Max Biaggi with the new Aprilia RSV4 took the provisional pole for round three of the 2009 World Superbike Championship, at Valencia.
Biaggi set the quickest time of the day ten minutes before the end of the session with a time of 1’34″775 and was just over a tenth of a second faster than Ben Spies ,who was in front Xerox Ducati’s Noriyuki Haga by just one-thousandth of a second.
The provisional front row was completed by Michel Fabrizio on his Ducati Xerox.
Tom Sykes picked up 5th place despite a crash with his R1 Yamaha.
Guandalini Ducati’s Jakub Smrz in sixth while Max Neukirchner took seventh.
On the new BMW S1000 RR, Troy Corser was 13th fastest, but only 0.
741s off pole, while debuting John Hopkins on his Stiggy Honda took 18th.
Provisional Superpole Results:1 3 Biaggi M.
(ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1′34.
7752 19 Spies B.
(USA) Yamaha YZF R1 1′34.
9073 41 Haga N.
(JPN) Ducati 1098R 1′34.
9084 84 Fabrizio M.
(ITA) Ducati 1098R 1′35.
2435 66 Sykes T.
(GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1′35.
2706 96 Smrz J.
(CZE) Ducati 1098R 1′35.
2787 76 Neukirchner M.
(GER) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′35.
2858 71 Kagayama Y.
(JPN) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′35.
3169 65 Rea J.
(GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1′35.
32810 9 Kiyonari R.
(JPN) Honda CBR1000RR 1′35.
37211 56 Nakano S.
(JPN) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1′35.
41612 55 Laconi R.
(FRA) Ducati 1098R 1′35.
48913 11 Corser T.
(AUS) BMW S1000 RR 1′35.
51614 91 Haslam L.
(GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1′35.
53515 7 Checa C.
(ESP) Honda CBR1000RR 1′35.
54116 23 Parkes B.
(AUS) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′35.
66217 24 Roberts B.
(AUS) Ducati 1098R 1′35.
75518 121 Hopkins J.
(USA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′35.
86819 67 Byrne S.
(GBR) Ducati 1098R 1′36.
05120 25 Salom D.
(ESP) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′36.
08621 100 Tamada M.
(JPN) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′36.
18922 31 Muggeridge K.
(AUS) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′36.
26623 111 Xaus R.
(ESP) BMW S1000 RR 1′36.
40424 86 Badovini A.
(ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′36.
74525 99 Scassa L.
(ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′36.
75826 94 Checa D.
(ESP) Yamaha YZF R1 1′36.
90627 33 Hill T.
(GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1′37.
04128 77 Iannuzzo V.
(ITA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′37.
50929 15 Baiocco M.
(ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′37.
54130 88 Resch R.
(AUT) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′38.
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