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Saturday, 24 October 2009 10:28 |
 World Supersport report - Front row finale for Sofuoglu.
Kenan Sofuoglu will start tomorrow’s final 2009 World Supersport championship race at Portimao in Portugal from the front row of the grid after setting the fourth fastest time in this afternoon’s qualifying session.
The Turkish rider lapped the 4.59km Portimao circuit in a time of 1’45.157s as Honda’s Eugene Laverty took pole position with series leader Cal Crutchlow just 0.073s behind him.
Sofuoglu’s Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team-mate Andrew Pitt faces an uphill battle with a third row start, having been eleventh fastest today.
Kenan Sofuoglu – P4, 1’45.157s
This morning’s free practice session was perfect and I was confident of doing a mid-44's lap. But the grip this afternoon was much lower than this morning and the times didn’t come. We changed tyres and maybe went the wrong way, but it’s good to know that everything is so close, with just hal f a second splitting the top six. It will be the same in the race tomorrow, I am sure, and I am ready to win.
Andrew Pitt – P11, 1’46.072s
There’s not much to report, really. The session didn’t start well when I found it really hard to shift gear, and then the grip levels dropped from this morning. I thought we’d be OK this afternoon but I just couldn’t find the grip – even though we tried the harder tyre. It’ll be an interesting tyre choice for tomorrow, but we’ll just give it a good go from where we are.
Ronald ten Kate – team manager
As we all remember from last year, it’s going to be a very hard battle in the race tomorrow. We’ll try to find a bit more grip for Andrew in the morning warm-up but he’ll need a good start to be in the thick of it. We know that Kenan will be mixing it from the start, thou gh, and it should be an exciting race.
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