The Ducati Xerox Team were this afternoon celebrating with rider Michel Fabrizio as he took his first Superpole, by four hundredths of a second, in front of the countless Ducati fans at the home track of the Italian Marquee at Imola.
Team-mate Noriyuki Haga will join him on the front row of the grid tomorrow, having succeeding in securing fourth place during the afternoon‰Ûªs exciting Superpole sessions.
This morning, with only one qualifying session, the Ducati Xerox pair, Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio, knew they had to make it count, and that they did. Michel, fastest yesterday in free practice, lapped consistently fast again and by the end of the session his best time had dropped by a further eight tenths of a second with respect to yesterday, meaning he qualified for the Superpole in first position, with a time of 1m49.026s. Noriyuki made a slower start to the session but gradually found feeling on the restyled track and in the last five minutes of the session, after a change of tyre, moved up to fifth position, just three tenths of a second behind team-mate Michel. Honda‰Ûªs Johnny Rea, Yamaha‰Ûªs Ben Spies and Shane ‰ÛÏShakey‰Û
