Yamaha Motor Germany riders Kevin Curtain and Broc Parkes sped their YZF-R6s to the front row of tomorrow's world supersport race in Valencia. Curtain took advantage of the unexpectedly sunny conditions at the Spanish circuit to improve his time from Friday by almost one second to bag second place on the grid, behind world champion and current points leader Sebastien Charpentier (Honda).
The Yamaha Motor Germany squad worked hard overnight to change the set-up of the rapidly improving R6, giving Curtain confidence going into tomorrow's 23-lap race. The Australian has already taken second place finishes in each of the first two rounds and would dearly love to add to his three career wins in the class in tomorrow's race.
Team-mate and fellow Australian Broc Parkes will start from fourth position, even though he was unable to better his Friday time in today's 45 minute final session. Like Curtain, he worked on finding a good race set-up and is happy with the way his machine is performing. Joining Charpentier, Curtain and Parkes on the front row is Japanese rider Katsuaki Fujiwara (Honda). Two other R6 riders made it to the top 10 in qualifying. Javi Fores and Jordi Torres, two privately entered Spanish riders, ended the day in fifth and 10th places respectively.
Round: 3 - Spain WSS
Circuit: Valencia
Circuit Length: 4005
Lap Record: 1' 38.874 (Alessio Corradi, 2003) Fastest Lap Ever: 1' 37.331 (Chris Vermeulen, 2003)
Date: 22 April 2006
Temp: 21ºC
Session 1:Pos. Rider Manufacturer Nat. 1st Qualifying 2nd Qualifying
1 S. Charpentier Honda FRA 1' 36.913 1' 37.565
2 K. Curtain Yamaha AUS 1' 38.646 1' 37.698
3 K. Fujiwara Honda JPN 1' 38.141 1' 37.750
4 B. Parkes Yamaha AUS 1' 37.942 1' 38.201
5 X. Fores Yamaha ESP 1' 39.534 1' 38.385
6 R. Harms Honda DNK 1' 38.403 1' 38.672
7 B. Veneman Suzuki NED 1' 38.960 1' 38.448
8 K. Sofuoglu Honda TUR 1' 38.489 1' 39.240
9 Y. Tibero Honda FRA 1' 38.643 1' 39.122
10 J. Torres Yamaha ESP 1' 38.724 1' 38.716
11 K. Andersen Suzuki NOR 1' 39.216 1' 38.772
12 M. Roccoli Yamaha ITA 1' 39.672 1' 38.836
13 J. Stigefelt Honda SWE 1' 39.266 1' 38.971
14 C. Zaiser Ducati AUT 1' 39.003 1' 38.980
15 G. Vizziello Yamaha ITA 1' 39.137 N/A
16 W. De Angelis Honda ITA 1' 39.794 1' 39.216
18 K. Noyes Yamaha USA 1' 39.415 1' 39.412
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