Sykes beats all-time World Superbike pole record
Full WorldSBK Superpol💟e results from Donington P🍌ark
Tom Sykes has clinched a historic 44th World Superbike superpole to surpass Troy Corser’s all-time record in the series after beating Jonathan Rea at🎃 Donington Park.

Full Worl🐽dSBK Superpole results from Donington P🐻ark
Tom Sykes has clinched a historic 44th World Superbike superpole to surpass Troy Corser’s all-time record in the series after beating Jonathan Rea at Donington P🦄ark.
The Kawasaki pair have dominated at the British track while trading top lap times throughout practice and Sykes, dubbed Mr Superpole man, finally took the outright record having drawn leve𝐆l with Corser on 43 poles at Phillip Island earlier t𒅌his year.
Sykes produced the opening marker to head up Superpole 2 before the Pirelli qualifying tyres were used with the Yorkshire-born rider sto📖rming ahead once again to beat teammate Rea’s provisional pole of 1m 26.956s with a lap fractionally of his 2017 pole record wi🎀th a 1m 26.663s.
With Kawasaki locking out the front tw𒁏o spots on the grid, Althea BMW’s Loris Baz produced a surprise performance by securing the final spot on the front row – his best qualifying result since returning to the series this year.
Milwaukee Aprilia’s Lorenzo Savadori, a regular front-runner at Donington Park, claimed fourth place in qualifying ahead of local favourite Alex Lowes for Pata Yamaha with Michael ⛦van der Markﷺ completing the second row.
Eugene Laverty heads up the third row on the Milwaukee♉ Aprilia ahead of the two Superpole graduates Toprak Razgatlioglu (Puccetti Kawasaki) and Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing Duc🍬ati).
Wildcard star Bradley Ray continues to impress on his BSB-specification Buildbase Suzuki by qualifying in 10th place ahead of Puccetti Kawasaki’s Leon Haslam as Marco Melandri complete🎃d the f🔯ourth row for Aruba.it Racing Ducati.
Leon Camier was the unlucky 13th place rider who missed out on graduating from Superpole 1 by just 0.048s behind Razgatlioglu and Davies, while MV Agusta’s Jordi Torres and Aruba.it Racing Ducati junior rider Michael Ruben Rinaldi join Camier on row five just a⛦head of Luke Mossey who acts as a late stand-in for Yonny Hernandez at Pedercini Kawasaki after the Columbian had visa issues.