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| Kropotkin Thinks | ... that bikes are on track again, and all is right with the world |
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In the return from the long summer break, Jonathan Rea returned to the top of the timing sheet, over half a second quicker than Jordi Torres. Torres was over three tenths of a second quicker than everyone else on his MV Agusta, with Rea's Kawasaki teammate Tom Sykes third quickest and Xavi Fores quickest Ducati in fourth.
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At the last World Superbike race before the summer holiday, the good weather turned up and decided to stay.
World Superbike will be back with the Portimão round, starting on September 14th.
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World Supersport opened with a couple of riders being sent to the back for being too slow on the sighting lap, including Sheridan Morais who suffered a technical difficulty.
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World Supersport Superpole times were set in the weird rain-strewn session on Friday, with Sheridan Morais and Ayrton Badovini the two favourites out of the twenty four competing for promotion.
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The sun stayed out at Misano and a higher temperature track would keep lap times down for the twenty one lap duration.
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The sun returned to World Superbike and, after yesterday's rain-dashed final session, Michael Ruben Rinaldi and Michael van der Mark started the opening Superpole session in the favourite spots to get promoted to the second session.
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Although the rain did eventually stop and the sun did indeed come out, the track remained damp enough for nobody to bother trying to put in a quick lap, with most riders sitting in their garages, chatting to their teams the entire session. Only Leandro Mercado and Jordi Torres recorded a lap time, putting the results from Free Practice two forward as the qualifying times for tomorrow's Superpole.
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Two French riders, a German rider and a Swiss rider topped the timing sheets on their Yamahas, ahead of a South African rider on a Kawasaki. Lucas Mahias and Jules Cluzel were separated at the top by less than two tenths of a second, with Sandro Cortese less than a tenth behind, third quickest. Randy Krummenacher, Sheridan Morais and Marco Bussolotti were all around a half a second further back. The quick times disappeared after just fifteen minutes as the rain arrived and everyone slowed down for the remainder of the session.
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Milwaukee Aprilia teammates Lorenzo Savadori and Eugene Laverty ended the session quickest, ahead of Jonathan Rea and Loris Baz as all of the top seventeen riders improved on their morning's times. Leon Camier, sixth quickest, debuted Honda's new wider body kit, designed to keep the wind off his long legs.
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Federico Caricasulo was the quickest of three Yamahas, ahead of Jules Cluzel and Lucas Mahias, with Raffaele De Rosa on the MV Agusta fourth-quickest.
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Jonathan Rea set the fastest time in the morning's timed session, briefly ceding the top spot for five minutes to his teammate Tom Sykes early on in the session only to set progressively quicker laps throughout the remainder of the session. Alex Lowes sneaked into second place towards the end of the session, pushing Marco Melandri down to third quickest ahead of a resurgent Leon Camier. Tom Sykes, in fifth place, was the only other rider within half a second of Rea's quickest time with Chaz Davies and Loris Baz within two-thirds of a second sixth and seventh quickest respectively.
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Missing Toprak Razgatlioglu, after he was ruled out of the race with a broken toe after his crash at the corkscrew, the race had nineteen riders racing twenty five laps of the short left-handed circuit. The military-themed anthem was performed by a singer backed by a brass band, because America.
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World Superbike race one at Laguna Seca took place on a sunny day in California, with a bunch of tin whistlers leading an anthem singer in typical American style. The anti-clockwise track is one of the shorter ones on the calendar and it lacks long straights, limiting the top speed to under 260km/h.
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Superpole One was contested by ten riders, including wildcard Josh Herrin. Michael van der Mark and Loris Baz were the favourites for promotion going into the session, having qualified eleventh and twelfth quickest respectively.
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Jonathan Rea ended the session and the day quickest, in spite of an early crash in this last session. Marco Melandri improved on his earlier time to go second quickest, qualifying for Superpole two ahead of Tom Sykes.
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