Superpole three
Carlos Checa 1'47.196
Jonathan Rea 1'47.294
Noriyuki Haga 1'47.442
Althea Ducati's Carlos Checa took his sixth World Superbike pole position of the year this afternoon at Imola, snatching top spot from Castrol Honda's Jonathan Rea by less than a tenth of a second with Noriyuki Haga bagging third with his last lap of the session.
PBM Kawasaki's Tom Sykes completes the front row after edging out Yamaha's Eugene Laverty while Leon Haslam once again had to make the best of the performance race tyres give him to take sixth. Ayrton Badovini and Sylvain Guintoli round out the second row.
Superpole two
Noriyuki Haga 1'47.403
Tom Sykes 1'47.425
Carlos Checa 1'47.516
Sykes repeated his second qualifying form from this morning to bag top spot ahead of Rea and Laverty while Haslam found some pace to take fourth but, as the chequered flag came out Checa jumped into second but that was quickly turned into third when Haga found another fast lap to go quickest again.
Camier bit the dust when Guintoli leapt up to seventh fastest and Melandri's last lap rescued him from demotion until Haga pushed him into the relegation zone where he stayed. He was joined by Michel Fabrizio and Supersonic Ducati's Maxine Berger.
ELIMINATED
Marco Melandri
Leon Camier
Michel Fabrizio
Maxine Berger
Superpole one
Eugene Laverty 1'47.756
Noriyuki Haga 1'47.870
Carlos Checa 1'47.875
Haga clearly loves Imola and set his fastest time with his only flying lap on a race tyre. It was bettered by Laverty with a lap just after the chequered flag who went a tenth of a second faster than the Samurai of Slide as Checa just sat waiting in third .
Camier was lucky to get through after BMW Motorrad's Troy Corser abandoned a fast lap halfway through which would have put him ahead of the 2009 British Superbike Champion. The veteran Aussie went out in the first round along with the two wildcards Federico Sandi and Alex Polita, and serial qualifier Jakub Smrz.
ELIMINATED
Jakub Smrz
Federico Sandi
Troy Corser
Alex Polita
