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Ben Spies sits on top of the leader board at today’s qualifying at Phillip Island, and is the first winner of World Superbike’s new Superpole system. Quashing any comments from naysayers who still harbored considerable doubts about Yamaha’s recruit from the AMA, Spies showed that he is the real deal in WSBK and could be one of the riders to watch in the series. Tomorrow, he gets two chances to show what he can do it in the race. Max Biaggi follows the American rookie with a strong showing for Aprilia’s WSBK comeback, which has on exactly how similar it is to the production version of the RSV4. Continue reading for times from qualifying.

 

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The first batch of testing has concluded at Phillip Island. As before, Aprilia stands on top of the unofficial podium, but this time the fastest lap of the day was posted by The Emperor himself, Max Biaggi. Following behind him, by just a hundreth of a second, was Ducati’s Regis Laconi. Topping the World Supersport bikes was a former Kawasaki rider Anthony West, who repeated his performance from yesterday by setting the fastest lap of the day on his Stiggy Motorsports Honda.

 

The Aprilia RSV4 seems to be all the news today, first we leaked you the price, and now we can show you what Max Biaggi’s World Superbike trim will look like. The bike has Max’s classic “3” logo, we imagine the final version will have a couple other stickers as well, unless The Emperor is sponsoring his racing efforts these days.

Source: motoblog.it via MCN

Max, with your new shiny bike, you’ll be the prettiest boy at the track this weekend.