Jerez: Arenas smashes Krummi’s pole record – Domi Aegerter fourth!

In the morning’s free practice session, Ducati rider Matteo Ferrari set the fastest lap at the Circuito de Jerez with a time of 1:42.020. Just 0.047 seconds slower was Jorge Navarro on the Triumph Street Triple, who is standing in for Oli Bayliss in the PTR team – the Australian is competing in the BSB this weekend. World Champion Albert Arenas (Yamaha) followed in third place.

Jaume Masià (Ducati), who was struggling following his crash at Estoril, was banned from racing for the rest of the weekend after the session – the World Championship bronze medallist could only move around the paddock on crutches.

As with the second free practice session in the Superbike category, the Superpole for the Supersport World Championship took place in glorious summer weather at 30 degrees Celsius. As the middle category has only one free practice session, the riders spent most of the 40-minute session fine-tuning their bikes. Qualifying got underway slightly later than scheduled at 4.05 pm.

Jorge Navarro set the first notable lap time, clocking 1:41.939 on his second flying lap – already faster than he had been that morning. Then things happened in quick succession: first Jeremy Alcoba (Kawasaki), then Arenas narrowly missed Randy Krummenacher’s 2019 lap record with a time of 1:41.795.

After just ten minutes, the new world champion set a new entry in the Jerez pole position statistics with a time of 1:41.622 minutes!

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At the halfway stage, Arenas remained in the lead, with Tom Booth-Amos (Triumph) and Ferrari trailing by just 0.050 and 0.087 seconds respectively. A welcome sight: Dominique Aegerter shone in fourth place ahead of his Kawasaki team-mate Alcoba and Navarro. Philipp Öttl followed in 15th and Andreas Kofler (Yamaha) in 27th.

Strange: ZX Moto rider Valentin Debise, in 16th place, had yet to set a competitive lap time. The Frenchman has already secured the runner-up spot in the world championship.

With 15 minutes to go, Can Öncü – who had been unremarkable until then – stormed to the top with a record time of 1:41.462 mins. But at the same time, Arenas was also on a fast lap and was an impressive 0.378 sec quicker still! Randy Krummenacher’s seven-year-old record had now been beaten by 0.7 seconds!

With ten minutes to go, most riders returned to their teams. Sector bests were clocked by Navarro, Aegerter, Ferrari, Öncü and Lucas Mahias (Yamaha), but Arenas’s fastest time held firm against every challenge. Furthermore, numerous laps were disallowed because Öncü braked too hard in the first corner two minutes before the end and subsequently dug his bike in.

The result stood: the Spaniard from Team AS Racing claimed this year’s final Superpole. Navarro secured second place on the grid; Öncü completes the front row.

Dominique Aegerter delivered his best qualifying performance of the year by finishing fourth – a strong sign of life from the Swiss rider, whose upward trend has been evident since Cremona. Behind the 35-year-old came Alcoba and Mattia Casadei (6th) on the fastest Ducati.

ZX Moto star Valentin Debise improved to 12th place, which is likely to be a bitter disappointment for the six-time winner this season. The best Honda rider was – as always – Corentin Perolari in 16th on the grid. Raffaele De Rosa secured a modest 23rd place on the grid for QJ Motor.

Philipp Öttl was left deeply frustrated: after the Bavarian rattled through the gravel in the closing stages, the Feel Racing rider could not manage better than 19th place. The Austrian Andreas Kofler qualified in 30th place.