two

Michael Laverty 2'05.343

Tommy Hill 2'05.787

Sensationally, both Shane Byrne and Ryuichi Kiyonari fell at the second hurdle and didn't make it through to the final stage of qualifying and they will start from 13th and 16th on the grid respectively. Brookes found a lap from nowhere to go second fastest behind the spectacular Laverty.

Gowland was the only Evo rider to make it through to the final session but his team-mate Glen Richards was only excluded by 0.037 seconds as Linfoot just leapfrogged the Aussie with his last lap.

ELIMINATED

Glen Richards

Alex Lowes

Shane Byrne

Tommy Bridewell

James Westmoreland

Ryuichi Kiyonari

Gary Mason

Chris Walker

Ian Lowry

Steve Brogan

Qualifying one

Michael Laverty 2'06.263

Laverty put down his marker early on with a barnstorming lap whch was more than half a second faster than Kirkham who is riding on a wave of confidence this weekend and also half second faster than his team-mate Hopkins. Kiyonari was on the cusp of disqualification, sitting in 20th place as the chequered flag came out.

ELIMINATED

Barry Burrell

Patric Muff

Karl Harris

Scott Smart

Craig Fitzpatrick

Aaron Zanotti

David Anthony

James Hillier

Dan Kneen

Lee Jackson

John Simpson

Steve Heneghan

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