2019 British Superbikes

Round 11 Donington Park Qualifying

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Scott Redding will start from pole position for tomorrow’s opening Bennetts British Superbike Championship race at Donington Park after edging out his Be Wiser Ducati teammate Josh Brookes in Datatag Qualifying as the pair fight for the advantage in the Showdown.

Scott Redding – P1

“It’s always good to be on pole position. Q3 was quite good; I had to really push quite hard because Q1 and 2 I didn’t feel that great with the bike and the grip. I didn’t want to change too much because I know the base is not bad. Josh was stepping up the pace so I thought inside of me I have got more, so in the Q3 we just made a small little change and I kept working away at the lap time. I thought now I’ve just got to do what I really can do and put it on the line, and to get the pole position lap is obviously really good and sets us up for the races tomorrow.”

Josh Brookes – P2

“We’ve done a good job today to take second, but the first two sectors are letting me down a bit Josh Brookesand haven’t had the speed to go with Scott. On the edge of the tyre through the high-speed stuff of Craner Curves, I’m losing a bit of time and not able to attack but through the twisty stuff at the end of the lap, the bike feels mint. We’ve a bit of work still to do with the settings but I think our race pace is good enough to make it two competitive races.”

The final stage of Datatag Qualifying began with Luke Mossey at the top, but it wasn’t long before Be Wiser Ducati’s Brookes had fired himself to the top of the times as the eight-minute session counted down rapidly.

Buildbase Suzuki’s Bradley Ray was then on a string of fast laps that saw him climb the order and grab the lead position, but just a moment later Redding had delivered the fastest lap of the weekend so far to claim his fifth qualifying pole position of the season as Brookes surged into second.

Ray completed the front row for tomorrow’s opening race, just ahead of Mossey who had his best qualifying performance of the season for OMG Racing Suzuki in fourth place to head the second row.

Christian Iddon led the Tyco BMW charge to start from the second row in fifth place with Luke Stapleford completing the top six on the second of the Buildbase Suzukis.

Showdown contender Tommy Bridewell was seventh fastest with the Oxford Racing Ducati team, holding off his Title Fighter rival Peter Hickman on the Smiths Racing BMW.

Taylor Mackenzie impressed by claiming a place in Q3 on his debut for Tyco BMW, pushing his Showdown contending brother Tarran Mackenzie into tenth at the end of Q2. It was a tough session for the FS-3 Racing Kawasaki’s Danny Buchan, who was the sixth fastest of the Showdown six and will start 13th on the grid for tomorrow’s first race.

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Bennetts British Superbikes Combined Qualification

Pos	Rider	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Scott REDDING	1m29.448	1m28.847	1m28.403
2	Josh BROOKES	1m29.395	1m29.080	1m28.832
3	Bradley RAY	1m29.852	1m29.274	1m28.945
4	Luke MOSSEY	1m29.962	1m29.348	1m29.068
5	Christian IDDON	1m29.823	1m29.260	1m29.132
6	Luke STAPLEFORD	1m30.134	1m29.343	1m29.259
7	Tommy BRIDEWELL	1m29.767	1m29.178	1m29.299
8	Peter HICKMAN	1m29.627	1m29.349	1m29.329
9	Taylor MACKENZIE	1m30.130	1m29.453	1m29.922
10	Tarran MACKENZIE	1m30.197	1m29.595	/
11	Jason O’HALLORAN	1m30.189	1m29.614	/
12	Dan LINFOOT	1m30.233	1m29.712	/
13	Danny BUCHAN	1m29.846	1m29.733	/
14	Andrew IRWIN	1m30.105	1m29.757	/
15	Xavi FORÉS	1m30.254	1m29.767	/
16	Claudio CORTI	1m30.297	1m29.847	/
17	Alex OLSEN	1m30.269	1m29.851	/
18	Ryan VICKERS	1m30.300	1m29.877	/
19	Joe FRANCIS	1m30.522	/	/
20	Dean HARRISON	1m30.800	/	/
21	Ben CURRIE	1m30.809	/	/
22	Billy McCONNELL	1m30.983	/	/
23	Héctor BARBERÁ	1m31.026	/	/
24	David ALLINGHAM	1m31.120	/	/
25	Shaun WINFIELD	1m31.325	/	/
26	James ELLISON	1m31.341	/	/
27	Josh OWENS	1m31.547	/	/
28	Gino REA	1m31.598	/	/
29	Matt TRUELOVE	1m31.629	/	/
30	Sam COVENTRY	1m32.707	/	/
31	Ashley BEECH	1m34.037	/	/

Source: MCNews.com.au