Oulton Park: Byrne sets fastest ever lap at Oulton Park for pole

Shane Byrne has set the quickest ever Superbike lap around Oulton Park to storm to pole position ahead of Tommy Bridewell and Leon Haslam.

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Shane Byrne has set the quickest e⛎ver Superbike lap around Oulton Park to storm to pole position𓃲 ahead of Tommy Bridewell with Leon Haslam completing the front row.

After the Superpole format ha🐽d to be ditched with the increasing threat of rain, the familiar Q3 session took place with the top nine riders blasting out early to avoid any wet wea🌞ther.

In sunny conditions, somewhat ironically, Byrne on the Be Wiser Ducati was the last to se🐷t a timed lap but produced a blistering time of 1m 33.933s ﷺto jump ahead of the chasing pack.

Bridewell on the ꦚBennetts Suzuki grabbed second on the grid, 0.137s off of Byrne, a🐼s Haslam needed his second flying lap to move up to third ahead of Honda's Jason O'Halloran.

Joint-closest Showdown contender outside the top six Luke Mossey will start from the middle of the se𓂃cond row just ahead of James Ellison on the second JG Speedfit Kawasaki.

Peter Hickman was shuffled down to seventh, despite also going under the officia꧂l lap record, ahead of Buildbase BMW's Richard Cooper and e🐭PayMe Yamaha's John Hopkins.

With the increased threat of rain building during qualifying Superpole was reverted to ๊the ⛦Q3 format as per the regulations, meaning the top nine riders could head out on track together to battle for pole position.

Showdown contender Dan Linfoot narrowly missed out on the reverted Q3 session after being bumped✤ dow✱n the order by Hopkins and Hickman late in the intermediate session.

Fellow top six sitter🍒 Michae🍌l Laverty also missed out and will start 11th with Glenn Irwin splitting the Tyco BMWs in 12th and Christian Iddon in 13th.

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