After a tight battle between Thomas Chareyre and Mauno Hermunen for being at the top of today's time practice in the unique tarmac track of Pleven, the French was finally the fastest. Gozzini and Thierry Van Den Bosch finished third and fourth respectively and will complete the top four riders who will take part in tomorrow's Superpole.

Home rider Angel Karanyotov imposed a blistering rhythm in the UEM Open class time practice and current red plate holder Uros Nastran could just be second almost a second behind the Bulgarian. 2010 UEM S3 Champion Lukas Höllbacher is not present this weekend in Bulgaria and local rider Antonio Todorov was the fastest in the S3 class.

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747 Motorsport TM Racing Factory's Thomas Chareyre clinched the best result in today's time practice just seven minutes before the session finished. The French exchanged the top position of the classification with Hermunen several times, but Thomas Chareyre managed to be six hundredths of a second fastest than the Finnish. Tomorrow the French will try to get his third Superpole of the season and get the red plate back from his team mate Gozzini.

Husqvarna CH Racing's Hermunen, who suffered a small crash during the free practice, managed to lead the time session in several occasions but he had to finally settle for the second best lap time. Hermunen is fifth in the FIM SuperMoto World Championship but he is confident that he can be among the top three riders, so tomorrow is one of his last chances to get a good result and climb some positions in the point standings.

Current red plate holder Gozzini had a puncture on his bike at the very beginning of the time practice but he managed to obtain the third best result just half of a second behind his team mate Thomas Chareyre. 747 Motorsport TM Racing Factory's Gozzini is leading the Championship with five points advantage over Thomas Chareyre, so he will try to get the Superpole tomorrow to have the best position in the starting grid and keep his leadership until the last Grand Prix in Salou.

Fourth was PMR H2O Aprilia Racing's Van Den Bosch, who had some problems with the settings of the bike, but he will be also fighting for the Superpole together with Thomas Chareyre, Hermunen and Gozzini. VDB is conscious that the track will not benefit his performance, but he is positive to keep his third position in the Championship.

Husqvarna CH Racing's Adrien Chareyre rode almost one second slower than his brother Thomas Chareyre and finished in fifth position. Adrien struggled with the settings of his bike in the last Grand Prix in Triscina, Sicily, but he seems ready to clinch a good result in tomorrow's races and improve his seventh position in the Championship.

Lazzarini is still recovering from his pulmonary bronchitis and could only finished sixth, followed by the two home riders Tonchev and Georgiev.

Hiemer is still having some difficulties in having his speed and rhythm back on his KTM machine and could only finish eleventh in today's time practice.

Occhini, who finished third overall in the Sicilian Grand Prix, was just fourteenth.

S1 Qualifying top ten: 1. Thomas Chareyre (FRA, TM), 1:24.069; 2. Mauno Hermunen (FIN, Husqvarna), +0:00.061; 3. Davide Gozzini (ITA, TM), +0:00.456; 4. Thierry van den Bosch (FRA, Aprilia), +0:00.885; 5. Adrien Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), +0:00.924; 6. Ivan Lazzarini (ITA, Honda), +0:01.022; 7. Rosen Tonchev (BUL, KTM), +0:01.254; 8. Alexander Georgiev (BUL, KTM), +0:01.453; 9. Giovanni Bussei (ITA, Honda), +0:01.504; 10. Elia Sammartin (ITA, Honda), +0:01.560;

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