"IT was all right. I made a few mistakes and ran wide in a few places."

That was the level of enthusiasm that Carl Fogarty managed to reach about a Superpole lap that left the rest of Misano breathless.

The first 14 riders had been dealing in the odd 20th of a second before Fogarty set off to test Akira Yanagawa's target of 1min 34.411secs.

Fogarty had been fractionally faster in the two timed sessions of Friday and Saturday.

But this was for real and Fogarty hacked more than two fifths off that time in a lap bristling with raw aggression.

Only Troy Corser remained a threat to the new target of 1min 33.995 secs, but the Aussie could not come within a fifth of a second of Fogarty's time.

Fogarty even managed to notch the joint fastest speed, with Castrol Honda's Colin Edwards - 275.510 kmph on the Curve Veloce.

Fogarty has clinched pole position for three of the seven rounds, with three second places and just Monza a blot on his copybook.

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