2011 WSBK Aragon Thursday Roundup

It is a mark of how Max Biaggi's luck seems to be running that during the final session of Superpole, Biaggi managed to first help Marco Melandri take pole for tomorrow's race, then prevent Tom Sykes from bumping Carlos Checa off the front row of the grid by getting in the way just as the Kawasaki rider was in the final stages of his last fast lap. Biaggi's starting point is good - 2nd, right next to Melandri, and 2 places up on Checa - but if fortune had been smiling on Biaggi, he would have pole and had Checa on the 2nd row, firmly behind him.

Little things like this can make a difference, but despite having the run of the green against him, Biaggi is actually in pretty good shape for the race tomorrow, the Aprilia rider the only man to get down into the 1'58 bracket on race tires, and half a second quicker than championship leader Checa. Checa, Biaggi and polesitter Melandri are clearly the class of the field at Aragon, and on the basis of practice, the three men most likely to be on the podium tomorrow.

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