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SBK Monza, Troy Corser so close to "secondo" row!

In SBK

10 maggio 2009

In Superpole qualifying at Monza today, Troy posted his best result of the season and will start tomorrow’s pair of 18-lap races from the third row of the grid.

But it could have been even better. The second row of the grid was beckoning on Troy’s hot lap at the end of the session but then yellow flags came out. An earlier crash caused the flags to come out and Troy had no option but to roll off the gas a bit and that was enough to lose a fraction of a second when it mattered. Had it not been for the flags, Troy may well have qualified for Superpole 3 and a start from the second row at the very least.

American Ben Spies (Yamaha) made it five out five Superpole wins this season, with Michel Fabrizio (Ducati) second, Ryuichi Kiyonari (Honda) third and Max Neukirchner (Suzuki) fourth.

Troy Corser: "I’m happy because it is our best result so far this year, but I’m not happy because of what happened at the end of Superpole Q2. I feel sure I was on course for qualifying for Q1 and was up on my lap time when I saw yellow flags and oil flags being waved up at the Parabolica. So, I had to ease off the gas a bit and was a bit surprised, to say the least, when I saw some marshals on the kerb stones. Obviously I wasn’t able to go as fast as I wanted and the time I lost meant that I didn’t get into Q1. That was a shame, but we’re all a bit happy because the third row is our best performance in Superpole this year so far and that shows that we are improving. We are still working on quite a few things at the moment and one of them is to improve the consistency of the Braking feel. Also this track is a bit bumpy in places and our bike is skipping about a bit, so we’ll make a few adjustments in the warm-up tomorrow and see if can make the bike a bit better. Third row is our best so far and I’ve already showed what I can do from even further back, so I am hoping to get two good starts and fight with the front group".