WSB Rd. 8, Brands Hatch, UK, Friday 4th August, 2006
Weather: overcast, 20° C
Track: dry, 25° C

Winston Ten Kate Honda’s Karl Muggeridge set the fifth fastest time of this afternoon’s opening qualifying session at round 8th of the World Superbike Championship here at Brands Hatch in UK.

Muggeridge was pretty happy with the progress they made since the morning free practice and improved his time by 1.3 seconds. Comparing to last year, the pace was one second quicker and this without the special qualifying tyres that were available in 2005.

Muggeridge is confident, that a better time is possible tomorrow morning and his looking forward to race around his favourite track here at Brands Hatch on Sunday hoping to be able to turn his season around.

Muggas comments: “We made reasonable progress in this afternoon’s session. Then I went out with a new tyre and set a pretty good time, there was a few guys following so I decided to slow down for a bit, but when I opened the gas again for another fast lap, the left side of the tyre cooled down and I lost the front in the left hander down the hill. No worries, I’m all good and the bike didn’t get much damage either. Bit a shame, I had a good feeling the next lap was going to be a pearler.”