Al Naimi on pole for Superstock 600

Doha: For first time in this season, Qatar’s Mishal Al Naimi secured the pole position during the fourth round of the Qatar Superstock 600 held at Losail International Circuit yesterday.

Al Naimi managed to make a lap time of 2.04.383 and will start from the first row tomorrow.

“Today it was very difficult for me from the beginning and I started very slow this morning. I tried to push because last week I did 2.03.7 and today I tried to go to 2.04 but it was impossible. In the Free Practice 2 I put new tires to see if I can improved but the lap time was the same” Al Naimi said.

“In the Superpole I found something in the steering dumper, last week it was harder and today it was different, so when I make it harder I felt a big different and I managed to make a good lap time, 2.04.3. But in any case, still we need to stay in this time as last week I could do it easily” Al Naimi said.

Saeed Al Sulaiti will start from the second place tomorrow on the grid.

“Today we started the free practices, with a really hot temperature, trying to find the right set up with the bike and we thought that we found the solution but unfortunately we were not fast enough,” he said.

Abdullah Al Qubaisi and Nasser Al Malki will start in third and fourth place respectively tomorrow from the grid.

In the QSTK Trophy, the fastest rider was Essa Al Mutawa. Soud Al Thani and the Kuwaiti rider Mohammad Al Zaidan finished second and third respectively in QSTK Trophy. The fastest rider in the QSTK Trophy, Al Mutawa was very happy with his performance.

“I am very happy to be the fastest rider in the QSTK Trophy and tomorrow I am ready to race for the victory. I have been training very hard during this last month and I have to do some small changes in the set up and I hope we can fix it and be 100% ready for tomorrow,” Al Mutawa said.