Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) will start tomorrow’s two 23 lap races from Pole Position after taking today’s Tissot-Superpole in an enthralling 15 minute shoot-out that eventually saw the top 7 riders covered by 0.940s.

For Sykes it was his 26^th WorldSBK Pole Position and his lap time of 1.27.071s shattered his own previous outright circuit best lap, set during Superpole in 2013.

KRT team mate and current championship leader Jonathan Rea will start from the middle of row 1, with Davide Giugliano (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) lining up alongside him to complete the top 3 riders on the grid.

Row two comprises Leon Haslam (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils), Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) and Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) while Leon Camier (MV Agusta Reparto Corse), Matteo Baiocco (Althea Racing) and Sylvain Guintoli will line up for tomorrow’s races on row 3.

David Salom, Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorrad Italia) and Michael van der Mark (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) qualified 10^th, 11^th, and 12^th respectively.

Places 13^th to 15^th will be taken by Jordi Torres (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils), Nico Terol (Althea Racing) and Leandro Mercado (Barni Racing) who will start from the fifth row of the grid courtesy of their Superpole 1 times.

In Superpole 1, reigning champion Sylvain Guintoli (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) and David Salom (Team Pedercini) progressed to the second stage of qualifying

Race 1 is scheduled to start at 1200 local time tomorrow with Race 2 getting under way at 1500.

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