Al-Sulaiti, al-Khelaifi grab Superstock600, QTCC poles

Defending QSTK Champion and current leader in the standings, Saeed AlSulati, grabbed the pole position for the Qatarsupertock 600 yesterdayat the Losail Circuit. With strong winds hitting the track, al-Sulaiti managed to do thefastest lap, 2:04.840secs and will start tomorrow in first place at thegrid in front of Mashel al-Naimi. “In this round I am staring with newsuspension on the bike. I want to thank QMMF and Losail Circuit fororganising a private testing day before the race weekend as it gave us alot of information with this new set up,” said al-Sulaiti. “For FP1& FP2 we were focusing on riding with used tiers to set up the bikewith the new suspension. We made a good set up but not perfect. We stillneed to work more with the set-up.  But I am happy to set the fastesttime in tough track conditions,” added al-Sulaiti.Mashel al-Nami took the second position in the grid, clocking 2:05.399secs. “It was very difficult to make a good laptime today because of theweather and also I didn’t find a good set up today with my bike,” hesaid.Nasser al-Malki and Fahad al-Sowaidi will start in third and fourth place, respectively tomorrow from the grid.In the QSTK Trophy, the fastest rider was Essa al-Mutawa, with a laptime of 2:11.854secs. At the third round of Qatar Touring CarChampionship, the pole position again went to Qatar’s Abdullahal-Khelaifi with a time of 2:24.491secs during the qualifying session.Al-Khelaifi was very satisfied with the results of the day “Today’spractice session was ok. I found a good balance. In the qualifyingsession I tried to drive in the light side of the track where theasphalt was hot. I couldn’t get my timing up; the time was still slowerthan in the practice. I waited for the sun go down so everything wascooler and I managed to break my time. My plan tomorrow is to stay aheaduntil the first corner and to get away from the 2 Honda cars becausethen I can build a good gap” al-Khelaifi said.Hamad al-Asam, in a Honda Civic car, will start today from the secondplace after setting a lap time of 2:25.744secs. In third is Mansoural-Hajri, who clocked 2:28.838secs. Today, the QSTK Race 1 starts at 11:30pm and Race 2 at 2:30pm. The QTCCfirst race is scheduled at 1pm and the second at 4pm. Qatar Superstock600 and Qatar Touring Car Championship is organised by Losail CircuitSports Club and Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation.