Checa wins his fourth Superpole in Salt Lake City
The rain and cold seemed to have turned the table and changed the values ??that had emerged from the first day of practice yesterday and spoke of a clearly superior to all Checa. In qualifying this morning it was only the fourth and Carlos was particularly by almost three seconds off Camier, who commanded the standings. Even in practice prior to the rider Superpole Althea maintained a detachment from the English in April by nearly three seconds and even slipped in tenth position. With this background, this could be the prerogative of Superpole seemed Camier Checa with a clear difficulty in the wet and slippery. But just a few minutes Superpole to subvert the odds once again.
Camier fell into ruin and destroy his Aprilia. He could get back on track with the second bike for the first twelve and then enter the access to phase two for a split second. Biaggi won the first stage before Guintoli, Laverty and Melandri, with Checa only eighth. Remained conspicuously excluded both the Castrol Honda team riders, Rea and Xaus (and say that the Dutch team had carried out two days of testing at this track to prepare for the best weekend of racing), and two Suzuki riders: the battered Fabrizio, that in addition to the influence of poor adherence problems also accused of his Suzuki and Yoshimura rider, wild card Waters.
Meanwhile the rain had stopped falling and the track was drying. The long shadow of Checa and then returned to lengthen the runway of Miller Motorsports and in fact behind a fast Smrz who won the second session, we just Checa, trailing by half a second from the Liberty team rider. Behind the two Ducati, goes in Laverty, Biaggi, Guintoli, Corser, a fantastic Badovini and Melandri. Excluding a surprise Leon Haslam, author of a right that the de facto excluded from the struggle for stage three, Haga, Sykes and Camier was clearly not at ease with his number two bike.
This brings us to the last phase of this fifth Superpole seasonal, with the track showed that dry patches as well as strips of water going through it completely. Difficult conditions, where it takes skill, courage and experience. Smrz when it seemed that he could celebrate his first pole seasonal, with a flash Checa crossed the line beyond the pilot of the Czech Republic for only 75 milliseconds. The paw of the lion. Complete the first row the two Yamaha riders Marco Melandri and Laverty, consistently fast in all conditions and that tomorrow along with Biaggi seem the only ones capable of countering the dominance of Spanish Ducati. A Guintoli finally healed opens the second row consists of Corser, Biaggi and Badovini. The Corsair was giving the assault on the first position when he made a right and then almost fell on the lawn situation. Badovini confirms a beautiful reality of Superbike, confirming the good things he had seen in the Superstock 1000 and before that with the Kawasaki team Pedercini.
And tomorrow? Races that await us? The predictions are for a slow improvement in the weather and so it is said that the competitions will be played on a wet track. If the track is dry and if the Ducati’s Carlos will not make the tantrums, the pilot of the Althea team starts big favorite, the Yamaha and Aprilia leaving the task to act as trackers. But if it should rain the races will be open to any outcome, with special attention to Guintoli and Laverty, who proved to be comfortable under water. Has truly demonstrated Camier, but English is still too inconsistent and prone to error. Melandri and Biaggi were always fast, but in case of dry conditions do not seem to keep pace with the wild Checa.
Will still be two games although not miss to see the race to the bottom two have to do the small hours, as the street will be given at 23.30 Italian time.
Rank
1. Carlos Checa (Althea Racing) Ducati 1098R 1’58 .315
2. Jakub Smrz (Team Racing-Liberty Effenbert) Ducati 1098R 1’58 .390
3. Marco Melandri (Yamaha World Superbike Team) 1’58 .609 Yamaha YZF R1
4. Eugene Laverty (Yamaha World Superbike Team) 1’58 .860 Yamaha YZF R1
5. Sylvain Guintoli (Effenbert-Liberty Racing Team) Ducati 1098R 1’59 .069
6. Troy Corser (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) 1’59 .262 BMW RR S1000
7. Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia Racing Team) 1’59 .736 Aprilia RSV4 Factory
8. Ayrton Badovini (Italy BMW Motorrad Superbike Team) 1’59 .827 BMW S1000 RR
9. Noriyuki Haga (PATA Racing Team Aprilia) 2’00 .303 Aprilia RSV4 Factory
10. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team Superbike) Kawasaki ZX-10R 2’00 .477
11. Leon Camier (Alitalia Aprilia Racing Team) 2’00 .643 Aprilia RSV4 Factory
12. Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) 2’01 .127 BMW S1000 RR
13. Jonathan Rea (Castrol Honda) Honda CBR1000RR 2’03 .232
14. Ruben Xaus (Castrol Honda) Honda CBR1000RR 2’03 .382
15. Michel Fabrizio (Team Alstare Suzuki) Suzuki GSX-R1000 2’03 .397
16. Joshua Waters (Yoshimura Suzuki Racing Team) Suzuki GSX-R1000 2’04 .156
17. Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki Racing Team) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1’50 .195
18. James Toseland (Italy BMW Motorrad Superbike Team) 1’50 .306 BMW S1000 RR
19. Mark Aitchison (Team Pedercini) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1’50 .646
20. Maxime Berger (Supersonic Racing Team) Ducati 1098R 1’50 .717
21. Roberto Rolfo (Team Pedercini) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1’51 .586
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/lov-F-fuDlh/Checa+wins+fourth+Superpole+Salt+Lake+City
Pierluigi Aldrovanti Alejandro Aleman Eduardo Aleman Jaime Alguesuari
