Chris Walker and his team-mate
Fonsi Nieto both on the Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse mahcines are separated by a mere three points, with Walker in ninth place and Nieto just inside the top ten. A superb fourth place at Misano is hoped to be conjured into a podium finish of some colour at Brno by Walker, with Nieto also looking for his first podium on the Kawasaki. Third rider in the PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse team,
Regis Laconi, missed out on the recent Lausitz tests, and is currently 13th, with a best single race finish of sixth, in race one at Misano.
Ahead of Laconi is a Japanese double act of Norick Abe withYamaha Motor France Ipone and Corser's Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra team-mate,
Yukio Kagayama. The top 15 is completed by Toseland's team-mate
Karl Muggeridge and Italian rider
Roberto Rolfo on the Ducati SC Caracchi.
No fewer than six wild cards are set to take on the world at Brno, adding to an already bursting grid of almost 30 regulars. They will be aiming to make life hard for the midfield, swapping international experience for intimate circuit knowledge.
Current Supersport championship leader Sebastien Charpentier on the Winston Ten Kate Honda is still some 30 points ahead of his closest competitor, despite missing the previous Misano round through injury. His still-healing pelvis and injured collarbone prevented him from attending the recent Lausitz tests, but the world from his camp is that he will be at Brno.
The Supersport season has already delivered two rookie race winners, with Monza victor Yoann Tiberio on his Megabike Honda now joined on a higher plateau of Supersport status by Massimo Roccoli with Yamaha Italia, winner of the Misano race. Charpentier has won every other race so far, and sits on 116 points, after only five points scoring races.
In Broc Parkes and Kevin Curtain both from the Yamaha Motor Germany team, Charpentier, and Charpentier's mercurial team-mate
Kenan Sofuoglu, Charpentier has contenders worthy of great respect, and each was in blistering form during the recent Supersport tests at Lausitz.
