Superpole three
Ben Spies 1'37.709
Jonathan Rea 1'38.181
Michel Fabrizio 1'38.196

Sterilgarda Yamaha's Ben Spies has taken pole position at Magny-Cours this afternoon with a sensational final lap which saw him go half a second quicker than Ten Kate Honda's Jonathan Rea.

Rea must have thought he had done enough with his 1'38.181 lap time but Spies, in his usual style, put in a qualifier and demolished the young Irishman's time.

Xerox Ducati's Michel Fabrizio took third with his last lap and pushed team-mate Noriyuki Haga on to the head of the second as Max Biaggi, on the Aprilia, has just jumped to fourth.

Stiggy Honda's Leon Haslam is in the middle of row two with Fonsi Nieto in seventh and BMW's Troy Corser in eighth.

Superpole two
Ben Spies 1'38.116
Jonathan Rea 1'38.313
Troy Corser 1'38.480

Spies set the fastest lap of the weekend so far with his flying lap and Rea  continued to keep up his front runniinf pace. Corser got his last qualifying tyre in and move to third with the final lap.

The Aussie's third-place lap time was quick enough to knock out Shane Byrne, who had just elevated himself to eighth the lap before. Haga was sweating in his garage as he was sitting in seventh but survived to go through to the third session.

ELIMINATED
Shane Byrne
Jakub Smrz
Karl Muggeridge
Carlos Checa
Yukio Kagayama
Tom Sykes
Ruben Xaus
Leon Camier

Superpole one
Leon Haslam 1'38.770
Jonathan Rea 1'38.778
Ben Spies 1'38.886

Rea and Haslam were first out on track and set their quickest time with their sole flying laps while Spies also only did one lap to secure his place in third.

Xaus clawed his way into the second session, getting 14th with his last lap which knocked Ten Kate Honda's Ryuichi Kiyonari into the exclusion zone. Byrne and Sykes only just squeezed through while Camier used a qualifier to take 13th place.

ELIMINATED
Ryuichi Kiyonari
Matteo Baiocco
Broc Parkes
David Salom
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