MCNEWS.COM.AU - The ultimate in motorcycle news 2006 Australian Superbike Championship (YMF Loan) - Round Four - Queensland Raceway
July 7th, 2006 - By, Trevor Hedge
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Unedited notes from live text update page on Friday

  • 1706 - That's it for the day, Nakedbike first qualifying provisional results - The V8 Supercar versus Superbike challenge scheduled for Sunday has been cancelled due to problems with TEGA
  • 1632 - Superbike Provisional Combined Practice Times
  • 1631 - Riders on their last lap now...
  • 1623 - Fergusson improves a little, down to 70.70
  • 1621 - Less than ten minutes to run and at the moment it is Holland, Jamie Stauffer, Fergusson, Bugden, Dan Stauffer, Allerton, Johnson, Waters
  • 1618 - Full Results from FX Cup First Qualifying
  • 1615 - Bugden improving, now fourth quickest with a 70.93
  • 1612 - Russell Holland to the top of the charts!  70.08 to the Pirelli shod Fireblade.
  • 1607 - Adam Fergusson the first of the fast boys to improve, down to 70.88 from this mornings 71.04. Still more than half a second away though from Jamie's 70.24 this morning
  • 1603 - Superbikes on track now, track temperature around 31-32c, a reasonable breeze but nothing that will pose them too many problems. As ever, it is the bumps here that really affect the riders, one of the fast boys describing the braking bumps at turn three like a rhythm section at a supercross track!
  • 1533 - The FX Cup session has been red flagged due to a faller at turn three, session will be restarted with 21 minutes remaining
  • 1520 - Provisional Supersport Combined Practice Times - FX Cup C&D Graders out for their first qualifier now
  • 1517 - O'Halloran quicker again, 72.26, no other real movement by the fast boys and the flag is about to come out to end the session
  • 1515 - Okay now we have some movement at the top, O'Halloran was quickest this morning and he just lowered his mark a little further with a 72.42, just marginally quicker than this morning
  • 1511 - Aitchison the only improver out of the front runners thus far, 6 minutes remaining, Aitchison just moved up to third quickest with a 72.84
  • 1507 - Still no real forward progress for the front runners, 10 minutes remaining in this session
  • 1500 - Nobody getting too excited in this Supersport session as yet, none of the front runners have improved their times from this morning as yet
  • 1450 - 600 Supersports heading out now for their final practice session for the day
  • 1445 - Craig McMartin unchallenged on provisional pole in the Pro Twins. Mick Kelly is not aboard the Ducati 749R this weekend so it appears McMartin is set to walk away with the races here this weekend. He just put down a 74.05 in the first qualifier, 1.1 seconds quicker than second placed Paul Roe. And with only nine machines turning a wheel in anger here today the Pro Twins bouts look set to be a yawnfest
  • 1428 - Pro Twins First Qualifier on now and again it is McMartin way ahead of Roe, Johnston and Van Rooyen
  • 1420 - 125 First Qualifying has wrapped up and it is Moller on provisional pole ahead of Esler, Galvin, Hatton, Rigoli and Thompson. Full results shortly
  • 1409 - Only a few minutes remaining in this 125 GP first qualifying session and at the moment Rhys Moller is the man to bear on on 78.8 ahead of Malcolm Esler (79.1), Peter Galvin (79.4) and Tom Hatton (79.5)
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  • 1403 - Also a reminder for WA residents that HRCA will be hosting a track day at the challenging Wanneroo Raceway later this month, click here for the flyer (opens in separate window, 258kb PDF)
  • 1400 - Suzuki today released the details on their corporate package for the Australian MotoGP. Only 150 Suzuki owners and their guests will be catered for. Worth over $740 and including a Suzuki merchandise pack valued at $170 along with all food and soft drink and the chance to meet the Suzuki MotoGP stars and Australian Superbike pilots with a walk down MotoGP pit-lane also included in the package.  Suzuki also today released details on the new 2007 RM-Z450, check out their new website for all the details on the GP package and the new models
  • 1358 - Full Results from Superstock First Qualifying
  • 1347 - Okay this time the Superstock first qualifier has finished and it is Quinn on provisional pole ahead of Kokshoorn then it is Houwen, Sciberras, Yates, Andrews, Trounson, Bloomfield, Higgins and Broadfoot. 125 first qualifying up next
  • 1332 - It seems I was a little quick on the draw with the Superstock results from that qualifier, the sessions stopped with over 10 minutes remaining due to a red flag with a bike down at turn four. The sessions is up and running again now so that order I gave you before was really more of a mid session update
  • 1325 - Sorry about the break in transmission guys, we are having some 'technical' issues as you may have worked out. We have managed to get some more results up for you all however - Twins P1 - Superbike P1 - Superstock first qualifying just wrapped up with Kokshoorn on provisional pole ahead of Houwen, Quinn, Andrews, Sciberras, Yates, Trounson and Higgins
  • 1221 - Jamie Stauffer straight down to business with a 71.05, the only man thus far in the 71s.....
  • 1218 - Superbikes on track now, the breeze has got up a fair bit but nothing that should cause them too many problems. Track temp will be rising and will be very warm later this afternoon it seems
  • 1204 - Sorry about the break there readers, just had to nip down to the pits and have a word with a few of the boys and get some footage for some upcoming Podcasts. 125 GP First Practice Results are up and with five minutes remaining in the Pro Twins session it is Craig McMartin a mile ahead of Paul Roe and Mick Johnston
  • 1105 - Conditions about perfect here today, probably somewhere around 20c with very little breeze
  • 1101 - FX Cup on track now, this is a class for mixed capacity machines ridden by C&D graded riders. So far in their first practice session Barnes is leading the way with a 75.2 which is a none too shabby time. Domaschenz, Keene, Turner and Fraser also in the 75s
  • 1059 - Supersport First Practice Results - Things are a little slow for us here today, we are working off a wireless connection with an intermittent one bar of CDMA coverage
  • 1047 - Link to Superstock First Practice results is fixed
  • 1030 - Welcome to our text update service live from Queensland Raceway for round four of the YMF Loan Australian Superbike Championship.  Supersport first practice is underway at the moment, already the results from Superstock and Nakedbike first practices are in. With ten minutes remaining for the Supersport boys it is Jason O'Halloran with a 72.5 the early pacesetter from Shaun Geronomi (72.7), Jamie Stauffer (72.8), Mark Aitchison (73.5), Brendan Clarke (73.7) and Adam Fergusson (73.8)

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