By A fair chunk ahead pace wise in Q1, it was no surprise to see the leading lights in second IRRC Horice Supersport qualifying been Czech roads scene, tour-de-forces Marek Cerveny and Petr Najman.
Five times IRRC Champion Cerveny (WRL Wepol Racing Parts – Triumph) was first to lay the gauntlet down, ducking inside 2 minutes 16 seconds.
Najman (Laserscanning Europe by PSB Motorsport – Yamaha) quickly joined his IRRC Supersport title rival, in achieving this feat (2.15.938).
With sub four minutes of Q2 left, Najman went faster, circulating the 5.15 kilometres long Horice course in 2.15.714 seconds, giving him provisional pole by 0.157 of a second.
Q2 closing stages saw Najman and Cerveny, in close proximity on track, neither though could unlock a new best lap time.
Third quickest, Wolfgang ‘Wolfi’ Schuster (2.17.061 – Schuster Road Racing – Yamaha) was 1.347 adrift of outright qualifying conqueror Najman, 1.19 down on Horice wins record holder Cerveny.
Below half a second covered respective fourth-sixth quickest riders, Karel ‘Chupa’ Brandtner (2.18.560), Mauro Poncini (2.18.782) and twice TT victor, Team Schleizer Dreieck’s Gary ‘AKA Driver’ Johnson (2.18.859).
Matej Vit (2.19.467) attained the seventh rapidest time closely followed by Darryl Tweed (2.19.777 – Never Be Clever Racing – Yamaha).
The Supersport Q2 lead ten was completed by Performance Racing Achterhoek’s lead rider this weekend, following Adam McLean’s withdrawal, Ilja Caljouw (2.20.332) and Swedish talent Markus Karlsson (2.21.270).
IRRC Horice – Supersport Second Qualifying Result:
1 – Petr Najman – 2.15.714
2 – Marek Cerveny – 2.15.871
3 – Wolfgang Schuster – 2.17.061
4 – Karel Brandtner – 2.18.560
5 – Mauro Poncini – 2.18.782
6 – Gary Johnson – 2.18.859
7 – Matej Vit – 2.19.467
8 – Darryl Tweed – 2.19.777
9 – Ilja Caljouw – 2.20.332
10 – Markus Karlsson – 2.21.270
11 – Rico Vetter – 2.21.430
12 – Martin Hulin – 2.21.550
13 – Moritz Klaus – 2.22.593
14 – Ales Sykora – 2.23.493
15 – Sebastian Frotscher – 2.23.637
16 – Miroslav Sloboda – 2.24.645
17 – Daniel Chovanec – 2.24.896
18 – Zbynek Prochazka – 2.26.034
19 – Mathieu Rieder – 2.26.853
20 – Frantisek Loucka – 2.27.274
21 – Jonas Stracke – 2.27.400
22 – Maxim Zanaska – 2.27.409
23 – Gregory Botty – 2.27.650
24 – Mike Mace – 2.27.672
25 – David Brook – 2.27.687
26 – Ondrej Kubalek – 2.28.080
27 – Florian Glaushauser – 2.29.236
28 – Mike Ceuppens – 2.31.845
29 – Thierry Vanhollebeke – 2.34.058
30 – Alexandre Bigot – 2.38.435
31 – Rushab Shah – 2.38.860
32 – Jonathan Lesceux – 2.41.137
Photo credit: Jan Vavra
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
