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Provisional front row for Foret

September 23 2011

Fabien Foret set the fourth fastest time in today’s opening qualifying session for round 10 of the World Supersport championship at Imola in Italy, securing a provisional front row start for Sunday’s race.

Local rider Luca Scassa was fastest today, as Foret’s Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team-mate, Florian Marino, set the sixth fastest time.

Second qualifying takes places at the recently resurfaced 4.936km Imola circuit tomorrow afternoon to determine final grid positions for Sunday’s 19-lap race.

Fabien Foret – P4 1m53.056s

This morning was very comfortable, actually, and I was very happy with the bike. But the temperature was a bit higher this afternoon. It meant that the bike was not quite so easy to ride as this morning so we might have to do a little bit of fine-tuning to get the setting better for the warmer conditions.

Florian Marino - P 6 1m53.329s

Today wasn’t too bad and I was able to make some quite consistent laps. I need to improve a bit in the final two sectors where I am losing maybe 0.4s but the bike is definitely feeling better compared to Nurburgring. We need to keep improving the bike and my riding, but overall I am quite happy to be nearer the front. Tomorrow we’ll see how tyre life is on some used tyres and see how ready we are for the race.

Ronald ten Kate – team manager

We’re quite satisfied with the first day of work at Imola. The riders have already found a very good rhythm and we just need to look at some details to find the last bit of speed. We are already close to a good race setup though and we did more than race distance this morning with Fabien which shows that already the machine is gelling very well with Imola.

2011 World Supersport championship, round ten – Imola, Italy
First qualifying results:
1 Luca Scassa (ITA) Yamaha 1m52.375s
2 Broc Parkes (AUS) Kawasaki 1m53.553s
3 Chaz Davies (GBR) Yamaha 1m52.736s
4 Fabien Foret (FRA) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda 1m53.056s
5 Alex Lundh (SWE) Honda 1m53.301s
6 Florian Marino (FRA) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda 1m53.329s