The current World Superbike Champion, the Turkish Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with Brixx) signed on ‘pol’ of the first trial World Championship 2022 which will take place this weekend MotorLand Aragon and this has been done with a new record.
The Ottoman pilot overtook the Spaniards Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing-Ducati) of just six thousand on one of the tightest margins between the top two riders on the grid in Superbike history, while the Briton Jonathan Rhea (Kawasaki Racing Team) will complete the front row after posting the third fastest chance.
Alvaro Bautista He led the time in the first few minutes, but in the final moments of the 15 -minute session, the current World Champion snatched the pole position from the Spaniard with a new lap record (1’48.267) that gave the Turkish a fifth post. his career and the first for Yamaha in the first qualifying session since Ben Spies ’debut in 2009 on Phillip Island.
The return of Baptist Ducati allowed him to score his first set since the Barcelona Superpole in 2020, while Jonathan Rhea signed the third fastest time to put the three manufacturers in the top three.
The winner of the MotorLand Aragón 2020 race, Michael Rubén Rinaldi (Aruba.it Racing-Ducati), was fourth, his best result at the Superpole since Assen last year.
alex goes down (Kawasaki Racing Team) had a good start to the season with fifth place in qualifying and will start in the second row for the second consecutive year in Aragón, while andrea locatelli (Pata Yamaha with Brixx) is sixth.
The Spanish Iker LecuonaSi, rookie at Honda (Team HRC), puts together some very impressive performances. The Valencian set the seventh fastest time of the session and lead the third set, which equates to the team’s best result at the Aragon Superpole in 2021.
Next to him will begin another rider who was surprised by the session, Illia Mykhalchyk (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team), who finished as the best in BMW to take over the injured Michael van der Mark.
The 25-year-old Ukrainian is eighth ahead Axel Bassani (Motocorsa Racing) at loris baz (Bonovo Action BMW), and tenth.
Some Championship numbers are left in the ‘top 10’, including Garrett Gerloff (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) in eleventh place ahead of the German rookie Philipp Oettlwhile the Spaniards Xavi Verge (Team HRC) will start from the thirteenth position forward Eugene Laverty (Bonovo Action BMW) at Roberto Tamburini (Yamaha Motoxracing), fourteenth.
Another well -known pilot, scott redding (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) did not get past sixteenth place.
Super pole results:
1. Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with Brixx) 1’48.267
2. Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing-Ducati) +0.006
3. Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) +0.209
4. Michael Ruben Rinaldi (Aruba.it Racing-Ducati) +0.488
5. Alex Lowes (Kawasaki Racing Team) +0.719
6. Andrea Locatelli (Pata Yamaha with Brixx) +0.731
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Source: La Verdad
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