SHANE AND LEON START ON SECOND ROW AT SILVERSTONE
Tomorrow GSE Racing will be looking to achieve their 4th British Superbike title. Airwaves Ducati riders Shane Byrne and Leon Camier will start round 11 from the second row of the grid. Championship leader Shane qualified 6th and Leon 7th with only 0.039 seconds separating the pair.
Knowing he needs just a top 10 finish tomorrow to secure the 2008 title, Shane commented,
“I went as fast as I felt necessary today. Towards the end of qualifying I decided to push a little harder but made a couple of mistakes. Fortunately they weren’t big mistakes but big enough for me to think about the championship being at stake. After that I rode at 99% but still managed to achieve a1:26.136 lap and bring the Airwaves Ducati home! Although I’m a little disappointed not to be on the front row I am pleased with my times today. Both Leon and I have a really good race pace which is what the Airwaves Ducati team has been working towards all weekend and I think we should be in great shape for tomorrow’s races.”
Leon worked hard to improve his lap times over qualifying with his fastest time of 1:26.175 coming on lap 4 of 7 in the final session.
“We made a big change to the Airwaves Ducati this morning ahead of practice and I’m really confident we’ve made a step forward with our race pace. Although the settings aren’t ideal for one quick qualifying lap, we’ve focused on getting ourselves the best possible set up for the races”.
The schedule for Round 11 of the British Superbike Championship is as follows:
Race One – 1315
Race Two – 1625
Qualifying Results:
1. Cal Crutchlow – HM Plant Honda 1:25.489
2. Leon Haslam – HM Plant Honda 1:25.790
3. Michael Rutter – North West 200 Ducati 1:25.952
4. Karl Harris – Team Yamaha 1:25.976
5. Tom Sykes – Rizla Suzuki 1:26.012
6. Shane Byrne – Airwaves Ducati 1:26.136
7. Leon Camier – Airwaves Ducati 1:26.175