The second World Superbike free practice at the Motorland Aragon saw Eugene Laverty regain the top of the timesheets with a blistering lap of 1’57″409, that lowered Tom Sykes QP2 time by more three tenths of a second in preparation for this afternoon’s Superpole but also ahead of tomorrow’s double header.
Sykes finshed second in the 45 minute session, but his improvement was barely minimal compared to Laverty’s lap time.
Marco Melandri made a massive jump forward to third, partially solving the chattering problems on his BMW S1000RR that plagued him in qualifying this morning, bettering himself by almost seven tenths from QP2.
Jonathan Rea dropped to fourth accusing more than 1.
1 seconds from Laverty.
Chaz Davies finished fifth but his BMW had some sort of technical issue that forced him to skip the final minutes of the session.
Sylvain Guintoli seems to have some problems with the Aragon circuit as he was almost 1.
6 seconds from his Aprilia team mate, while Davide Giugliano on the Althea Aprilia was almost four tenths slower than his factory counterpart.
Loris Baz took eighth with his Kawasaki ZX-10R and he was followed by Fixi Crescent Suzuki’s Jules Cluzel who was a massive two seconds off pace.
Carlos Checa closed out the top ten, and for the first time this weekend was able to break the two minute mark, but the Ducati’s are clearly suffering much more at Aragon than at Phillip Island.
WSBK Aragon FP2 results:01- Eugene Laverty – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – 1’57.
409 02- Tom Sykes – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 0.
316 03- Marco Melandri – BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team – BMW S1000RR – + 0.
804 04- Jonathan Rea – Pata Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 1.
153 05- Chaz Davies – BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team – BMW S1000RR – + 1.
218 06- Sylvain Guintoli – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 1.
559 07- Davide Giugliano – Althea Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 1.
954 08- Loris Baz – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 1.
960 09- Jules Cluzel – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 2.
095 10- Carlos Checa – Team Ducati Alstare – Ducati 1199 Panigale R – + 2.
170 11- Leon Haslam – Pata Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 2.
327 12- Michel Fabrizio – Red Devils Roma – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 2.
626 13- Ayrton Badovini – Team Ducati Alstare – Ducati 1199 Panigale R – + 2.
628 14- Max Neukirchner – MR Racing – Ducati 1199 Panigale R – + 3.
507 15- Federico Sandi – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 4.
049 16- Alexander Lundh – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 4.
218 17- Mark Aitchison – Team Effenbert Liberty Racing – Ducati 1098R – + 4.
639 18- Ivan Clementi – HTM Racing – BMW S1000RR – + 6.
309 19- Vittorio Iannuzzo – Grillini Dentalmatic SBK – BMW S1000RR – + 6.
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