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Curtain And Parkes On The Front Row Despite Crashes

Published by Tasha Crook
02 September 2006, 20:24

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Yamaha Motor Germany duo Kevin Curtain and Broc Parkes will start tomorrow's ninth round of the Supersport World Championship from the front row, despite suffering a crash each in this afternoon's final qualifying session. Joint championship leader Curtain crashed his YZF-R6 immediately after setting the best time of the afternoon, a 1:42.056, with around five minutes of the session remaining. The 40-year-old was set to further improve his lap when he pushed too hard and lost front end grip going into the first corner. The incident meant he was unable to wrestle the pole position from his championship rival Sebastien Charpentier (Honda), who denied Yamaha a fourth successive pole position in the class with his time from Friday.

Earlier in the session Parkes had set his best lap of 1:42.170, only to miss the final 15 minutes of the session after crashing spectacularly next time around. The Australian escaped injury in the crash although his machine was badly damaged after flying through the air spectacularly.

Yamaha Team Italia's Vizziello and Massimo Roccoli will start on the third row after ending qualifying in 10th and 11th places respectively, while Yamaha GMT94's David Checa was unable to improve on his Friday time and slipped back to 14th on the final grid.

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Qualifying 2 WSS Assen 02/09/2006:

1 Sebastien Charpentier Honda FRA 1'41.906
2 Kevin Curtain Yamaha AUS 1'42.056
3 Broc Parkes Yamaha AUS 1'42.170
4 Yoann Tibero Honda FRA 1'42.320
5 Robbin Harms Honda DNK 1'42.388
6 Kai Borre Andersen Suzuki NOR 1'42.554
7 Barry Veneman Suzuki NED 1'42.554
8 Christian Zaiser Ducati AUT 1'42.759
9 Kenan Sofuoglu Honda TUR 1'42.869
10 Gianluca Vizziello Yamaha ITA 1'42.894
11 Massimo Roccoli Yamaha ITA 1'42.933
12 Johan Stigefelt Honda SWE 1'43.002
13 Arie Vos Honda NED 1'43.057
14 David Checa Yamaha ESP 1'43.077
15 Katsuaki Fujiwara Honda JPN 1'43.087

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