WorldSBK Navarra Superpole Results | Jonathan Rea goes 7 Up with another pole

Jonathan Rea continued his superb run of Superpole success by clinching his seventh pole position in a row for the inaugural WorldSBK event to be held at Navarra.

Maintaining his 100% record of Superpoles this year, yet again Rea was in impeccable form over a single lap as he left it late to shuffle his way to the top of the timesheets on his final run.

Guaranteeing pole position for two of this weekend’s three races at least, Rea’s mood was lifted further by arch title rival Toprak Razgatlioglu failing to make it any higher than the third row in eighth position.

The Turkish rider comes into the weekend having trimmed Rea’s advantage down to just three points, but faces more of an uphill task coming into this afternoon’s Race 1 and tomorrow’s morning’s Superpole Race.

Instead, Rea will have his other title rival for company on the front row with Scott Redding - 50 points adrift of the top spot - grabbing second, ahead of the rider he will replace in the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK team next season, Tom Sykes.

Andrea Locatelli enjoyed the kudos of top Yamaha rider in fourth position, ahead of a vastly more competitive than of late Chaz Davies, the Welshman going sixth fastest for Go Eleven Ducati after weeks hampered by a shoulder injury sustained at Misano.

Having skipped Most through injury, Lucas Mahias was back on form over a single lap for sixth on the grid on the Puccetti Kawasaki, seeing off Alex Lowes on the factory ZX-10RR and Razgatlioglu in eighth.

Garrett Gerloff and Michael van der Mark round out the top ten, while Honda’s patchy campaign continued on as Alvaro Bautista could only manage 12th, with Leon Haslam 17th.

 2021 WorldSBK Navarra, Spain | Superpole Qualifying RESULTS