Superpole three
Carlos Checa 1'54.144
Eugene Laverty 1'54.512
Max Biaggi 1'54.743
Althea Ducati's Carlos Checa has taken yet another World Superbike pole position at the Nurburgring this afternoon but had a battle with Yamaha's Eugene Laverty who ran him close through all three Superpole sessions. Injured Max Biaggi took third place with Marco Melandri in fourth but seven-tenths off the pace. Checa also better Biaggi circuit best record of 1'54.595.
Pata Aprilia's Noriyuki Haga has been in stealth mode all weekend but putting in some fast laps when it counts and he heads the second row with PBM Kawasaki's Tom Sykes and the works BMW of Leon Haslam for company. Liberty Ducati's Sylvain Guintoli couldn't keep up his early qualifying tre pace in the final session but finished in eighth.
Superpole two
Carlos Checa 1'54.709
Eugene Laverty 1'54.725
Marco Melandri 1'54.782
For the second session in succession, Guintoli rescued himself from elimination with his last lap but he will be off Jonathan Rea's Christmas card list as the lap put the Castrol Honda man from eighth into ninth.
Rea had rolled down pitlane with only seconds to spare as the Frenchman crossed the line to go sixth but the Irishman just ran out of time and ended up in ninth place. Haslam just squeaked through in eighth while Mark Aitchison did well to take the Pedercini Kawasaki as far as 11th.
ELIMINATED
Jonathan Rea
Jakub Smrz
Mark Aitchison
Michel Fabrizio
Superpole one
Carlos Checa 1'54.641
Sylvain Guintoli 1'54.921
Eugene Laverty 1'54.923
Predictably, Checa went out all guns blazing in the first session and was a third of a second ahead of Laverty before Guintoli rescued himself from elimination with his last lap which also dumped Alitalia Aprilia's Leon Camier into the drop zone and then out.
His team-mate Biaggi is riding injured with bust bone in his foot but still set the fourth fastest time while Sykes went from drop zone to fourth with a single circulation. Rea was also hovering on the edge but jumped up to eighth before slipping back to 11th.
ELIMINATED
Leon Camier
Maxine Berger
Ayrton Badovini
Joan Lascorz
