Qatar WSBK: Rea denies Hayden pole

Title favourite Jonathan Rea topped the final Superpole session of the World Superbike season in Qatar, beating Nicky Hayden at the very end of the session.

Rea led the first half of the session but he was quickly demoted by Jordi Torres during the final flyers.

Honda duo Michael van der Mark and Hayden both lowered the benchmark, the latter staying ahead until Rea set his best time of 1m56.356s.

Hayden and Chaz Davies will start from the front row, the duo separated by four hundredths.

Sylvain Guintoli took fourth as Tom Sykes, Rea's only remaining title rival, was fifth.

Guintoli's Yamaha teammate Alex Lowes was more than half a second adrift in sixth, followed by Xavi Fores and Lorenzo Savadori.

Van der Mark, who had dominated Superpole 1, ended up ninth, with Torres eventually settling for 10th.

Cla	Driver	Bike	Time	Gap
1	Jonathan Rea	Kawasaki	1'56.356
2	Nicky Hayden	Honda	1'56.561	0.205
3	Chaz Davies	Ducati	1'56.602	0.246
4	Sylvain Guintoli	Yamaha	1'56.866	0.510
5	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki	1'56.935	0.579
6	Alex Lowes	Yamaha	1'57.014	0.658
7	Xavi Forés	Ducati	1'57.018	0.662
8	Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	1'57.094	0.738
9	Michael van der Mark	Honda	1'57.126	0.770
10	Jordi Torres	BMW	1'57.485	1.129
11	Davide Giugliano	Ducati	1'57.956	1.600
12	Leon Camier	MV Agusta	1'58.480	2.124

Cla	Driver	Bike	Time	Gap
1	Michael van der Mark	Honda	1'57.550
2	Davide Giugliano	Ducati	1'58.231	0.681
3	Raffaele De Rosa	BMW	1'58.289	0.739
4	Josh Brookes	BMW	1'58.437	0.887
5	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	1'58.518	0.968
6	Leon Haslam	Kawasaki	1'58.622	1.072
7	Markus Reiterberger	BMW	1'58.633	1.083
8	Karel Abraham	BMW	1'58.934	1.384
9	Roman Ramos	Kawasaki	1'58.958	1.408
10	Saeed Al Sulaiti	Kawasaki	1'59.734	2.184
11	Luca Scassa	Ducati	1'59.792	2.242
12	Gianluca Vizziello	Kawasaki	1'59.968	2.418
13	Pawel Szkopek	Yamaha	2'00.876	3.326
14	Dominic Schmitter	Kawasaki	2'01.624	4.074
15	Peter Sebestyen	Yamaha	2'01.667	4.117