For first time this season, Qatar’s Mishal al-Naimi took the Superpole for the fourth round of the Qatar Superstock 600 yesterday at Losail International Circuit.
With a very hot track conditions, al-Naimi managed to make a lap time of 2:04.383 secs and will start from the first row today.
“Today it was very difficult for me from the beginning and I started very slow this morning. I tried to push because last week I did 2.03.7secs and today I tried to go to 2.04 but it was impossible. In the Free Practice 2, I put new tyres to see if I can improve but the lap time was the same,” said al-Naimi.
“In the Superpole I found something in the steering dumper, last week it was harder and today it was different, so when I made it harder I felt a big difference and managed to make a good lap time of 2:04.3sec,” he added.
Saeed al-Sulaiti will start from the second place on the grid. “Today we started the free practices, with a really hot temperature, trying to find the right set up with the bike and we thought that we found the solution but unfortunately we were not fast enough,” he said.
“For tomorrow we will do some changes to feel better with the bike and hope we can find the right strategy that can take us to fight for the victory. I am really happy that Abdullah will start from the first row for the first time. He did it amazing today and his lap timing is really fast, improving a lot and I hope he can stay with us tomorrow in the race.” Al-Sulaiti added.
Abdullah al-Qubaisi and Nasser al-Malki will start in third and fourth place respectively from the grid.
In the QSTK Trophy, the fastest rider was Essa al-Mutawa. Soud al-Thani and the Kuwaiti rider Mohammad al-Zaidan finished second and third respectively in QSTK Trophy.
Al-Mutawa was very happy with his performance today. “I am very happy to be the fastest rider in the QSTK Trophy and tomorrow I am ready to race for the victory. I have been training very hard during this last month and I have to do some small changes in the set up and I hope we can fix it and be 100% ready for tomorrow,” said Al MutAwa.
Today, the QSTK Race 1 starts at 11:30am, while Race 2 is at 15:30. The entrance is free at the Grandstand and Paddock for spectators.