A rider taking part in the races at the Losail International circuit yesterday.
Doha: Abdulla Al Qubaisi got the Superpole of the third round of the Qatar Superstock 600 held at Losail International Circuit.
Al Qubaisi, took his second Superpole of the season with a lap time of 2:03.094, in front of Mashel Al Naimi and Saeed Al Sulaiti respectively.
The young Qatari rider was very happy with his performance.
"In the free practice 2, I had a good feeling, I was riding mentally and physically focused, and in the Superpole my strategy was to ride the first two laps with used tyres and change new ones for the last laps.
It worked perfectly and managed to do the fastest lap in my last lap. Looking forward tomorrow to win both race" said Al Qubaisi.
Although Al Naimi’s bike was working perfectly and he had no problem with the tyres, the winner of last race couldn’t take the Superpole today and finished 0.416 behind Al Qubaisi.
"My bike was working very good today, no problem with the front tyre. I tried a new compound that worked good for long laps but I didn’t have good confidence in the break and in the middle of the corners. I changed and went back to my old tyre and it was perfect for the Superpole but Abdulla pushed too much and took it said Al Naimi.
The defendant QSTK Champion, Al Sulaiti, finished third in the Superpole. "Overall, I am happy with the results today and of course, I was hoping for a better position for tomorrow on the grid but the main thing is that we fixed problem from the last race, the rear suspension and we are able to have a good feeling with the bike," Al Sulaiti said.
In the QSTK Trophy, the fastest rider was the French rider Jeremy Parola followed by Alexander Qabazard from Kuwait and Rayad Al Emadi.
In this QSTK round, there was another category of bikes riding in the championship, the QSTK 300 Superstport with riders from the Qatar Motorsports Academy.
A total of 8 riders took part in this round where the fastest rider in the qualifying practice was the Qatari rider Saad Al Harqan followed by Hamad Al Sahouti and Yousef Al Darwish.
A total of 27 cars joined the third round of the Qatar Touring Car Championship, with the two categories running at the same time, QTCC 2K and QTCC M240.
In the QTCC 2K, the fastest driver in the qualifying session was Ibrahim Al Abdulghani with a Honda S200 and a lap time of 2:26.922. Although Abdulghani set the fastest lap time in his category, the driver was not satisfied at all with his performance.
"I qualified first in my class but I am a bit disappointed with my timings as my best time in the first round was 2:24.597 and now I am almost 3 seconds slower. I changed few things in the car and hopefully I do better tomorrow."
In the new category of the QTCC Championship, QTCC M240, the pole position was again for Abdulla Al Khelaifi with a lap time of 2:15.697 followed by Hamad Al Sulaiti and Nasser Saadon respectively, with a gap of 0.130s between the three of them.
