The third round of European S2 Supermoto is held this weekend in Busca (Italy). Under cloudy skies German rider Marc Reiner Schmidt was the fastest in the qualifying sessions at the recently renovated circuit.
Marc Reiner Schmidt has proven to be an unstoppable force, setting the fastest times in each and every one of the practice sessions, including free practice and timed training as well as walking away with the first four race victories of the season. The TM rider waited until three minutes to go before leapfrogging the Italian Giovanni Bussei to set his third straight pole position of the season by almost three-tenths of a second.
Second position was the best qualifying of the season for Bussei and after finishing third overall at the round of Italy (round two) will believe he has the tools to challenge for the win on Sunday.
Honda L30 of Yuri Guardalà was third with a time that was just 0.084 behind Bussei and rounds out the front row and will be looking to improve on his seventh position in the Championship standings.
Heading up the second row with the fourth fastest time will be TM Racing Mattia Martella who currently sits third in the standings. The TM rider who finished second overall last time out at Ottobiano will be looking to gain vital ground on the Finn Toni Klem who is just six points ahead of him in points, and today Martella drew first blood by finishing one place ahead of his teammate Klem with a time that was 0.488 quicker. For Klem, his fifth place in timed training was his best of the season so far. Sixth position went to the Assomotor Honda of Fabrizio Bartolini.
S2 Qualifying top ten:
Schmidt Marc-Reiner (GER-TM) +01:19.466; 2. Bussei Giovanni (ITA-TM) +01:19.713; 3. Guardalà Yuri (ITA-HONDA) +01:19.797; 4. Martella Mattia (ITA-TM)+01:19.863; 5. Klem Toni (FIN-TM) +01:20.351; 6. Bartolini Fabrizio (ITA-HONDA) +01:20.666; 7. Vorlicek Petr (CZE-SUZUKI) +01:21.035; 8. Monticelli Diego (ITA-HONDA) +01:21.086; 9. Promutico Lorenzo (ITA-HONDA) +01:21.461; 10. Llados Joan (ESP-APRILIA) +01:21.480
