Qualifying report
World Superbike Aragon
Aragon WSBK: Sykes on pole, Yamahas complete front row
Kawasaki's Tom Sykes took pole position for the upcoming World Superbike races at Aragon, while factory Yamaha riders Sylvain Guintoli and Alex Lowes made up the front row.
Valentin Khorounzhiy
Edited: Apr 2, 2016, 11:29 AM
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None of the trio were out front early on, as the first set of flying laps in Superpole 2 produced an unexpected leader in Althea BMW's Jordi Torres, who had fought his way up through Superpole 1 a few minutes earlier.
And while the Spaniard would soon be surpassed by the Ducati of Chaz Davies, Torres remained second at the halfway point, just a tenth off provisional pole.
The status quo out front remained until the final laps but, just as Honda's Michael van der Mark fell after sliding on the kerbs with two minutes remaining, the riders started to improve en masse.
With mere seconds left until the chequered flag, Sylvain Guintoli - another rider to advance from SP1 - went to the top of the timing screens, giving Yamaha faint hope of an early pole in its return campaign.
However, that hope was dashed by the Kawasaki of Tom Sykes, who went two tenths clear at the chequered, taking his second pole of the season and setting the new Aragon lap record in WSBK.
Guintoli did get to settle for second, with Lowes completing a superb qualifying effort for Yamaha in third.
Davies ended up fourth, with he and teammate Davide Giugliano split by championship leader Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki) on row two.
MV Agusta's Leon Camier was seventh ahead of Torres and Xavi Fores (Barni Ducati), with Nicky Hayden pipping his Honda teammate van der Mark to 10th at the chequered flag and Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia) making up the order in SP2.
Qualifying results
Pos. Rider Bike SP1 SP2 1 
Tom Sykes Kawasaki 1:49.374 2 
Sylvain Guintoli Yamaha 1:50.482 1:49.583 3 Alex Lowes Yamaha 1:49.708 4 Chaz Davies Ducati 1:49.909 5 Jonathan Rea Kawasaki 1:50.003 6 
Davide Giugliano Ducati 1:50.316 7 Leon Camier MV Agusta 1:50.360 8 
Jordi Torres BMW 1:50.352 1:50.390 9 Javier Fores Ducati 1:50.538 10 
Nicky Hayden Honda 1:50.551 11 
Michael van der Mark Honda 1:50.744 12 Lorenzo Savadori Aprilia 1:50.958 13 
Markus Reiterberger BMW 1:50.938 14 Roman Ramos Kawasaki 1:51.560 15 
Karel Abraham BMW 1:52.052 16 
Alex de Angelis Aprilia 1:52.173 17 Matteo Baiocco Ducati 1:52.246 18 
Joshua Brookes BMW 1:52.443 19 Sylvain Barrier Kawasaki 1:53.169 20 Mathieu Lussiana BMW 1:54.042 21 
Dominic Schmitter Kawasaki 1:54.569 22 
Saeed Al Sulaiti Kawasaki 1:54.719 23 
Peter Sebestyen Yamaha 1:55.444 24 Joshua Hook Kawasaki 1:56.023 25 Imre Toth Yamaha 1:57.217
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