the Ducati Xerox Team made a strong start to the weekend's proceedings in the first qualifying session this afternoon at Monza, with Troy Bayliss and Michel Fabrizio attaining respectively the second and seventh fastest times. Bayliss and his factory squad were able to clock up some consistently fast laps during both this morning's free practice and the afternoon's qualifying while Fabrizio spent time learning how best to approach the track on board the Ducati 1098 F08.
Troy Bayliss and Lorenzo Lanzi set the pace for the Ducati Xerox Team in today's opening qualifying session of the British Round of the World Superbike Championship at Silverstone. The double WSBK champion totally decimated the circuit's best lap by one second in tricky conditions to take provisional pole in 1m25.295s, while his Ducati Xerox team-mate Lorenzo Lanzi was six-tenths of a second adrift of Bayliss's time but right behind him in the timesheets with a time of 1m25.952s. Troy and Lorenzo were the only riders to dip under the 1m26s mark.