Stiggy Honda's Leon Haslam missed at least a second-row start by a tenth of a second at Kyalami today when he was eliminated from the third Superpole session after running off track while using one of his two qualifying tyres.

The former British Superbike contender opted to do the first Superpole session on a soft race tyre, which got him through to the second part of the knockout system, but a bad lap on the first of the super-sticky Pirellis put paid to making into part three.

"We've tried a few different things on tyres in the Free Practice this afternoon. The time I did on the race tyre was pretty good, a .38 flat, so I opted to use it in the Superpole. I went out in the second Superpole on my first qualifier, but I didn't get the best of laps with it, and it put me in fourth position," said Haslam.

"I came in for another qualifier, but then made a little bit of a mistake on my first lap and ran off, and I never got the chance to use the qualifier. Another 10th of a second would have gotten me through to the final shoot out. It was a luck of the draw, but I am pretty happy with the progress we have made today, and am looking forward to racing tomorrow."