FIXI Crescent Suzuki are back to business at Nurburgring in Germany for the 10th round of the eni FIM Superbike World Championship after the summer lay-off and Leon Camier immediately began from where he left off at Silverstone. Camier produced consistently-fast laps during this afternoon's first qualifying session around the 5,137m German circuit, which saw him end the day in fourth position overall, just 0,308 off the provisional pole position. He knows where he needs to improve and will be looking to take steps tomorrow to close the gap on the very top places and push for honours on race-day. Jules Cluzel had a good start to his Superbike career at Nurburgring as he recorded a time less than a second off the best lap of the day. Cluzel used this morning's first session to re-acquaint himself with his Yoshimura-powered Suzuki GSX-R1000 and learn the different characteristics of the circuit compared to those of his first visit to the track on a 600cc machine last year. He made constant gains on his lap-times and will be looking to push-on even more tomorrow. Today's sessions were held in dry, but overcast conditions with track temperatures reaching 33°C. Chaz Davies on a BMW set the fastest time. FIXI Crescent Suzuki will have one more qualifying session tomorrow morning to confirm the places for the afternoon's Superpole, where the riders will battle for the best grid positions for Sunday's two 19-lap races. Leon Camier: "The bike has felt really good from the start of the day, but the first session didn't really do us justice because we had a bit of a chatter issue and this caused some grip problems - we're not sure what it was, but it didn't feel right. In the afternoon we put in some really good lap-times on used tyres and that put us up to third at the time and then we used a new tyre at the end and continued to go well with that. There are still a few places I haven't got quite right and there are a couple of areas where I think we can improve, especially in the first section, but the FIXI Crescent Suzuki GSX-R feels good and I think if we can make these improvements we can be quite strong." Jules Cluzel: "Today was a day to get my feeling back on the bike after a few weeks with no riding, except for on a bicycle, so I needed to get back up to speed. This morning was quite a good session, but I felt I struggled a bit this afternoon and had to push too hard to go fast, so I think there is something not right and we have to find out what it is so we can get the bike to do some fast lap-times. We will work hard tonight to improve the bike and make it better for me to ride. It was very different here today because last year I was on a Supersport and the corner speed, braking, the gearing, everything, is different. It looks like we will be ok though because we are only nine-tenths from first and I hope that tomorrow we can be closer to the top-five. " Paul Denning - Team Manager: "Following up from the great results at Silverstone, the three-week break has allowed us to catch-up with a lot of important work at Crescent as we prepare for a very busy run-in to the final part of the season. The slightly revised engine-spec is working well here at Nurburgring and it's great to have Yohei san from Yoshimura here to help us over the course of the weekend. "Leon looks like he's back to his confident best; he's getting everything out of the bike and is able to produce good lap-times out of new and used tyres. Jules made good progress at the end of this afternoon's qualifying session; it's always difficult for him coming to every track with no Superbike experience, so we expect him to continue to improve over the course of the weekend, but overall it's been a good first day." Nurburgring - eni FIM Superbike World Championship - Qualifying 1: 1. Chaz Davies (BMW) 1'55.034: 2. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki) +0.017: 3. Michel Fabrizio (Aprilia) +0.108: 4. Leon Camier (FIXI Crescent Suzuki) +0.308: 5. Jonathan Rea (Honda) +0.400. 11. Jules Cluzel (FIXI Crescent Suzuki) +0.956.