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Yamaha Racing Team’s Daniel Falzon has edged out reigning champion Troy Herfoss (Penrite Honda Racing) for pole position at Sydney Motorsport Park’s seventh and final round of the 2019 Motul Pirelli Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK).

Falzon, out of the title fight, stole the all-important championship point for the top qualifying position from all of the contenders in the mix for the crown, which currently sees Herfoss, Wayne Maxwell (Team Suzuki Ecstar) and Mike Jones (DesmoSport Ducati) separated by 4.5 points heading into tomorrow’s pair of races.

Falzon’s 1m30.039s time granted him pole as track temperatures soared to 50-plus degrees, where he topped points leader Herfoss by a slender 0.031s – the number one recording a time of 1m30.070s.

Cru Halliday (Yamaha Racing Team) completes the front row in third after setting a 1m30.298s time, while Maxwell, Mark Chiodo (Penrite Honda Racing) and Bryan Staring (Kawasaki BCperformance) will start alongside each other on row two in positions four, five and six.

Jones qualified in an uncharacteristic seventh, followed by Josh Waters (Team Suzuki Ecstar), Glenn Allerton (Maxima BMW) – who advanced via Q1 – and Matt Walters (Kawasaki Connection).

Kawasaki-mounted Senna Agius emerged victorious in race one of the Supersport 300 category, comfortably defeating Max Stauffer (Yamaha) and pole-sitter Hunter Ford (Yamaha). Zac Levy (Yamaha) and Brandon Demmery (Yamaha) were fourth and fifth respectively.

Ford took out top honours in race one of the Yamaha R3 Cup ahead of Demmery and John Lytras (Yamaha), while the opening encounter of the Oceania Junior Cup saw Tom Drane (Yamaha) clinch victory over Marianos Nikolis (Yamaha) and Archie McDonald (Yamaha).

Detailed results