World Superbike Championship leader Troy Corser will start from the front row

World Superbike Championship leader Troy Corser will start from the front row of the grid after setting third-fastest time in today's Superpole at Imola, Italy.


A small crash in the afternoon un-timed qualifying was just enough to make the Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider start his Superpole lap a bit cautiously.
He was down on time in the first split and that probably cost him the Superpole win. But he is on the front row and well-placed to contest the lead right from the start of tomorrow's pair of 21-lap races.
Chris Vermeulen (Honda) smashed the lap record to take his second Superpole win with a time of 1:48.075. Second is Regis Laconi (Ducati), with Corser third and James Toseland (Ducati) fourth.
Yukio Kagayama found the setting-sun difficult to cope with and lost his braking markers a few times on his way to the seventh fastest lap in Superpole.