Sam Lowes on pole despite crash
Championship leader Sam Lowes (Yakhnich Motorsport Yamaha) is the pole-sitter for tomorrow's World Supersport race at Silverstone. The young British rider put in an impressive new best lap in 2'07.666 seconds with two minutes left in the second qualifying session, before crashing out of Turn 7 while trying to further improve his time. Kenan Sofuoglu (Mahi Racing Team India Kawasaki) will be alongside Lowes on the first row of the grid, along with home rider Christian Iddon, who gave Team ParkinGO MV Agusta Corse and the F3 their first front row start of the season.
Scotsman Kev Coghlan (DMC Lorenzini Kawasaki) rode to an impressive fourth place, ahead of one event rider Florian Marino (Intermoto Ponyexpres Kawasaki), Michael van der Mark (Pata Honda World Supersport) and Fabien Foret (Mahi Racing Team India Kawasaki).
Tough luck for Sheridan Morais (PTR Honda), who lost control of his CBR600RR at Turn 11 while he was on his way to improve his lap-time. Morais' team mate Matt Davies had a crash too, five minutes after the start of the session, while Russian Vladimir Leonov (Yakhnich Motorsport Yamaha) suffered a technical problem on his YZF-R6.
