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Qualifying report

Misano WSBK: Sykes beats Rea to top qualifying

Kawasaki rider Tom Sykes scored his sixth pole of the World Superbike season by going quickest in qualifying at Misano ahead of teammate Jonathan Rea.

Tom Sykes, Kawasaki Racing

Tom Sykes, Kawasaki Racing

Kawasaki Racing Team

The first superpole session, which saw Lorenzo Savadori and Leon Camier go through, ended with the engine of Saeed Al Sulaiti breaking down and spilling oil on track.

Following a 20-minute delay, Superpole 2 kicked off with Rea, Sykes, and the Ducatis of Xavi Fores and Chaz Davies only separated by 0.07s in the top four.

Meanwhile, the latter's teammate at the factory Ducati team, Davide Giugliano crashed before setting a time and missed the first half of the session.

However, he started the second stint earlier than the rest of the field and took provisional pole by half a second.

The Italian was soon shuffled down the order with Rea retaking the top spot, his 1m34.257s time giving him an advantage of three tenths.

Yet, he ended up settling for second thanks to Sykes making a last-second improvement.

Fores took his best qualifying result of his campaign in third, followed by Yamaha's Alex Lowes, who returns to action after skipping the previous round due to injury.

The Briton narrowly edged out Savadori's Aprilia and Nicky Hayden's Honda as Giugliano completed the top seven.

Camier ended up eighth with Davies only settling for ninth, four tenths slower than non-factory Ducati rider Fores.

Michael van der Mark, Markus Reiterberger and Jordi Torres rounded out the SP2 order.

Full results

Cla#DriverBikeTimeGapkm/h
1 66  Tom Sykes  Kawasaki 1'34.037   161.783
2 1  Jonathan Rea  Kawasaki 1'34.257 0.220 161.405
3 12  Xavi Forés  Ducati 1'34.623 0.586 160.781
4 22  Alex Lowes  Yamaha 1'34.641 0.604 160.750
5 32  Lorenzo Savadori  Aprilia 1'34.694 0.657 160.660
6 69  Nicky Hayden  Honda 1'34.707 0.670 160.638
7 34  Davide Giugliano  Ducati 1'34.826 0.789 160.437
8 2  Leon Camier  MV Agusta 1'35.047 1.010 160.063
9 7  Chaz Davies  Ducati 1'35.097 1.060 159.979
10 60  Michael van der Mark  Honda 1'35.108 1.071 159.961
11 21  Markus Reiterberger  BMW 1'35.115 1.078 159.949
12 81  Jordi Torres  BMW 1'36.014 1.977 158.451
13 13  Anthony West  Kawasaki 1'35.765 1.728 158.863
14 40  Roman Ramos  Kawasaki 1'36.328 2.291 157.935
15 59  Niccolo Canepa  Yamaha 1'36.335 2.298 157.923
16 25  Josh Brookes  BMW 1'37.314 3.277 156.335
17 61  Fabio Menghi  Ducati 1'38.143 4.106 155.014
18 9  Dominic Schmitter  Kawasaki 1'38.238 4.201 154.864
19 17  Karel Abraham  BMW 1'38.380 4.343 154.641
20 56  Peter Sebestyen  Yamaha 1'38.446 4.409 154.537
21 11  Saeed Al Sulaiti  Kawasaki 1'38.813 4.776 153.963
22 119  Pawel Szkopek  Yamaha 1'38.975 4.938 153.711
23 4  Gianluca Vizziello  Kawasaki 1'39.171 5.134 153.407
24 15  Alex de Angelis  Aprilia 1'42.023 7.986 149.119

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