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Hot work in Misano sun for Pata Honda - Malcolm - 21-06-2014 Pata Honda rider Jonathan Rea will start tomorrow’s two 21-lap seventh-round World Superbike championship races from the third row of the grid after setting the eighth-fastest time in this afternoon’s Superpole session at the Misano World Circuit ‘Marco Simoncelli’ in Italy. With air temperatures in the low thirties and the track approaching 50˚C, the 27-year-old British rider fired his Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade SP around the 4.226km Misano circuit in a time of 1m35.675s, 0.8s behind the pole position time of Tom Sykes. Rea and his Pata Honda team-mate Leon Haslam have been working with their crews to optimise the effect of their CBRs’ engine-braking around Misano’s 16 turns but both riders believe that, while good progress has been made, further efforts are required before tomorrow’s races. Haslam had two slow crashes in the 15-minute Superpole 2 session today and, although the 31-year-old was uninjured, he will start from 12th position on the grid tomorrow. Jonathan Rea - P8 I’m quite frustrated with this weekend because we thought Misano would be good for us. But when grip levels drop we really seem to struggle with engine brake issues. We’re having to tune the system for each circuit at the moment and don’t really have a good base setting. We haven’t been able to put our finger on the problem because we we’re OK with fresh tyres in the bike. I feel a bit better for the races tomorrow but eighth seems to be where I’ve been all weekend and I don’t want to be riding around for that again tomorrow. We need to engineer ourselves out of this position and try to find balance to get a smoother sensation from closing throttle to the corner apex and to keep the wheels in line. The crash that I had at the end of practice this morning showed the problem clearl y on the data so we know where to concentrate our efforts. We’ve not been getting the best out of the bike this weekend but we’ll go out tomorrow and give it everything. Leon Haslam - P12 We’ve made some good steps this weekend and there have been some positives. I was only 0.5s off in Free Practice 3 and ended up seventh, but we had a familiar problem with the qualifying tyre, which usually puts a spanner in the works for us. Two crashes during Superpole were certainly not ideal either, especially as I was on target for a 1m35s and probably something around P7. But we’ve had the same problems as Jonathan really, and we’ve been looking for more stability from the bike. We’ve got some work to do this evening for sure, and we’ll try hard for two good results tomorrow. Pieter Breddels - technical co-ordinator Until the time we had to make grid positions in Superpole, Leon had been making quite good progress this weekend. Unfortunately, his setting didn’t really match the grip of his qualifying tyre and he had a couple of small crashes this afternoon, which is disappointing for him. We’ll try to find out more detail on the problem and improve things for tomorrow. For Jonathan, it’s been a little bit like the last couple of races and we’ve been one step behind on the settings. He’s quite close to the front and had to make some progress after FP2 yesterday, so he’s doing a good job. Hopefully, we can get the last couple of problems sorted for warm-up tomorrow and have two good races. Qualifying position 1 Tom Sykes 1'34.883 GBR KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 2 Davide Giugliano 1'35.079 ITA DUCATI Ducati Superbike Team 3 Sylvain Guintoli 1'35.106 FRA APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team 4 Loris Baz 1'35.254 FRA KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 5 Marco Melandri 1'35.316 ITA APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team 6 Toni Elias 1'35.404 SPA APRILIA Red Devils Roma 7 Chaz Davies 1'35.602 GBR DUCATI Ducati Superbike Team 8 Jonathan Rea 1'35.675 GBR HONDA Pata Honda 9 Eugene Laverty 1'36.043 IRL SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki 10 Niccolo Canepa 1'36.404 ITA DUCATI Althea Racing 11 Alex Lowes 1'36.489 GBR SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki 12 Leon Haslam 1'36.515 GBR HONDA Pata Honda 13 David Salom 1'36.843 ESP KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 14 Matteo Baiocco 1'36.931 ITA DUCATI Grandi Corse by A.P. Racing 15 Ayrton Badovini 1'37.038 ITA BIMOTA Team Alstare 16 Claudio Corti 1'37.351 ITA MV AGUSTA MV Agusta RC-Yakhnich Motorsport 17 Sylvain Barrier 1'37.499 FRA BMW BMW Motorrad Italia SBK 18 Ivan Goi 1'37.540 ITA DUCATI BARNI Racing Team 19 Sheridan Morais 1'37.807 RSA KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team 20 Fabien Foret 1'38.008 FRA KAWASAKI MAHI Racing Team India 21 Christian Iddon 1'38.170 GBR BIMOTA Team Alstare 22 Jeremy Guarnoni 1'38.308 FRA KAWASAKI MRS Kawasaki 23 Riccardo Russo 1'38.402 ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini 24 Alessandro Andreozzi 1'38.850 ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini 25 Bryan Staring 1'39.412 AUS KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team 26 Imre Toth 1'40.270 HUN BMW BMW Team Toth 27 Aaron Yates 1'40.424 USA BIMOTA Team Hero EBR 28 Peter Sebestyen 1'40.994 HUN BMW BMW Team Toth 29 Geoff May 1'41.176 USA BIMOTA Team Hero EBR Championship standings 1 Tom Sykes 201 pts GBR KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 2 Sylvain Guintoli 188 pts FRA APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team 3 Jonathan Rea 179 pts GBR HONDA Pata Honda 4 Loris Baz 170 pts FRA KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 5 Marco Melandri 147 pts ITA APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team 6 Chaz Davies 130 pts GBR DUCATI Ducati Superbike Team 7 Davide Giugliano 96 pts ITA DUCATI Ducati Superbike Team 8 Eugene Laverty 90 pts IRL SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki 9 Toni Elias 89 pts SPA APRILIA Red Devils Roma 10 Leon Haslam 89 pts GBR HONDA Pata Honda 11 Alex Lowes 80 pts GBR SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki 12 David Salom 56 pts ESP KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 13 Niccolo Canepa 39 pts ITA DUCATI Althea Racing 14 Leon Camier 30 pts GBR BMW BMW Motorrad Italia SBK 15 Jeremy Guarnoni 19 pts FRA KAWASAKI MRS Kawasaki 16 Luca Scassa 16 pts ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini 17 Fabien Foret 14 pts FRA KAWASAKI MAHI Racing Team India 18 Sheridan Morais 10 pts RSA KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team 19 Claudio Corti 10 pts ITA MV AGUSTA MV Agusta RC-Yakhnich Motorsport 20 Alessandro Andreozzi 8 pts ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini 21 Glen Allerton 6 pts AUS BMW BMW Motorrad Italia SBK 22 Kervin Bos 5 pts NED HONDA Winteb LiquidRubber Racing T. 23 Bryan Staring 3 pts AUS KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team 24 Michel Fabrizio 2 pts ITA KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team 25 Imre Toth 2 pts HUN BMW BMW Team Toth 26 Roamin Lanusse 1 pts FRA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini 27 Peter Sebestyen 0 pts HUN BMW BMW Team Toth 28 Geoff May 0 pts USA BIMOTA Team Hero EBR 29 Christian Iddon 0 pts GBR BIMOTA Team Alstare 30 Aaron Yates 0 pts USA BIMOTA Team Hero EBR .