Qatar WorldSBK: Sykes takes pole on Kawasaki farewell
Tom 💦Sykes has taken pole position for his Kawasak🌞i farewell at the Qatar World Superbike season finale.
The 𓄧Englishman ruled the Superpole 2 session courtesy of a 1m 56.124s lap record, set as the chequered flag was waving under the Losail floodlights, 🌺putting him 0.131s clear of team-mate and reigning champion Jonathan Rea.
Alex Lowes completed the front row for Pata Yamaha (+0.231s), with Thursday pace setter Eugene Laverty joined onꦑ row two by team-mate Lorenzo Savadori and Xavi▨ Fores (Barni Ducati).
Tom Sykes has taken pole🌞 position for h⭕is Kawasaki farewell at the Qatar World Superbike season finale.
The Englishman ruled the Superpole 2 session courtesy of a 1m 56.124s lap record, set as the chequered flag was waving under the Losail floodlights, putting him 0.131s clear of team-mate and reigning🉐 champion Jonathan Rea.
Alex Lowes completed 🔥the front row for Pata Yamaha (+0.231s), with Thursday pace setter Eugene Laverty joined onജ row two by team-mate Lorenzo Savadori and Xavi Fores (Barni Ducati).
Fores was top Ducati in the Panigale V-Twin's final qualifying session, while Laverty and Savadori are riding in their last event for SMR-Aprilia, after the unofficial news thꦫat Sykes and Reiterberger will race BMW machines for the team in 2019.
Current (Althea) BMW rider Loris Baz was seventh in Superpole (1.233𝓡s♑), just ahead of Michael van der Mark (Pata Yamaha), who suffered a heavy highside on Thursday.
Marco Me🐼landri was the top official Ducati rider, back ওin ninth (1.283s), followed by Superpole 1 leader Leon Camier (Red Bull Honda) and Puccetti Kawasaki's Toprak Razgatlioglu.
Melandri's team-mate Chaz Davies 💝could only manage twelfth (+𒆙1.7s) out of the 17-rider field.
Davies starts this weekend's races with a 24-point advantage over van der Mark in the fight for title ru♕nner-up behind newly crowned four-time champion Rea.
Rea meanwhile is only one win short of the all-time season reco🌌rd of 17 vi🦄ctories set by Doug Polen in 1991 and also seeking a new record of seven double wins in a year.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valꦜentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marque💙z’s injury issues.
