2012 Brno WSBK Superpole Result

Final Superpole Results:

Marco Melandri led Superpole 1 by setting the fastest lap of the weekend on his first flying lap. Eugene Laverty demonstrated how his new electronics were indeed working by going second fastest. The shock of the first session was that Max Biaggi, a man who has won eleven races here in pretty much every class, could not qualify for the second session.

After Davide Giugliano's radiator was punctured in Superpole 2, the session was red flagged as four riders crashed out on the resulting water. The single bike rule meant that the restart had to be delayed long enough for teams to rebuild their bikes if riders wanted to make the restart, but David Salom and Ayrton Badovini's bikes were both irreparable in the time it took to clean the track. Unfortunately, the delay also gave the weather time to make its presence felt as drops of rain started landing in sector one as riders finished an allocated five minute warm-up session.

This further delayed the restart as the procedure was changed to wet rules: the remaining ten riders were sent out out for a single 20 minute session. Giugliano and Jakub Smrz were both able to get their crashed Ducatis fixed in time. Tom Sykes and Eugene Laverty very quickly put in fast laps, followed by Carlos Checa and Marco Melandri, but with five minutes remaining, Tom Sykes beat Cal Crutchlow's outright lap record and took his seventh pole position of the year.