BMW's Leon Haslam qualified in a provisional 13th place, on the fourth row of the grid, in Friday's opening qualifying session for Sunday's 10th round of the World Superbike Championship at Silverstone, GB.
Leon Haslam:
Fastest lap - Free Practice: 2m 08.047s - 9th / Fastest lap - Qualifying Practice 1: 2m 07.401s - 13th;
“For us today was all about working on the set-up rather than trying to do fast lap times. Right now we are not too worried and just working setting up the RR for this track.
"The weather conditions were difficult. You always have in the back of your mind that it might rain and this morning we did just three laps in the dry and a couple in the rain so it was a kind of wasted session.
"This afternoon it stayed dry but during the first part of the session there were wet patches so it was difficult to do a full dry set-up but we made some good progress and I am positive for the rest of the weekend.”
