Superbike: Superpole at the last second for Giugliano in Portimao

Yet another extraordinary pole for Davide Giugliano, the fifth in his career, who takes first place on the starting grid for the two races of the seventh round scheduled for tomorrow at the Autodromo do Algarve in Portimao, with a good time of 1'41.764 , four tenths slower than Tom Sykes' best lap of the track (2013), preceding the KRT driver by 116 thousandths.

Teammate Chaz Davies completes the front row, third ahead of an excellent Alex Lowes, promoted to the second round thanks to a great lap in Superpole 1, Leon Haslam, unable to take advantage of the tire for some time, Matteo Baiocco (Althea Racing Ducati ) and Sylvain Guintoli, current champion and clearly improving after the good signs in Donington.

The news of the day was, without a doubt, the fall of Jonathan Rea, who slipped at great speed, during the second flying lap, at the exit of turn 2: an error, the first of the season, which relegated him to eighth position of departure.

Ninth is Jordi Torres who is unable to repeat the excellent performance of this morning's third free practice due to the still poor feeling with the qualifying tyres, while Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorrad Italia), Leandro Mercado (Barni Racing Ducati) will start on the third row ) and David Salom (Team Pedercini Kawasaki).

Appointment tomorrow at 9am with the Warm Up, followed by the start of Race 40 at 11am, while Race 30 is scheduled for 1pm (Italian times).
Below is the starting grid:

1. Davide Giugliano ITA Aruba.it Racing Ducati 1199R 1m 41.764s
2. Tom Sykes GBR Kawasaki Racing ZX-10R 1m 41.880s
3. Chaz Davies GBR Aruba.it Racing Ducati 1199R 1m 42.123s
4. Alex Lowes GBR Voltcom Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000 1m 42.198s
5. Leon Haslam GBR Red Devils Roma Aprilia RSV4 1m 42.217s
6. Matteo Baiocco ITA Althea Ducati 1199R 1m 42.468s
7. Sylvain Guintoli FRA PATA Honda CBR1000RR 1m 42.641s
8. Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki Racing ZX-10R 1m 42.902s
9. Jordi Torres ESP Red Devils Roma Aprilia RSV4 1m 42.975s
10. Ayrton Badovini ITA BMW Italia S1000RR 1m 43.067s
11. Leandro Mercado ARG Barni Ducati 1199R 1m 43.327s
12. David Salom ESP Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 43.609s

Grid positions determined by SP1

13. Michael van der Mark NED PATA Honda CBR1000RR 1m 43.272s
14. Leon Camier GBR MV Agusta F4 RR 1m 43.468s
15. Roman Ramos ESP GO Eleven Kawasaki ZX-10R1m 43.488s
16. Randy de Puniet FRA Voltcom Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000 1m 44.273s
17. Nico Terol ITA Althea Ducati 1199R 1m 44.992s
18. Christophe Ponsson FRA Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 45.066s
19. Santiago Barragan ESP Grillini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 45.640s
20. Niccolo Canepa ITA Grillini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 45.674s

Did not progress to Superpole

21. Gabor Rizmayer HUN Team Toth BMW S1000RR 1m 47.654s
22. Imre Toth HUN Team Toth BMW S1000RR 1m 49.711s