It looks like the answer might be yes- but a qualified yes. Corser is in the hunt, but still a long way off from the Ducatis which are qualified 1&2 presently. From BMW-
BMW MOTORRAD MOTORSPORT – SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP – PHILLIP ISLAND, AUSTRALIA – QUALIFYING
02/27/2009
Lap times close on day one.
Munich. BMW Motorrad Motorsport riders Troy Corser and Ruben Xaus ended the first day of qualifying at Phillip Island with the sixteenth and twentieth fastest times respectively. But lap times are very close and Troy was only a second slower then today’s quickest rider, Jakub Smrz (Ducati), with Ruben just seven tenths of a second further behind. Since the test last weekend, some new parts have arrived for the team to evaluate and the work carried out in this area meant that neither Troy nor Ruben were able to chase any lap times.
Troy 1:33.377
Since the test last weekend we received some new parts to try out and today that’s what we did. The new parts affected the way the bike’s chassis worked, so we had to find out what was going, what we had to do and then try and do it. But, I think we did a lot of good work today and definitely got some info and ideas that we can work on tomorrow. Considering what we were doing today, I think that it’s pretty good to be only one second off the pace. All day, I was just working on evaluating the new stuff, improving the bike and not chasing any lap times. I had a little tip-off this afternoon when I lost the front end in Honda corner, but it was a very slow speed crash and I didn’t hurt myself at all.
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