Philippe Puts SERT 16th - Kagayama and Checa Lap in 2:08s

We haven't received the combined qualifying results yet, but we do know which rider was quickest on which bike.

Below are the (unofficial) top 18 fastest times from the first sessions. It's usual suspects at the top, with Kagayama fastest on the Yoshimura Suzuki, ahead of the HRC Honda's of Checa and Kiyonari. James Toseland lapped in the 2:09s but could not match his team mate Kiyonari, while Jonny Rea has been demoted to reserve rider in favour of Tady Okada.

SERT Suzuki's Vincent Philippe has put the GSX-R1000 into 16th place, the quickest of the permanent teams, and ahead of FCC TSR Eurosport's local circuit specialist Iwata in 18th place. Sadly, now that the special stage Attack and Jump Up Superpole is restricted to the top ten teams, we won't see any of the permanent teams in action tomorrow.

1st 34: JSB YOSHIMURA SUZUKI with JOMO 34 GSX-R1000 Y.KAGAYAMA 2'08.735

2nd 33: JSB TEAM HRC 33 CBR1000RR C.CHECA 2'08.902 162.57km/h

3rd 11: JSB TEAM HRC 11 CBR1000RR R.KIYONARI 2'09.041

4th 21: JSB YAMAHA RACING 21 YZF-R1 K.NAKASUGA 2'09.327

5th 73: JSB Kyubo. com team HARC-PRO. CBR1000RR Y.KONISHI 2'09.472 1

6th 12: JSB YOSHIMURA SUZUKI with JOMO 12 GSX-R1000 A.WATANABE 2'09.535

7th 2: JSB Team SAKURAI HONDA 2 CBR1000RR C.KAMEYA 2'09.585

8th 778: SBK F.C.C.TSR ZIP-FM Racing Team CBR1000RR S.ITO 2'09.753

9th 54: JSB MASKED RIDER DEN-O Honda DREAM RT CBR1000RR K.TOKUDOME 2'10.079

10th 81: JSB YAMAHA RACING 81 YZF-R1 N.ABE 2'10.303

11th 19: JSB MORIWAKI MOTUL RACING CBR1000RR T.YAMAGUCHI 2'10.576

12th 775: JSB RACINGTEAM HONEYBEE CBR1000RR H.NODA 2'11.572

13th 44: JSB Weider DDBOYS HCBR1000RR T.HAMAGUCHI 2'12.087

14th 39: JSB TEAMCHALLENGER YZF-R1 N.NUMATA 2'12.345

15th 53: JSB Deotex PANTHERA PLOT GSX-R1000 H.OGATA 2'12.501

16th 1: SBK SUZUKI ENDURANCE RACING TEAM GSX-R1000 V.PHILIPPE 2'12.517

17th 71: JSB Team SAKURAI HONDA 71 CBR1000RR Y.TAKEDA 2'12.527

18th 4: SBK F.C.C. TSR EUROSPORT BENELUX CBR1000RR S.IWATA 2'12.744

I haven't had time (Ok, I couldn't be bothered: 81 teams, 200 and something riders…) to calculate the positions of the rest of the permanent teams, but here is how they compare to each other:

7: SBK YAMAHA AUSTRIA RACING TEAM#07(YART) YZF-R1 I.JERMAN 2'14.056

38: SPP ENDURANCE MOTO 38 YZF-R1 E.NIGON 2'14.963

3: SBK PHASE ONE ENDURANCE YZF-R1 G.RICHARDS 2'15.550

95: SBK QERT ZX-10R S.KARITA 2'15.556

8: SBK BOLLIGER TEAM SWITZERLAND ZX-10R D.MORILLON 2'15.773

35: SPP RT Racing Team & Motovirus / TECH S-GSX-R1000 N.YAMADA 2'17.076

666: SBK DIABLO 666 BOLLIGER ZX-10R G.MASON 2'17.252

021: SBK RMT #21 RACING CBR1000RR J.SMRZ 2'17.647

6: SPP TEAM ZONE ROUGE YAMAHA BELGIQUE YZF-R1 O.DEPOORTER 2'18.773

57: SST TEAM LTG 57 YZF-R1 A.DOS SANTOS 2'19.357

012: SBK Team Suzuki Sweden GSX-R1000 T.ANDERSSON 2'19.694

9: SPP Amadeus X-one YZF-R1 R.RICCI 2'20.299

014: SPP MACO MOTO RACING TEAM YZF-R1 T.MIKSOVSKY 2'20.677

16: SPP TEAM RAFFIN MOTOS ZX-10R P.GROSJEAN 2'21.776

100: SST TEAM ENDURANCE MOTO 45 GSX-R1000 N.JAULNEAU 2'22.218

134: SST TEAM ABG PERFORMANCE GSX-R1000 E.DEBRAY 2'24.431

Although Yamaha Austria are one second behind SERT and FCC TSR, they are almost a second clear of Moto38, a second and half clear of Phase One, QERT and Bolliger , and two and a half seconds clear of the rest of the permanent pack.

The only rider not to qualify in his group was Moto45's Levrel, who missed the cut-off by 0.25 seconds; his team mates Jallneau and Louvel have both qualified.

Hopefully we can bring you the full qualifying positions later today….

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