Carlos Checa secured provisional pole during the first qualifying session for World Superbikes at the Nurburgring, heading up another fleet of Ducatis on the front row. Ducati's domination was only broken by Troy Corser, who put his BMW S1000RR between Checa and the remainder of the Althea Ducati and Xerox Ducati teams. Michel Fabrizio took 3rd spot for the factory team, while Checa's teammate Shane Byrne took the final spot on the provisional front row. Championship leader Max Biaggi put his Alitalia Aprilia into 6th, while his main rival, Alstare Suzuki's Leon Haslam, could manage only the 11th fastest time.

According to one report on the Dutch website Racesport.nl, Leon Camier fractured his right wrist in a crash, and will take no further part in the weekend's action.

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Ten Kate Honda's Kenan Sofuoglu is on provisional pole for the German round of World Supersport, but the Turkish rider has only the smallest of advantages. Sofuoglu finished just one thousandths of a second ahead of ParkinGO Triumph's David Salom, who took over 2nd spot from Intermoto Czech's Gino Rea. Katsuaki Fujiwara rounds out the provisional front row, while Sofuoglu's main challenger for the title, Parkalgar Honda's Eugene Laverty, ended the day in 5th.

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Alex de Angelis has made a very strong return to the Moto2 class after his brief and less successful sojourn in MotoGP. De Angelis topped the first session of free practice on the JIR Motobi machine, beating out a bevy of Suters headed by Mapfre Aspar's Julian Simon. Technomag CIP's Shoya Tomizawa was 3rd fastest, while Forward racing's Claudio Corti ended the day in 4th. Current championship leader Toni Elias - sporting San Carlo colors for the Gresini team's home race - ended the session in 6th, ahead of another man switching rides, ahead of Mattia Pasini on the Italtrans Suter bike.

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Dani Pedrosa's outstanding form continues, the Spaniard crossing the Atlantic after winning in Indianapolis, then setting the fastest time in the first session of free practice for the MotoGP class at Misano. Pedrosa's advantage was sizable, the Repsol Honda rider besting his teammate Andrea Dovizioso by over six tenths of a second. Jorge Lorenzo looked like getting close to Pedrosa's time, but once Pedrosa upped the pace to drop into the 1'34 bracket, Lorenzo could not follow, ending the session in 3rd behind the Repsol Honda pair.

Lorenzo headed up a gaggle of Yamahas, finishing ahead of Fiat Yamaha teammate Rossi by just under a tenth of a second, and the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha pairing of Colin Edwards and Ben Spies. Another pair of teammates finished in 7th and 8th, Nicky Hayden ending ahead of a deflated Casey Stoner, who told the press yesterday that he simply could not get any more out of the current version of the Ducati. 

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Eugene Laverty took charge of the first session of Free Practice for the World Supersport class at the Nurburgring, taking over the top spot with late fast lap with a few minutes left in the session. The Parkalgar Honda man demoted Ten Kate's Kenan Sofuoglu in the process, the Turkish rider taking 2nd ahead of Motocard Kawasaki's Katsuaki Fujiwara. The young Londoner Gino Rea continued his improvement, setting the 4th fastest time on the Intermoto Czech Honda.

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Nico Terol has brought his outstanding form back across the Atlantic with him, topping the timesheets in the first session of free practice at Misano for the 125cc class. The Bancaja Aspar rider had a quarter of a second advantage over Marc Marquez, who lost a big chunk of his championship lead in Indianapolis, and needs to regain the momentum. Marquez finished ahead of the Tuenti Derbi pairing of Pol Espargaro and Efren Vazquez, the latter suffering a mechanical problem towards the end of the session.

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The two days of practice that the Ducati team had at Mugello earlier this week appears to have paid off, and not just for Michel Fabrizio and Noriyuki Haga. The top of the timesheets was awash with Ducatis during the first session of free practice at the Nurburgring, with four of them in the top five positions. But it was not a Ducati in the very top spot, Max Biaggi setting the fastest time on the Alitalia Aprilia, and looking in good shape to lock down the World Superbike title as the series enters its final stages. Fabrizio was 2nd fastest, and just over five hundredths off Biaggi, while Althea Ducati's Carlos Checa interposed himself between Fabrizio and Haga in 4th.

Places 5 through 8 were taken by the British contingent. Althea Ducati's Shane Byrne was the fastest Brit, ahead of Ten Kate Honda's Johnny Rea and Sterilgarda Yamaha's Cal Crutchlow in 7th. Championship contender Leon Haslam could only manage the 8th fastest time on the Alstare Suzuki, nearly two thirds of a second slower than Biaggi.

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