SuperBike Grid 
1 Steve Plater (Kawasaki), 2 Steve Hislop (Ducati), 3 John Reynolds (Ducati), 4 Michael Rutter (Kawasaki), 5 Paul Brown (Ducati), 6 James Haydon (Yamaha), 7 Shane Byrne (Suzuki), 8 Jamie Robinson (Yamaha), 9 Sean Emmett (Ducati), 10 John Crawford (Suzuki)

SuperSport 
Suzuki’s Karl Harris took pole position for the 18-lap race around the 2.35-mile Hampshire circuit with the Yamaha of Matt Llewellyn sandwiched in third place by two Castrol Honda CBR600F Sport machines.

“I’m a bit disappointed not to have held on to pole,” said McGuinness, winner of the last round at Brands Hatch two weeks ago. “I was looking at P1 on my pit board for most of the session but I got baulked a little at the end and that gave Karl his chance. I’m happy with my race set-up though and looking forward to my second win tomorrow.”

McCarthy was fastest in the first wet qualifying session this morning but lack of time prevented him getting an ideal dry set up for his SuperSport Honda.

“I’ll be happy if it rains tomorrow,” said the Australian, currently leading the British Supersport championship from McGuinness by 25 points, “because the wet bike is great! I was losing grip over the Thruxton bumps though so we’ll have to get it right for the race.”

Castrol Honda team-manager, Roger Harvey, is happy with the team’s performance today saying: “Considering what little set up time we’ve had, I’ll settle for two front row positions. Let’s not forget the Honda CBR600F Sport has been fully revised this year so every circuit is pretty much new.”

Final SuperSport qualifying times: 1 Karl Harris (Suzuki) 1m19.564s, 2 John McGuinness (Castrol Honda) 1:19.736, 3 Matt Llewellyn (Yamaha) 1:17.988, 4 Kirk McCarthy (Castrol Honda) 1:20.309, 5 Glen Richards (Honda) 1:20.524, 6 Gary Mason (Honda) 1:20.597, 7 Scott Smart (Suzuki) 1:20.785, 8 Paul Young (Suzuki) 1:20.917, 9 Danny Beaumont (Yamaha) 1:21.029, 10 Gary May (Yamaha) 1:21.170.