From a press release issued by MSS Discovery Kawasaki:

MSS DISCOVERY’S RIBA AND ALLAN SCOOP FRONT ROW STARTS AT BRANDS HATCH

MSS Discovery team aces Pere Riba and Steve Allan will start from the front row of the grid in their respective British Supersport and National Superstock Championship races at Brands Hatch, Kent on Sunday.

Riba took third place in qualifying for round seven of the British Supersport Championship aboard his Kawasaki ZX-6RR, adding to his front row starts at Snetterton in round three and in the last round at Thruxton.

“We’ve had a good two days of practice and qualifying here at Brands and the whole package feels strong,” said Riba. “The rear Pirelli tyre is as good as I’ve had this year and the ZX-6RR is working well.

“The race will be all about me getting off the line with the leaders, after that I think I can be in good shape throughout the race and hopefully I can climb the podium tomorrow afternoon.”

Spanish ace Riba is fourth in the championship points standings and looking to extend his run of form after taking seventh place in last week’s World Supersport Championship round at Silverstone.

Allan then repeated Riba’s display by taking third place on the grid for the sixth round of the National Superstock Championship aboard the MSS Discovery Kawasaki ZX-10R.

“I’m pleased to be on the front row again,” admitted Allan who held pole position for much of the session on Saturday evening. “I’m pretty certain I could’ve gone quicker but spots of rain appeared on the visor and the last thing I wanted to do was crash.”

Allan continued: “We’ve got a great setting with the ZX-10R and it’s felt good since I first took to the track here on Friday afternoon. I think some of the opposition used softer compound race tyres during qualifying today and I could have done with giving one a go but the rain put a stop to that.”

British Supersport Championship final qualifying times:

1 Karl Harris, Honda, 1:29.269
2 Simon Andrews, Yamaha, 1:29.406
3 Pere Riba, MSS Discovery Kawasaki, 1:29.651
4 Paul Young, Honda, 1:29.753
5 Matt Llewellyn, Ducati, 1:29.765
6 Leon Camier, Honda, 1:29.772
7 Jay Vincent, Honda, 1:29.772
8 Michael Laverty, Ducati, 1:29.932
9 Adrian Coates, Suzuki, 1:29.963
10 Luke Quigley, Suzuki, 1:30.041


National Superstock Championship final qualifying times:

1 Dave Johnson, Yamaha, 1:29.266
2 Danny Beaumont, Yamaha, 1:29.857
3 Steve Allan MSS Discovery Kawasaki, 1:29.960
4 Andy Tinsley, Suzuki, 1:30.045
5 Tristan Palmer, Suzuki, 1:30.100
6 Jamie Morley, Suzuki, 1:30.377
7 Mark Heckles, Yamaha, 1:30.716
8 Les Shand, Yamaha, 1:30.878
9 Darren Mitchell, Suzuki, 1:31.003
10 John Crockford, Suzuki, 1:31.155


More, from a press release issued by Team Suzuki:

CHAMBON 10TH AT SILVERSTONE
Stephane Chambon raced to tenth place in today’s sixth-round World Supersport Championship round at Silverstone as his Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra team mates Katsuaki Fujiwara and Vittorio Iannuzzo suffered technical problems half way into the race.

Despite lowly grid positions, all three started well and were eighth, tenth and 17th after the first lap, but Iannuzzo’s race lasted just eighth more circuits of the Northamptonshire circuit in England before he was forced to pull out with a mystery engine glitch on the 2004 Alstare GSX-R600 development Suzuki. Fujiwara managed one more lap more before pulling in with uncharacteristic chatter problems on his machine.

The 19-lap race featured a tremendous battle between Fabien Foret (Yamaha) and the two Hondas of Karl Muggeridge and Broc Parkes.


STEPHANE CHAMBON – 10th:

“It was a difficult weekend for me and I think, Kats and Vittorio also. We didn’t manage to make the bike much better and I had some problems in the race. I couldn’t push any harder without crashing so I had to settle for what I could get. I’m disappointed because I really wanted a top six finish here, but sometimes you don’t get what you want.”

KATSUAKI FUJIWARA – DNF:

“It’s been a problematic weekend. We started with the Monza settings because Silverstone is quite a fast track like Monza. But the setting didn’t work, so then we tried some settings from Oschersleben and they didn’t work either! In the race, the bike was sliding around after just two or three laps and then it began to chatter a lot. In the end I pulled in for safety reasons.”

VITTORIO IANNUZZO – DNF:

“Today the bike worked more or less the same as it has all weekend, so I just had to do what I could. It was going OK but then I had an engine problem and that was that. It felt like a long walk back to the pits and a bad end to a hard weekend.”

Results:

1 Foret (F-Yamaha), 2 Muggeridge (Aus-Honda), 3 Parkes (Aus-Honda), 4 Lanzi (I-Ducati), 5 Curtain (Aus-Yamaha), 6 vd Goorbergh (NL-Yamaha), 7 Riba (E-Kawasaki), 8 Charpentier (F-Honda), 9 Corradi (I-Honda), 10 CHAMBON (F-ALSTARE SUZUKI CORONA EXTRA), FUJIWARA (J-ALSTARE SUZUKI CORONA EXTRA) DNF, IANNUZZO (ALSTARE SUZUKI CORONA EXTRA) DNF.

Championship Points: 1 Muggeridge (Aus-Honda) 107, 2 vd Goorbergh (NL-Yamaha) 92, 3 Parkes (Aus-Honda), 69, 4 Curtain (Aus-Yamaha) 58, 5 Foret (F-Yamaha) 55, 6 Lanzi (I-Ducati) 50, 7 Charpentier (F-Honda) 48, 8 CHAMBON (F-ALSTARE SUZUKI CORONA EXTRA) 45, 9 FUJIWARA (J-ALSTARE SUZUKI CORONA EXTRA) 44, 10 Neukirchner (D-Honda) 36, 13 IANNUZZO (I-ALSTARE SUZUKI CORONA EXTRA) 20.