World Supersport

Broc Parkes (Yamaha World Supersport) will start tomorrow's fifth round of the FIM Supersport World Championship from pole position after setting an incredible time of 1 minute 49.868 seconds, the only rider to dip below the 1 minute 50 second mark. His last-minute lap time allowed him to grab the pole for the second time this year. Joshua Brookes (Hannspree Stiggy Motors Honda), who had held the overnight pole, maintained his front-row grid position despite not improving his time. The two Australians will be flanked by two Yamahas, the World Supersport team version of Frenchman Fabien Foret and the Lorenzini by Leoni R6 of Italy's Massimo Roccoli. This was Roccoli's best yet 2008 qualifying performance, making him also one of the candidates for the win. Four Honda CBR600RR riders make up the second row of the grid: young British talent Jonathan Rea (Hannspree Ten Kate), Gianluca Vizziello (Berry Racing), Andrew Pitt (Hannspree Ten Kate) and Robbin Harms (Hannspree Stiggy Motors). Gianluca Nannelli (Honda) could only make row 3 behind Australian Mark Aitchison (Triumph Italia), while points leader Joan Lascorz (Glaner Motocard.com Honda) was in difficulty, the Spaniard crashing again today and only qualifying sixteenth place.

Superstock 1000

Second pole position in three races for Italian youngster Claudio Corti. The Yamaha Motor Italia Junior Team rider set a new circuit best lap in 1 minutes 48.545 seconds, knocking almost one second off his Friday time. Two other Yamaha R1 machines qualified on the front row with the Lorenzini by Leoni pairing of Michele Pirro and Michele Magnoni in second and fourth. They sandwiched Davide Giugliano (Cruciani Suzuki) to make up an all-Italian front row. Two more of the championship frontrunners lined up behind, Australian Brendan Roberts (Ducati Xerox Junior Team) in eighth and Belgium's Xavier Simeon (Suzuki Alstare) in tenth, while championship leader Maxime Berger (Hannspree IDS Ten Kate Honda) could only qualify sixteenth after crashing in the final stages of the session while on his quick lap.