WSBK Donington OP1 – Fabrizio takes provisional pole

Michel Fabrizio took provisional pole position with a 1′30.
775 lap this afternoon in a wet to dry qualifying session at Donington Park, only four tenths of a second from Troy Bayliss’s 2007 record.
Leon Haslam was second, but four tenths from the Xerox Ducati rider.
Third was Ben Spies who could not better his earlier free practice times.

Former BSB Champion, Gregorio Lavilla was fourth fastest with his Guandalini Ducati while another BSB Champion, Shane Byrne was fifth even if binned his Ducati.
Wild card Leon Camier who is leading in this year’s BSB Championship took sixth.
Jakub Smrz, the other Ducati Guandalini rider was seventh and Lorenzo Lanzi on the private Ducati DFX, 8th.
Carlos Checa was 9th while points leader Noriyuki Haga rounded out the top ten.
Tom Sykes and James Ellison didn’t make it into the top ten, ending the day in 11th and 12th.
Max Biaggi who turned 38 today was 13th, while John Hopkins lost seven positions from the first free practice to take 14th.
Winner of Misano race 2, Jonathan Rea was only 15th.
Both BMW riders made the cut for tomorrow’s Superpole with Xaus in 17th and Troy Corser 20th.

Ryuichi Kiyonari who won last year’s race was 23rd and Blake Young who is making his first European appearance on the Alstare Suzuki was 28th.
After the jump QP1 results.
WSBK 2009 Donington Park QP1:1 84 Fabrizio M.
(ITA) Ducati 1098R 1′30.
7752 91 Haslam L.
(GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1′31.
1913 19 Spies B.
(USA) Yamaha YZF R1 1′31.
2944 36 Lavilla G.
(ESP) Ducati 1098R 1′31.
4015 67 Byrne S.
(GBR) Ducati 1098R 1′31.
4366 22 Camier L.
(GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1′31.
4547 96 Smrz J.
(CZE) Ducati 1098R 1′31.
5848 57 Lanzi L.
(ITA) Ducati 1098R 1′31.
7059 7 Checa C.
(ESP) Honda CBR1000RR 1′31.
73610 41 Haga N.
(JPN) Ducati 1098R 1′31.
76011 66 Sykes T.
(GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1′31.
83812 27 Ellison J.
(GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1′31.
89013 3 Biaggi M.
(ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1′31.
91314 121 Hopkins J.
(USA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′32.
00715 65 Rea J.
(GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1′32.
10316 71 Kagayama Y.
(JPN) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′32.
13917 111 Xaus R.
(ESP) BMW S1000 RR 1′32.
18618 56 Nakano S.
(JPN) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1′32.
18819 23 Parkes B.
(AUS) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′32.
40120 11 Corser T.
(AUS) BMW S1000 RR 1′32.
47621 14 Lagrive M.
(FRA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′32.
87922 99 Scassa L.
(ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′33.
06123 9 Kiyonari R.
(JPN) Honda CBR1000RR 1′33.
09324 25 Salom D.
(ESP) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′33.
26225 2 Hacking J.
(USA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′33.
58726 117 Andrews S.
(GBR) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′34.
06927 94 Checa D.
(ESP) Yamaha YZF R1 1′34.
25928 79 Young B.
(USA) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′34.
52929 77 Iannuzzo V.
(ITA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′35.
12630 88 Resch R.
(AUT) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′35.
176 31 53 Polita A.
(ITA) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′43.
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