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World Superbike Navarra
Navarra WSBK: Rea extends pole streak, Razgatlioglu P8
Kawasaki's Jonathan Rea extended his run of consecutive World Superbike pole positions to seven after edging out Scott Redding for the top spot in qualifying at Navarra.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Aug 21, 2021, 10:19 AM
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Friday pacesetter Rea was the man to beat after the opening runs at the Spanish track, another new-for-2021 venue, on a 1m36.794s, comfortably the fastest lap of the weekend so far.
The six-time world champion was only ousted with two minutes left of the 15-minute session, as Chaz Davies, Andrea Locatelli and Tom Sykes all enjoyed brief spells at the head of the times.
With 30 seconds on the clock, Ducati rider Redding posted a 1m36.215s to go three tenths clear of Sykes, but Rea responded by posting a 1m36.122s at the chequered flag to beat Redding by 0.093s.
Sykes ended up with the final spot on the front row aboard his BMW, followed by top Yamaha rider Locatelli, who topped Saturday morning practice, and the Go Eleven Ducati of Chaz Davies.
Lucas Mahias was a strong sixth on the Puccetti Kawasaki on his return from injury ahead of the second works machine of Alex Lowes.
The disappointment of the session however was Toprak Razgatlioglu, who arrived at Navarra just three points shy of Rea in the riders' standings but could only manage a time 0.630s off the pace in eighth place.
Completing the top 10 were the GRT Yamaha of Garrett Gerloff and Michael van der Mark on the second BMW.
Alvaro Bautista was the best of the Honda riders in 12th, while Leon Haslam was 17th-fastest - one place behind the satellite MIE Racing bike of the returning Leandro Mercado.
Suzuki wildcard Naomichi Uramoto was 20th fastest and almost three seconds off the pace, but nonetheless outqualified the two Pedercini Kawasakis of Jayson Uribe and Loris Cresson.
Qualifying results:
Cla # Rider Bike Time Gap 1 1 Jonathan Rea
Kawasaki 1'36.122 2 45 Scott Redding
Ducati 1'36.215 0.093 3 66 Tom Sykes
BMW 1'36.546 0.424 4 55 Andrea Locatelli
Yamaha 1'36.580 0.458 5 7 Chaz Davies
Ducati 1'36.693 0.571 6 44 Lucas Mahias
Kawasaki 1'36.729 0.607 7 22 Alex Lowes
Kawasaki 1'36.744 0.622 8 54 Toprak Razgatlioglu
Yamaha 1'36.752 0.630 9 31 Garrett Gerloff
Yamaha 1'36.858 0.736 10 60 Michael van der Mark
BMW 1'36.895 0.773 11 47 Axel Bassani
Ducati 1'37.240 1.118 12 19 Alvaro Bautista
Honda 1'37.412 1.290 13 21 Michael Ruben Rinaldi
Ducati 1'37.468 1.346 14 94 Jonas Folger
BMW 1'37.661 1.539 15 3 Kohta Nozane
Yamaha 1'37.664 1.542 16 36 Leandro Mercado
Honda 1'37.794 1.672 17 91 Leon Haslam
Honda 1'38.012 1.890 18 53 Tito Rabat
Ducati 1'38.446 2.324 19 23 Christophe Ponsson
Yamaha 1'38.948 2.826 20 6 Naomichi Uramoto
Suzuki 1'38.973 2.851 21 14 Jayson Uribe
Kawasaki 1'40.094 3.972 22 84 Loris Cresson
Kawasaki 1'40.255 4.133 View full results
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