Biaggi, Lowes and Savadori take the warm-up at Motorland

Today the warm-up sessions for the World Superbike, Supersport and Superstock 1000 Championships were held, and now the races at Motorland are about to begin.

By David Gómez1 July 2012 · 2 min read

With a brutal temperature difference compared to yesterday at the Motorland Aragón circuit, which we left yesterday after enduring temperatures between 35º and 40º all day, today we arrived with more than 15º less, which will undoubtedly have a big impact on how the races unfold, since many tyre problems were expected due to the excessive heat.

In this way, the warm-up session has also allowed the riders to face this new track condition , much colder than throughout the whole weekend, and to prepare a new race strategy, since temperatures are not expected to exceed 25º at race time.

The first category to take to the track was Superstock 1000, where we have as a wild-card our CEV Buckler rider Quique Ferrer on the Ducati Panigale. The Spaniard will start from 12th+1 on the grid. The best time this morning went to Lorenzo Salvadori, on the Panigale of Barni Racing Team Italia, followed by the Frenchmen Barrier and Guarnoni. Quique finished 10th.

The next to take to the track were the Superbike riders, where Max Biaggi pushed his Aprilia RSV4 Factory to the limit to set the fastest time, 1:58.174, ahead of Marco Melandri and Tom Sykes. Carlos Checa was 7th and David Salom 12th. Both are very excited about this race and hope to put in two good heats in front of the public, which is slowly starting to arrive at the circuit. Rea’s time surprised everyone: more than two seconds behind Biaggi, in 18th position.

Finally, the Supersport warm-up left us with Britain’s Sam Lowes on the Honda CBR 600RR of Bogdanka PTR Honda as the fastest with a time of 2:02.409, ahead of Australia’s Broc Parkes and the man who will start from pole, Frenchman Jules Cluzel, all of them on Honda, by the way.

At 12 noon the first Superbike race will take place, at 13:30 the Supersport race, and at 15:30 the second Superbike race. If you don’t have Eurosport, which is where the races of this very interesting championship are broadcast, don’t worry, since we will post links on our Twitter profile so you can enjoy the races.

Photos | David Gómez (Plusmoto)