Superbike Aragon: First qualifying goes to Eugene Laverty
The Aprilia rider placed ahead of Davies, Sykes and Marco Melandri
Eugene Laverty achieved the best time in the first qualifying sessions of the second round of the Superbike World Championship in Aragon. The Aprilia rider stopped the clock at Motorland at a time of 1'58.548, a time just over a tenth better than that set by Chaz Davies' BMW, who lapped in 1'58.652 aboard his S1000 RR.
Third time for Tom Sykes, who brought his Kawasaki ZX-10R up to a time of 1'58.887 and fourth for our Marco Melandri, riding the second official BMW S1000 RR of the Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team. The rider from Ravenna lapped in 1'58.944, the last of the riders to break the 59:1 minute mark. Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike), who was fourth, achieved a 59.060'XNUMX, a time that places him ahead of the second official Aprilia , that of the Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli.
Seventh and eighth times for the two Team Fixi Crescent Suzukis of Leon Camier and Jules Cluzel, preceding the Frenchman Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) and our Davide Giugliano, who closes the Top Ten with the Aprilia of Team Althea. Uphill qualifying for Ducati, with Carlos Checa twelfth and Ayrtin Badovini fourteenth. Roman Michel Fabrizio placed between the two, riding the Aprilia of Team Red Devils Roma. It should be noted that Leon Camier, who fell, suffered a hole in his knee and as a precaution will not race. His Aragon ends here.
Aragon – FIM Superbike World Championship – Qualifying 1
1. Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'58.548
2. Chaz Davies (BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK) BMW S1000 RR 1'58.652
3. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'58.887
4. Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK) BMW S1000 RR 1'58.944
5. Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike) Honda CBR1000RR 1'59.060
6. Sylvain Guintoli (Aprilia Racing Team) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'59.144
7. Leon Camier (Fixi Crescent Suzuki) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1'59.379
8. Jules Cluzel (Fixi Crescent Suzuki) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1'59.414
9. Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'59.423
10. Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'59.599
11. Leon Haslam (Pata Honda World Superbike) Honda CBR1000RR 1'59.599
12. Carlos Checa (Team Ducati Alstare) Ducati 1199 Panigale R 2'00.004
13. Michel Fabrizio (Red Devils Roma) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 2'00.199
14. Ayrton Badovini (Team Ducati Alstare) Ducati 1199 Panigale R 2'00.688
15. Alexander Lundh (Team Pedercini) Kawasaki ZX-10R 2'01.041
16. Max Neukirchner (MR-Racing) Ducati 1199 Panigale R 2'01.658
17. Federico Sandi (Team Pedercini) Kawasaki ZX-10R 2'01.928
18. Vittorio Iannuzzo (Grillini Dentalmatic SBK) BMW S1000 RR 2'03.201
19. Ivan Clementi (HTM Racing) BMW S1000 RR 2'03.233
20. Mark Aitchison (Team Effenbert Liberty Racing) Ducati 1098R 2'04.169
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A gift for Fatman…:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NnC-WDfmS4
The final begins at minute 9.29 I think….
Anyone who has never ridden a 500 2-stroke motocross bike….has saved themselves a big scare….
When supermotard was raced with these 2-stroke bikes... I think the riders didn't play with them as much as they do today with the 4-strokes...
…other stories, other bikes and, above all, other riders…Lawson apologized to Honda in the first race in '89 because he had finished third…he had declared that that year Honda was so superior that it would have needed an additional reserved lane (his words)… I must say that he had sweated the world championship… if Rainey hadn't crashed in Sweden (it seems to me) maybe it would have gone differently… and then I still remember him at the Italian GP with Cagiva, first lap ahead of Doohan and Schwantz …at that moment we saw the champion who gives everything he has…a bit like the geriatrician during his 2 years in Ducati!!!
I'll make a few confessions to you now...:
throughout my short career...I almost always raced with the number 21...which was Lawson's number when he raced in the American superbike...the choice of my number was not random because at that time Lawson was my idol...because he raced with Kawasaki… (my first bike was the Kawasaki 15 Mach III when I was 500 and a half years old, a rocket that made me fall in love with the brand forever…).
Now, after many years of looking for it, I bought a wonderful and original Z1000R ELR a couple of months ago in Holland to add to my small motorbike collection (it's the second Kawasaki together with the KR1S 250)....yesterday I rode it for the first time. time after many years (I already had it as a boy) and it's surprising how much fun it is still today... (mine is 1170 Wiseco with Yoshimura cams, and it's better than the original obviously).
Have a nice weekend.
Roberto
ps
Needless to say, the Z1000R was the bike with which Eddie Lawson raced in the American superbike, and with which he won the title fighting with Freddie Spencer in both 1981 and 1982... and in his honor Kawasaki built a very small series of these replicas today not easy to find…
...I remember, we had already talked about Eddie and Kawa...the other users of the forum are too young and too fans to remember certain things...as you can see they don't post where the orthopedist isn't talked about...I write here to have fun, certainly not to exchange opinions with people who know a 100th of what I know, without a motorbike and mentally deviant... the geriatrician is now in fashion, we'll see in three or four years how many will still be in here... as long as I don't give up first ah, ah , ah…