Source: WorldSBK.

Saturday’s Tissot-Superpole qualifying sessions at the Imola circuit were scintillating, with Davide Giugliano (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati Superbike Team) securing the fourth pole position of his WorldSBK career.

It was also the 166th for Ducati in the series, thanks to a 1m46.382s lap time and despite a near crash at ‘Variante Bassa’ while changing direction.

For Giugliano today’s result marked an emotional return to the series following his injury at the official pre-season test in Australia last February.

The Kawasaki Racing Team duo of Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea will join the Italian rider on the front row of the grid tomorrow in what are shaping up to be two very unpredictable races as the top-5 on the grid are separated by a mere 0.472s.

Row two will comprise Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team), Leon Haslam (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils), despite a small crash in the session and the second Aprilia RSV4 RF machine of Jordi Torres.

Leandro Mercado (Barni Racing Ducati) heads the third row with his so far best ever qualifying performance in the series, he will be joined by Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorrad Italia) and Michael van der Mark (Pata Honda World Superbike Team), while David Salom (Team Pedercini), Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) and Leon Camier (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) will start from row four.

Camier was unable to take part in the final Pole Position shootout after suffering a technical problem in the closing minutes of the opening Superpole session.

Michel Fabrizio, his Althea Racing team mate Matteo Baiocco, reigning world champion Sylvain Guintoli (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) complete the top 15 riders on the grid ahead of tomorrow’s two 19-lap races.

Jules Cluzel (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) his fourth pole position of the 2015 World Supersport championship, finishing the 45-minute qualifying session only 0.037s ahead of current series leader Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing).

Marco Faccani (San Carlo Puccetti Racing) will join the duo on row one, the young Italian who won last year’s STK600 crown claiming a maiden WSS top three race start.

AARK Racing’s Glenn Scott qualified 18th quickest, two positions ahead of countryman Aiden Wagner, who’s on debut with the Kawasaki Intermoto ZX-6R.

Ondrej Jezek (Triple M by Barni) secured pole position for the FIM Superstock 1000cc Cup race in emphatic style by smashing his own outright circuit best lap, set earlier in the weekend, to take top spot by 0.331s.

Last year’s winner has been fast all weekend and will be hoping for back to back wins at the Italian venue come race time tomorrow.

Raffaele de Rosa (Althea Racing Ducati) moved into provisional pole before crashing his Ducati. The Italian will start second, with Roberto Tamburini (Team Motoxracing BMW) completing the front row. Bryan Staring (Pedercini Kawasaki) will start from 10th.

Round 4 of the FIM Europe Superstock 600cc Championship was decided in favour of after a race long dual saw Toprak Razgatlioglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) pip wildcard entry Roberto Mercandelli (Roberto Mercandelli Team Yamaha) to victory.

The Turk, who extends his lead in the series after his fourth victory of the year, set a new lap record as he gave chase to Federico Caricasulo (Pata Honda Junior Team), the Italian crashing out on the final lap after swapping places several times with Toprak.

Mercandelli benefited from the mistake to grab second ahead of fellow Italian Andrea Tucci (San Carlo Team Italia Kawasaki). Australian Lachlan Epis crossed the line in 27th.

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