Van den Bosch takes Pole in Busca GP

BUSCA (ITALY), 4 October 2008 – A sunny Busca welcomed the Superiders at this penultimate round of the 2008 season.

Thierry Van Den Bosch took a storming pole in the S1 class leading Championship leader Bernd Hiemer. It was Adrien Chareyre taking the honours in the S2 class topping the time sheets ahead of Christian Iddon.

In the S3 class Olivier Scheen took pole as Fabrizio Bartolini was the quickest in the Open class.

S1

Courtesy of an incredible lap DRC SuperMoto Aprilia Factory’s Thierry Van Den Bosch took today’s pole as he was the sole rider breaking the 1 minute 19 second barrier. The Frenchman sits second in the standings as KTM Italia Miglio’s Bernd Hiemer leads the Championship.

Thierry VDB on a power slide

The latter took a solid second quickest time behind VDB as he led the first half of the timed session before Van Den Bosch’s charge.

The duo will be back to action tomorrow morning fighting for the Superpole together with other challengers HM Honda Racing Monticelli’s Jerome Giraudo and the winner of the latest GP in Andorra Thomas Chareyre onboard the Husqvarna CH Racing machine.

Bernd Hiemer having fun at the end of the free practice

Third placed in the Championship Ivan Lazzarini took fifth missing the front row by 0.2 seconds as Eddy Seel was sixth.

Using a special clutch lever combining also the rear brake lever Matthew Winstanley struggled throughout qualifying and decided to use the standard brake and clutch system in tomorrow’s GP.

Top five: 1. Thierry van den Bosch (FRA, Aprilia), 1:18.697; 2. Bernd Hiemer (GER, KTM), +0:00.387; 3. Jerome Giraudo (FRA, Honda), +0:00.414; 4. Thomas Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), +0:00.502; 5. Ivan Lazzarini (ITA, Aprilia), +0:00.712

S2

Championship leader Adrien Chareyre took a solid pole aboard the works Husqvarna with PMR H2O Aprilia Off Road’s Christian Iddon and KTM Italia Miglio’s Attilio Pignotti also on the same pace of 1.19 minutes.

Adrien Chareyre checking out the pit board

The trio will head the Superpole challenge as TM Factory’s Davide Gozzini is set to round off the front row after a shot to the top spot tomorrow.

Gozzini is still six points off Chareyre in a dogfight for the S2 World Title; Gerald Delepine is a distant third and he was fifth in today’s time sheets.

The defending Champion will head row two next to young guns and home riders Andrea Occhini and Paolo Gaspardone.

Luca Minutilli was ninth as he can still build on his fifth place in the Championship exploiting Massimo Beltrami’s absence due to injury.

Christian Iddon took a solid second today

Top five: 1. Adrien Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), 1:19.407; 2. Christian Iddon (GBR, Aprilia), +0:00.477; 3. Attilio Pignotti (ITA, KTM), +0:00.553; 4. Davide Gozzini (ITA, TM), +0:00.658; 5. Gérald Delepine (BEL, Husqvarna), +0:00.919

Source: Youthstream