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Tom Sykes's positive run for the Kawasaki Racing Team continued this morning at Imola when the Nurburgring winner took the top slot in the second qualifying session, with Superpole still to come. The Kawasaki man, who was also on pole for the race here last year, set a quickest time of 1 minute 47.799 seconds, almost four-tenths of a second under the record set last year by Carlos Checa.
Behind Sykes can be found his fellow Brit, Jonathan Rea (Castrol Honda), who was fastest yesterday, and Michel Fabrizio (Suzuki Alstare), who won here in 2009.
Championship leader Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) was fourth, followed by Noriyuki Haga (Pata Racing Team Aprilia) and Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport), while Marco Melandri (Yamaha World Superbike team) could only manage seventh place.



Source: World Superbike

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