WSBK Phillip Island Yamaha On Pole Dominique Aegerter On Row One

(Motorsport-Total com) - Yamaha works rider Toprak Razgatlioglu secured pole position at the Superbike World Championship on Phillip Island (Australia) ( to the result ).

The ex-champion prevailed in the first Superpole of the 2023 WSBK season against defending champion Alvaro Bautista (Ducati), who ran into other riders in the decisive attempt © Yamaha Dominique Aegerter put in a strong showing in Superpole Zoom However, the big surprise was rookie Dominique Aegerter (GRT-Yamaha).

The Swiss pushed his way into the first starting row And Philipp Öttl (GoEleven-Ducati) also showed a very strong performance.

Compared to Friday it was significantly cooler The sky had clouded over.

This made faster lap times possible than the day before In the FT3 on Saturday morning, Honda works driver Iker Lecuona led the classification ( on the FT3 result ).

The Spaniard lapped the course in 1:29 764 minutes - the fastest time of the weekend up to that point.

In the first exchange of blows in Superpole, Jonathan Rea took the lead with a 1:29 715 lap.

In the cooler conditions, the Kawasaki ZX-10RR performed significantly better than on Friday In addition to Rea, the two factory Ducatis of Michael Rinaldi and Alvaro Bautista were also on course for the front row.

© Kawasaki Jonathan Rea was on pole course after the first attempt Zoom Philipp Öttl (GoEleven-Ducati) set the seventh fastest time on the first attempt, 0 600s back.

Dominique Aegerter (GRT-Yamaha) was right behind in eighth, 0 724 back.

© Ducati Alvaro Bautista had heavy traffic in the decisive attempt Zoom With six minutes remaining, the leading riders took to the track again and started their second attempt Alvaro Bautista positioned himself badly and ran into a large group of riders.

Philipp Öttl was luckier and was able to drive a free lap The German was on course for the front row of the grid.

Dominique Aegerter was even quicker, taking provisional pole on his second attempt with a lap of 1:29 635.

© Team Go Eleven Stark: Philipp Öttl finished the Superpole in fifth position Zoom Yamaha brand colleague Toprak Razgatlioglu moved to provisional pole a little later and pushed Dominique Aegerter from first position And Alvaro Bautista was able to improve again and passed Aegerter.

Jonathan Rea, on the other hand, did not manage to increase further The record champion slipped out of the top 3.

The clock was running out Razgatlioglu was no longer ousted at the top.

With his 1:29,400 lap, the 2021 World Champion took the first pole of the 2023 WSBK season After a disappointing Friday, Razgatlioglu made an impressive comeback.

© Yamaha Toprak Razgatlioglu took the first pole of the WSBK 2023 Zoom But the big surprise was Dominique Aegerter, who will start the first race and the sprint race from the front row in his WSBK debut Between the two Yamahas is defending champion Alvaro Bautista, who didn't experience a perfect Superpole, However, with second place, he has created very good conditions for the races.

Jonathan Rea, who led the scoring after the first exchange, slipped out of the top three after failing to catch up on the second try Philipp Öttl starts from fifth position.

The second row is completed by Michael Rinaldi (Ducati) © Yamaha Successful Superpole: Rookie Remy Gardner is seventh on the grid Zoom Local hero Remy Gardner (GRT-Yamaha) leads the third row of the grid.

Alex Lowes (Kawasaki) and Andrea Locatelli (Yamaha) join Gardner to complete the third row of the grid MotoGP race winner Danilo Petrucci finished his first WSBK Superpole in tenth position.

Honda works driver Iker Lecuona followed in eleventh place, clearly missing his FT3 time Michael van der Mark was the best BMW driver in twelfth place.

© Gold and Goose Michael van der Mark was the best BMW driver in twelfth Zoom Former runner-up Scott Redding (BMW) did not get past 13th position The Brit was a second behind.

Superpole was also disappointing for Axel Bassani (Motocorsa-Ducati), who finished 14th Rookie Lorenzo Baldassarri completed the fifth row of the grid in 15th place.

Garrett Gerloff (Bonovo-BMW) is 16th and leads the sixth row of the grid The American couldn't repeat the good result from FT2, but he was faster than Bonovo teammate Loris Baz, who was only 18th.

Between the two BMWs was Honda works driver Xavi Vierge Tom Sykes, Mister Superpole, couldn't get past P19 on the WSBK comeback.

The Puccetti Kawasaki driver lost 1 5 seconds and was only ahead of the two MIE Hondas driven by Eric Granado and Hafizh Syahrin as well as Orelac Kawasaki driver Oliver König.

The first race of the 2023 Superbike World Championship season will start at 6:00 a m.

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