Source: WorldSBK.

Leon Haslam (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) will start tomorrow’s two WorldSBK races of the third round of the eni FIM Superbike World Championship from pole position.

A lap time of 1m49.664s, the fastest of the weekend so far and the quickest ever for a superbike on the new MotorLand Aragon configuration, left the Englishman 0.033s ahead of his nearest rivals Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati Superbike Team).

Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) will join them on the front row. For Haslam this is his first pole position since Phillip Island in 2010 and only the second of his career.

Row two will see championship leader Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) aboard his Ninja ZX-10, Xavi Fores who continues his impressive debut weekend on the second of the Aruba.it Ducati Superbike Team) and Ayrton Badovini.

The third row was decided in the final seconds of the session, with Jordi Torres (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) taking seventh. He will start alongside Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) and Nico Terol (Althea Racing Ducati).

Leandro Mercado (Barni Racing Ducati), Michael van der Mark (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) and David Salom (Team Pedercini Kawasaki) complete the top-12 in a grid that sees five manufacturers inside the top 10.

Earlier, Badovini and Lowes were the two riders to progress from Superpole 1 into the final 15-minute shootout, as reigning champion Sylvain Guintoli (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) and Randy de Puniet (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) missed out on one of the top two places available, the pair qualifying 14th and 19th respectively.

Jules Cluzel (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) will start tomorrow’s 16-lap World Supersport race from pole position after stealing the leading position from former champion Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) with his final lap of the session.

American PJ Jacobsen (Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres) will join the pair on the front row. For Cluzel, today’s result marked the 12th Pole Position of his World Supersport career, and the second in 2015, after Phillip Island.

Behind the leading trio, Pata Honda’s Kyle Smith, Lucas Mahias (Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres) and Lorenzo Zanetti (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) will assemble on row two, the top six covered by (+1.084s).

Championship leader Ratthapark Wilairot (CORE Motorsport Thailand) will line up on row three in 8th position, just behind Phillip Island podium finisher and former Moto2 rider Gino Rea (CIA Landlords Insurance Honda).

Australia’s Glenn Scott (AARK Racing Honda) qualified 19th, while in Superstock 1000 Bryan Staring (Pedercini Kawasaki) was sixth and in Superstock 600 Lachlan Epis was 30th in his race debut.

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