Albert Arenas topped FIM Supersport World Championship Superpole qualifying Friday afternoon at Circuito de Jerez – Angel Nieto, in Spain. Riding his AS BLU CRU Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R9 on Pirelli control tires, Arenas lapped the 2.75-mile (4.42 km) course in 1:41.084 to top the field of 32 riders and earn pole position.
Jorge Navarro was the best of the rest with a 1:41.435 on his PTR Triumph Factory Racing Street Triple 765 RS, and Can Oncu earned the third and final spot on the front row with a lap time of 1:41.462 on his Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing YZR-R9.
Former MotoAmerica Supersport regular Valentin Debise was 12th with a 1:42.072 on his Eastroc Evan Bros ZXMOTO 820RR.
WSSP SUPERPOLE
More, from a press release issued by WSBK:
Arenas on pole at home to lead Navarro and Oncu; tech issues trouble Debise to P12. Four manufacturers in the top six at Jerez in the season’s final Superpole session.
The FIM Supersport World Championship rolled out on track to set their Race 1 grid for the final time in 2026 in their Tissot Superpole session. Albert Arenas (AS BLU CRU Racing Team) will lead the pack at lights out on Saturday after grabbing his third pole of the 2026 season. Behind the #75, replacement rider Jorge Navarro (PTR Triumph Factory Racing) and Can Oncu (Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing) will fill out the front row in the first of WorldSSP’s final two races.
NAVARRO TO THE FRONT ROW IN HIS SECOND SUPERPOLE SESSION
On his fourth lap of the session, Arenas set a new lap record and later improved it to 1’41.084s, claiming the third pole position of his rookie season. Arenas’s countryman Navarro rides in place of Oli Bayliss (PTR Triumph Factory Racing), who is riding in BSB this weekend. He briefly led the session early on, fighting for P1 before crashing on Turn 6 with 30 minutes remaining. He dusted himself off and sent himself to P2, his time just three and a half tenths behind the 2026 WorldSSP Champion. Oncu briefly sat in pole position, but the Turk finished the session in third place for his seventh front row this season.
DOMI BACK IN BUSINESS LATE IN 2026
Picking up from his 2026 personal-best Superpole result last round of P8, Dominique Aegerter (Kawasaki WorldSSP Team) raised the bar again with a 1’41.476s to finish as the top Kawasaki rider in P4. Just under a tenth behind his two-time WorldSSP Champion teammate, Jeremy Alcoba is looking to close out 2026 with the same strong pace he’s shown over the last few rounds and will start from P5 on Saturday. Italian rider Mattia Casadei (D34G WorldSSP Racing Team) took pole at Jerez in 2025 and P6 on Friday in 2026, arriving as his best result of the season with a 1’41.626s time.
BOOTH-AMOS TO LEAD THE THIRD ROW
Tom Booth-Amos (PTR Triumph Factory Racing) climbed into contention to sit P2 with 15 minutes to go, but as faster laps piled in, his 1’41.649 time saw him to a P7 finish. Matteo Ferrari (WRP Racing) will ride determined to safeguard his top-ten finish as he starts from P8 after a 1’41.709s effort. The Italian looked strong on Friday, logging laps up around the front throughout the session. Alessandro Zaccone will look to attack this weekend as he sits in P11, a point behind Lucas Mahias (GMT94 Yamaha). On Friday, the #16 finished P9 with a 1’41.974s time. Simon Jespersen (EAB Racing Team) snagged himself a late P10 with a time six hundredths behind Zaccone for his first Friday top ten since Most back in May. Despite riding 16 laps in the morning’s Free Practice, Jaume Masia (Orelac Racing VerdNatura) was ruled unfit on Friday before the Superpole session, meaning he won’t be able to dispute the third-place spot in the standings in the final round.
The top six from the WorldSSP Tissot Superpole session: full results here!
- Albert Arenas (AS BLU CRU Racing Team) 1’41.084s
- Jorge Navarro (Orelac Racing Verdnatura) +0.351s
- Can Oncu (Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing) +0.378s
- Dominique Aegerter (Kawasaki WorldSSP Team) +0.392s
- Jeremy Alcoba (Kawasaki WorldSSP Team) +0.478s
- Mattia Casadei (D34G WorldSSP Racing Team) +0.542s
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