Xerox Ducati’s Michel Fabrizio headed the top of chart in today’s first day of testing at the Imola edging out Ben Spies by 0.098 seconds in the final minutes of the test. Spies putting in 62 laps against Fabrizio’s 48 laps.

Third went to Jonathan Rea and today’s surprise was BMW’s Ruben Xaus who was fourth. Evidently last week’s private test at Mugello has paid off for the Spanish rider while Troy Corser was left struggling in 18th.

Carlos Checa who led in this morning’s session, fell back to fifth.

Noriyuki Haga, who is still recovering from his injuries picked during the Donington round, will not be testing, but he did show up at the Imola track yesterday for a quick check up at the Clinica Mobile and confirmed that he will be back for the Brno round on July 26th.

Testing will resume tomorrow morning. Wednesday test times after the jump:

1 84 Fabrizio M. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1′49.164
2 19 Spies B. (USA) Yamaha YZF R1 1′49.262
3 65 Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1′49.684
4 111 Xaus R. (ESP) BMW S1000 RR 1′49.823
5 7 Checa C. (ESP) Honda CBR1000RR 1′49.842
6 67 Byrne S. (GBR) Ducati 1098R 1′50.305
7 66 Sykes T. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1′50.402
8 91 Haslam L. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1′50.586
9 57 Lanzi L. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1′50.797
10 71 Kagayama Y. (JPN) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′50.861
11 9 Kiyonari R. (JPN) Honda CBR1000RR 1′50.868
12 56 Nakano S. (JPN) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1′51.055
13 121 Hopkins J. (USA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′51.270
14 76 Neukirchner M. (GER) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′51.276
15 14 Lagrive M. (FRA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′51.339
16 53 Polita A. (ITA) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1′51.683
17 3 Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1′51.738
18 11 Corser T. (AUS) BMW S1000 RR 1′51.746
19 10 Nieto F. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 1′51.909
20 100 Tamada M. (JPN) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′52.008
21 23 Parkes B. (AUS) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′52.482
22 77 Iannuzzo V. (ITA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′53.535

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