Kagayama tops practice

Yukio Kagayama has set the fastest time in the opening practice session for the Brno round of the World Superbike championship.

The Suzuki rider just 0.06 of a second ahead of former champion James Toseland on the Honda Fireblade and Regis Laconi on the Kawasaki ZX-10R.
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Both Toseland and Laconi finished the session with exactly the same time, down to the thousandth of a second but Laconi slipped to third in the rankings by having a slightly slower top speed.

Finishing the front row of the provisional grid was factory Ducati rider Lorenzo Lanzi over a tenth of a second behind Kagayama.

Official times:

KAGAYAMA

TOSELAND 0.064

LACONI 0.064

LANZI 0.122

HAGA 0.163

CORSER 0.254

MUGGERIDGE 0.405

WALKER 0.487

PITT 0.615

BARROS 0.756

NIETO 0.78

FABRIZIO 0.863

BAYLISS 0.934

GIMBERT 1.048

ABE 1.052

ROLFO 1.405

MARTIN 1.512

CLEMENTI 1.592

NAKATOMI 1.611

FORET 1.705

CHILI 1.709

JONES 2.22

XAUS 2.246

BORCIANI 3.146

SZKOPEK 3.635

BROOKES 3.65

DRAZDAK 3.935

IANNUZZO 4.72

CAMLEK 5.105

SVOBODA 5.535

CIHAK 5.617