World SuperSport 2002 - Round 4 - Sugo

Local rider and World Championship regular Katsuaki Fujiwara (Alstare Suzuki) took the provisional, pole only one thousandth of a second ahead of Fabien Foret (Ten Kate Honda).

In third place, Paolo Casoli was close behind the leading duo, while his countryman Piergiorgio Bontempi was an excellent fourth on what is supposed to be an outgunned NCR Ducati 748.

Stephane Chambon heads up the provisional second row of the grid, one ahead of James Whitham.

Gearing and set up problems for reigning World Champion Andrew Pitt held him down in 14th fastest position, although the top 14 were all timed within 1.022 seconds of pole.

Katsuaki Fujiwara - Suzuki - 1m32.852s
Fabien Foret - Honda - 1m32.853s
Paolo Casoli - Yamaha - 1m32.898s
Piergiorgio Bontempi - Ducati - 1m33.265s
Stephane Chambon - Suzuki - 1m33.329s
James Whitham - Yamaha - 1m33.333s
Karl Muggeridge - Honda - 1m33.356s
Chris Vermeulen - Honda - 1m33.370s
Tatsuya Yamaguchi - Honda - 1m33.371s
Iain MacPherson - Honda - 1m33.402s
Werner Daemen - Honda - 1m33.680s
Christian Kellner - Yamaha - 1m33.730s
Jorg Teuchert - Yamaha - 1m33.830s
Andrew Pitt - Kawasaki - 1m33.874s
Kevin Curtain - Yamaha - 1m33.925s
Alessio Corradi - Yamaha - 1m34.282s
Antonio Carlacci - Yamaha - 1m34.478s
Christophe Cogan - Honda - 1m35.049s
David De Gea - Honda - 1m35.142s
Stefano Cruciani - Yamaha - 1m35.332s
Robert Frost - Yamaha - 1m35.398s
Mark Willis - Yamaha - 1m35.627s
Gianluca Nannelli - Ducati - 1m35.885s
James Ellison - Kawasaki - 1m35.958s
Diego Giugovaz - Yamaha - 1m36.731s

Apr 19 - WSBK - Qualifying 1, Sugo. Most of the boys go slower than they did in free practice
Apr 19 - WSS - Qualifying 1, Sugo - Muggeridge Report -
Apr 19 - WSBK - Free Practice 1, Sugo
Apr 19 - WSS - Free Practice 1, Sugo
Apr 19 - History - Jarno Saarinen
Apr 19 - MotoGP - Interesting statistics after Suzuka
Apr 19 - Funny - What is a bastard ?
Apr 19 - Pictorial - Images of the Yoshimura booth from the Tokyo Motorcycle Show earlier this month, I want the factory Yoshimura DR-Z
Apr 18 - Tipping - All the wildcard riders for this weekend have been added to the selections in our tipping comp'
Apr 18 - WSBK - Michelin preview Sugo, which is somewhat known as a Dunlop track