From a press release:

WEBSTER UNTOUCHABLE IN QUALIFYING

Steve Webster continued his recent dominance with provisional pole after the first two qualifying sessions at Silverstone for round four of the World Superside championship.

Webster said: “We tried a brand new engine here in order to increase top-end speed and everything else is going to plan.”

Tom Hanks and passenger Phil Biggs achieved a season’s best second and the Halton Fabrications team is on a charge, having finished in fourth place at Oschersleben, Germany in the previous round.

Klaus Klaffenböck and Jörg Steinhausen posted the third and fourth fastest times respectively while reigning champion Steve Abbott could not improve on his earlier time due to a water pump problem.

The modifications made to the track have caused no end of problems for the sidecar teams as they try to negotiate the tricky Luffeld chicane.

“We tried various lines through the chicane, different systems. It has not been easy,” added Webster.


Friday’s Superside World championship qualifying times:
1 Steve Webster, GB (Suzuki) 2:00.419
2 Tom Hanks, GB (Yamaha) 2:01.776
3 Klaus Klaffenböck, Austria (Yamaha) 2:01.900
4 Jörg Steinhausen, Germany (Suzuki) 2:01.902
5 Martien van Gils, Holland (Suzuki) 2:02.721
6 Steve Abbott, GB (Suzuki) 2:02.910
7 Mike Roscher, Germany (Suzuki) 2:03.297
8 Jock Skene, GB (Suzuki) 2:03.618
9 Bill Philp, GB (Yamaha) 2:04.818
10 Gerhard Hauzenberger, Austria (Yamaha) 2:06.717