By Following opening timed qualifying sessions, the race for respective class pole positions heated-up in this afternoon’s timed qualifying stints at the Czech Republic’s most acclaimed roads course, Horice.
Before the Superbikes took centre stage overall qualifying victories were acquired by the following:
Ivo Dolezal (125 Sport Production), Patrik Kolar (125 Grand Prix), Radek Lamich (Supersport 300), Johannes Kehrer (250 Open), Petr Najman (Supersport & Supermono), Jan Markalous (Super Twins) and Dan Vyslouzil (Supersport 400).
Once the big bikes took to the unrelenting just over 5 kilometres long Horice course at 4:31 PM UK time, the knowledgeable trackside crowds were keeping close tabs on Q1 pace setter David Datzer.
10 minutes into Q2, former Newcomers A Manx GP winner Kamil Holan had surpassed Datzer’s previous best lap time, lapping at 2 minutes 16.911 seconds.
With just minutes of Q2 to run, Datzer piloting the Penz 13 BMW he will race at the TT, found an extra injection of speed to take pole position, registering a lap time of 2 minutes 16.490 seconds, which gave him an advantage of 0.421 over previous provisional pole sitter Holan.
Finishing third quickest behind Datzer, Holan was Finland’s top pure road racer Erno Kostamo (2.18.256).
Didier Grams (2.18.655), Laurent Hoffmann (2.18.963), Karel Pesek (2.20.126) placed respectively fourth, fifth, sixth fastest.
Finalising the top ten from second qualifying were Joey Den Besten (2.20.419), Virgil Amber Bloemhard (2.20.471), Tomas Toth (2.20.636) and Marcel Elsner (2.21.063).
300 Curves of Gustav Havel – second qualifying results per class, read as follows:
125 Sports Production:
1st – Ivo Dolezal – 2.43.970
2nd – Michal Vecko – 2.45.110
3rd – Lukas Fikker – 2.45.289
4th – Pavel Nechanicky – 2.45.289
5th – Marek Zima – 2.47.048
6th – Ondrej Mraz – 2.47.127
7th – Jakub Rolf – 2.47.197
8th – Petr Endrst – 2.47.726
9th – Petr Eadek – 2.48.030
10th – Josef Svoboda – 2.49.251
11th – Zbynik Novak – 2.49.675
12th – Pavel Cerovsky – 2.50.843
13th – Matij Blazek – 2.51.145
14th – Jiri Burza – 2.51.896
15th – Matyas Kapral – 2.53.605
125 Grand Prix:
1st – Patrik Kolar – 2.33.447
2nd – Christopher Eder – 2.34.258
3rd – Oldrich Podlipny – 2.37.254
4th – Chris Meyer – 2.40.367
5th – Radim Daniel – 2.42.053
6th – Rolf Blatter – 2.42.326
7th – Martin Krtieka – 2.46.790
8th – Tomas Karafiat – 2.48.927
9th – Anders Richnau – 2.50.183
250 Open:
1st – Johannes Kehrer – 2.42.059
2nd – Marek Stibor – 2.43.096
3rd – Tomas Fichna – 2.44.267
4th – Karel Kalina – 2.46.064
5th – Jiri Grech – 2.54.825
6th – Petr Mikl – 2.56.138
Supersport 300:
1st – Radek Lamich – 2.38.080
2nd – Jiri Subr – 2.46.058
3rd – Jan Volak – 2.51.826
4th – Zdenik Sedlak – 2.59.685
5th – Milan Bubenik – 3.10.736
Supersport:
1st – Petr Najman – 2.18.675
2nd – Marek Cerveny – 2.20.122
3rd – Kamil Holan – 2.20.703
4th – Michal Dokoupil – 2.21.836
5th – Thomas Walther – 2.22.231
6th – Karel Brandtner – 2.23.099
7th – Tomas Toth – 2.23.133
8th – Max Gaube – 2.24.059
9th – Martin Hulin – 2.24.092
10th – Sebastian Frotscher – 2.25.531
11th – Miroslav Sloboda – 2.25.660
12th – David Hanzalik – 2.25.709
13th – Jorn Hamberg – 2.25.946
14th – Frantisek Loueka – 2.26.643
15th – Robert Rohde – 2.29.750
Super Twins:
1st – Jan Markalous – 2.30.168
2nd – Ondrej Mraz – 2.30.785
3rd – Miroslav Sloboda – 2.31.835
4th – Dieter Vervloessen – 2.33.738
5th – Jan Nehasil – 2.34.043
6th – Daniel Chovanec – 2.34.145
7th – Stefan Holz – 2.34.440
8th – Wayne Bourgeais – 2.34.567
9th – Matous Ondrusz – 2.34.949
10th – David Kuzela – 2.35.592
11th – Josef Klusaeek – 2.35.865
12th – Vojta Hanousek – 2.36.594
13th – Michal Bystrican – 2.37.085
14th – Lukas Walter – 2.37.111
15th – Ondrej Bulvas – 2.38.899
Supersport 400:
1st – Dan Vyslouzil – 2.32.405
2nd – Petr Plichta – 2.34.047
3rd – Daniel Chovanec – 2.37.591
4th – Patrik Horak – 2.38.270
5th – Milan Hanzalik – 2.39.415
6th – Ludovit Krusina – 2.39.455
7th – Lukas Walter – 2.43.011
8th – Jiri Krutina – 2.46.565
9th – Miroslav Medek – 2.47.890
10th – Alexandr Vyslouzil – 2.48.292
11th – Roman Prochazka – 2.48.902
12th – Martin Hajek – 2.49.305
13th – Martin Baea – 2.49.749
14th – Vladimir Jilek – 2.52.535
15th – Karel Loeffler – 2.53.903
Supermono
1st – Petr Najman – 2.27.600
2nd – Frantisek Loueka – 2.33.094
3rd – Ivo Ladde – 2.33.310
4th – David Rezac – 2.33.385
5th – Libor Kamenicky – 2.37.268
6th – Ladislav Vojtko – 2.37.277
7th – Daniel Zoernweg – 2.37.583
8th – Pavel Janeik – 2.39.047
9th – Marek Nimeeek – 2.39.956
10th – Mario Wilhelm – 2.41.738
11th – Vaclav Jakl – 2.42.532
12th – Petr Kovar – 2.45.076
13th – Jan Huk – 2.49.053
14th – Libor Machao – 2.49.920
15th – Lubos Jelinek – 2.51.009
Superbike:
1st – David Datzer – 2.16.490
2nd – Kamil Holan – 2.16.911
3rd – Erno Kostamo – 2.18.256
4th – Didier Grams – 2.18.655
5th – Laurent Hoffmann – 2.18.963
6th – Karel Pesek – 2.20.126
7th – Joey Den Besten – 2.20.419
8th – Virgil Amber Bloemhard – 2.20.471
9th – Tomas Toth – 2.20.636
10th – Marcel Elsner – 2.21.063
11th – David Hanzalik – 2.21.352
12th – Johannes Schwimmbeck – 2.22.713
13th – Jiri Petrla – 2.23.419
14th – Patrik Hoff – 2.23.629
15th – Tomas Borovka – 2.24.008
Photo courtesy of Matthias Wolfstein
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
