In the final practice day the 675 Triumph-SC has been in difficult on the very fast Monza track, as well at the end of the qualifying session Garry McCoy was not particularly disappointed.
Garry McCoy did comment at the end of practices: “The bike runs well, but we miss power and on this track that is a drama. I’m quite satisfied for the setting of the bike and I’m sure that I could record a rather better time with the soft tyres, but the traffic on the track during the last minutes was terrible, with everybody moving from one side to the other looking for a good slipstream. During my fastest lap I found on my trajectory a Kawasaki, I believe Walker, that slowed me a lot. Tomorrow it will be a difficult race because we need more power, however I’ll start hopefully in a good race.”
Ruggero Scambia went on to improve his bike’s confidence: “I’ve done a little bit better and I’m going to know better the bike too. My ideal time is almost a second better as my fastest lap, that means that I make a lot of riding mistakes, at the first chicane I miss it four times. But I confirm to be satisfied because in my first approach I’ve not done big mistakes and I followed with my politic of small steps. Nobody put me under pression, I do it by myself because it would be great to get early some good result, but I don’t want to lose this opportunity for some stupid mistake. Tomorrow for the race I’ll try for something better and finish the race, accumulating more precious experience.”
Supersport – Final Qualifying
Pl. - Rider - Nat. - Bike - Time 1 - PARKES - Broc - AUS - Yamaha YZF R6 - 1’49.868
2 - BROOKES Joshua - AUS - Honda CBR 600RR - 1’50.334
3 - FORET Fabien - FRA - Yamaha - YZF R6 - 1’50.420
4 - ROCCOLI Massimo - ITA - Yamaha YZF R6 - 1’50.533
5 - REA Jonathan - GBR - Honda CBR 600RR - 1’50.747
6 - VIZZIELLO Gianluca - ITA - Honda CBR 600RR - 1’50.800
7 - PITT Andrews - AUS - Honda CBR 600RR - 1’50.823
8 - HARMS - Robbin - DEN - Honda CBR 600RR - 1’50.969
9 - LAGRIVE Matthieu - FRA - Honda CBR 600RR - 1’50.985
10 - AITCHINSON Mark - AUS - Triumph - 675 1’51.004
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23 - McCOY Garry - AUS - Triumph - – SC 675 1’52.657
35 - SCAMBIA Ruggero - ITA - Triumph - – SC 675 1’54.904 Robbie Stewart in Superstock 600 increased clearly his performance, as well his starting position is always in the middle of grid, also because a crash in the final minutes stopped early his final qualifying. For the race Robbie made a good start, but he remained unluckily involved in a terrible general accident that caused the red flag stop of the race at the end of the third lap. Robbie was not able to get the new start following FIM rules about restart.
Robbie Stewart said: “In the final qualifying I was running quite well and my lap time was going better; unfortunately a crash did not allow me to get a better starting grid position. For the race I got a bad start, but during the first lap I earned several positions. But at the end of the third lap Lonbois crashed priming a gigantic accident with 14 riders involved, with me too. The race has been stopped with red flag, but I couldn’t restart because I’ve been not able to join the pit with the bike in the time established by FIM Sporting Rules.”
Superstock 600 – Final Qualifying
Pl. - Rider - Nat. - Bike - Time 1 - BAZ - Loris - FRA - Yamaha YZF R6 - 1’53.484
2 - PETRUCCI - Danilo - ITA - Yamaha YZF R6 - 1’54.121
3 - BLACK Gregory - GBR - Honda CBR 600RR - 1’54.392
4 - BUSSOLOTTI Marco - ITA - Yamaha YZF R6 - 1’54.466
5 - BILIOTTI - Leonardo - ITA - Honda - CBR 600RR - - 1’54.626
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23 STEWART Robbie - GBR - Triumph-SC - 675 - 1’56.484Superstock 600 – Race ( 8 laps – 46,344 kms)
Pl. - Rider - Nat. - Bike - Time/Gap – - Average
1 - BAZ Loris - FRA - Yamaha YZF R6 - 15’28.647 - at 179,658 kph
2 - BUSSOLOTTI - Marco - FRA - Yamaha YZF R6 - at - 1.159
3 - BERETTA - Daniele - ITA - Suzuki - GSX-R600 - - at - 1.364
4 - PETRUCCI Danilo - ITA - Yamaha YZF R6 - at - 1.435
5 - BILIOTTI - Leonardo - ITA - Honda CBR600RR - at - 2.008
Championship Standing:
1st Baz (Yamaha) 61 points
2nd Beretta (Suzuki) 42
3rd Linfoot (Yamaha) 41
4th Vostarek (Honda) 35
5th Petrucci (Yamaha) 33
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27th Grant Tom (Triumph-SC) 1 point
