Team Pata Honda's van der Mark & Guintolli Struggle in World Superbike Qualifying at Motorland Aragon

Motorland Aragon - Spain    11.04.2015                 Fourth row start for Michael van der Mark at Aragon Michael van der Mark will start tomorrow’s third-round World Superbike championship races from the fourth row of the grid after qualifying in 11th position today at Aragon in Spain.   The Dutch rider had a positive start in the morning’s free practice runs and the team will take the data from all sessions to continue to work on obtaining the right setting for the 5.077km Aragon circuit.   Meanwhile Sylvain Guintoli will start the two 18-lap races a row behind his teammate in 14th position after missing out on Superpole this afternoon. It has been a difficult two days for Guintoli and his crew as they continue to seek the optimum setting for the Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade SP.  Michael van der Mark  - P11, 1m51.510s I had a good feeling this morning, we improved a little bit and I thought we could go a lot faster in Superpole but it didn’t work out. I think the race pace is ok, but we have to come from quite far back on the grid and I am a little disappointed with that, but tomorrow is a new day.  Sylvain Guintoli  - P14, 1m51.481s We struggled a little bit today and couldn’t get qualifying pace, with the race tyre it felt good but I wasn’t able to improve my times. It will be hard work tomorrow for the races, we are trying everything and the crew is working hard to make improvements. We have to keep our heads down and try our best during the races.  Pieter Breddels It’s been a difficult day, Michael was 11th and Sylvain missed out on Superpole in 14th place. There is a gap with the competition at the moment, but we have got a lot of data to go through and put some changes in place ready for warm-up tomorrow.  Weather Sunny Air 18°C Track 32°C Humidity 44%   Qualifying Results   1   Leon Haslam 1m49.664s GBR APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team - Red Devils 2   Chaz Davies 1m49.697s GBR DUCATI Aruba.it Racing-Ducati Superbike Team 3   Tom Sykes 1m49.863s GBR KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 4   Jonathan Rea 1m50.053s GBR KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 5   Xavi Fores 1m50.449s ESP DUCATI Aruba.it Racing-Ducati Superbike Team 6   Ayrton Badovini 1m50.670s ITA BMW JR Racing Team 7   Jordi Torres 1m50.735s ESP APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team - Red Devils 8   Alex Lowes 1m50.924s GBR SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki 9   Nicolas Terol 1m51.146s ESP DUCATI Althea Racing 10   Leandro Mercado 1m51.243s ARG DUCATI BARNI Racing Team 11   Michael van der Mark 1m51.510s NED HONDA Pata Honda World Superbike Team 14   Sylvain Guintoli 1m51.481s FRA HONDA Pata Honda World Superbike Team   Copyright-free images for editorial use only © 2015 Pata Honda.