World Superbikes’s first qualifying session at Monza was longly delayed as the track had to be cleaned up after Mitchell Carr’s Triumph leaked oil from the Serraglio to the Ascari chicane during Supersport qualifying.
The QP1 started with some sun and a dry track so lap times dropped with Marco Melandri taking over the top of the timesheets with a best lap of 1′42.
883, even if their were some drops of rain during the halfway mark, which fortunately didn’t turn into a rain show.
Jonathan Rea also moved forward to take second in the finale, demoting Aprilia’s Sylvain Guintoli to third after he led most of the practice.
Tom Sykes was fourth and more than six tenths from Melandri and followed by three Aprilia riders, Althea’s Davide Giugliano, Red Devil’s Michel Fabrizio and Aprilia factory’s Eugene Laverty.
Loris Baz was 8th fastest, while Fixi Suzuki’s Leon Camier and Jules Cluzel closed out the top ten.
Chaz Davies was only 13th but he crashed out in the first minutes of the session at turn 8 and was unable to return to track because his BMW was scattered in serveral pieces.
As expected on a dry track the Ducati riders were much slower, Carlos Checa and Ayrton Badovin, were 11th and 12 respectively losing more than 20km/h in top speed.
Checa’s top speed on the Panigale was 311,2 compared to Marco Melandri’s 331,4.
2013 WSBK Monza QP1 Results:01- Marco Melandri – BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team – BMW S1000RR – 1’42.
883 02- Jonathan Rea – Pata Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 0.
274 03- Sylvain Guintoli – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.
627 04- Tom Sykes – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 0.
638 05- Davide Giugliano – Althea Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.
740 06- Michel Fabrizio – Red Devils Roma – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.
966 07- Eugene Laverty – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 1.
073 08- Loris Baz – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 1.
078 09- Leon Camier – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 1.
223 10- Jules Cluzel – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 1.
583 11- Carlos Checa – Team Ducati Alstare – Ducati 1199 Panigale R – + 1.
880 12- Ayrton Badovini – Team Ducati Alstare – Ducati 1199 Panigale R – + 1.
940 13- Chaz Davies – BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team – BMW S1000RR – + 2.
109 14- Max Neukirchner – MR Racing – Ducati 1199 Panigale R – + 2.
972 15- Federico Sandi – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 3.
453 16- Fabrizio Lai – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 4.
309 17- Kousuke Akiyoshi – Pata Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 4.
318 18- Vittorio Iannuzzo – Grillini Dentalmatic SBK – BMW S1000RR – + 4.
626 19- Mark Aitchison – Team Effenbert Liberty Racing – Ducati 1098R – + 4.
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