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Australian World Superbike Results: Round 1, Race 2 from Phillip Island

Screen shot 2010 02 28 at 11 thumb.12.45 AM Australian World Superbike Results: Round 1, Race 2 from Phillip IslandTeam Althea Ducati rider, Carlos Checa, showed that a privateer team can still win in the World Superbike Championship as he took victory in the 2nd race following the factory domination in the first race of the opening round of the series at Phillip Island, Australia.

Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati) won a thrilling race two at Phillip Island, by only 0.307 seconds from first race winner, Leon Haslam, whom he passed on the final lap at MG hairpin. Third went to Michel Fabrizio, but a great ride from new SBK rider Sylvain Guintoli put him fourth on his Suzuki Alstare machine in only his fourth ever SBK event. Noriyuki Haga was fifth, fading in the later part of the race no doubt as a consequence of his massive morning warmup crash.

Carlos Checa 1st:- “The plan was to start the second race well and we chose a softer tyre. We changed the bike and we improved in the braking points, so I could overtake people. When you are close to four other riders it is not easy to overtake and make it permanent but I passed in the right time and at the right places. This was one of the best races in my life, so thanks to my new team.”

Leon Haslam 2nd:- “I had a few laps behind Sylvain my team-mate and in some corners I could not stay with him given the grip he had out of the corners. But I got the lead again and it was all going to plan until Carlos managed to come along and nip up the inside to win.”

Michel Fabrizio 3rd:- “We didn’t make any changes to the bike between race one and race two. I think it would have been very difficult for me to win, but if Carlos had not been in the mix I may have been able to push in the last three or four laps. I was having some problems by that time so it was very difficult to try and win.”

link: World SBK.com

Australian World Superbike Results from Race 2 1 7 Checa C. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 34’16.428 (171,192 kph) 2 91 Haslam L. (GBR) Suzuki GSX-R1000 0.307 3 84 Fabrizio M. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 0.434 4 50 Guintoli S. (FRA) Suzuki GSX-R1000 0.837 5 41 Haga N. (JPN) Ducati 1098R 3.453 6 65 Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 11.530 7 11 Corser T. (AUS) BMW S1000 RR 12.026 8 3 Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 1000 F. 13.068 9 35 Crutchlow C. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 14.401 10 52 Toseland J. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 14.707 11 2 Camier L. (GBR) Aprilia RSV4 1000 F. 14.743 12 67 Byrne S. (GBR) Ducati 1098R 14.851 13 57 Lanzi L. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 15.143 14 25 Brookes J. (AUS) Honda CBR1000RR 30.947 15 88 Pitt A. (AUS) BMW S1000 RR 41.855 16 76 Neukirchner M. (GER) Honda CBR1000RR 48.844 17 31 Iannuzzo V. (ITA) Honda CBR1000RR 1’06.866 18 95 Hayden R. (USA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1’07.751 RET 15 Baiocco M. (ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R RET 66 Sykes T. (GBR) Kawasaki ZX 10R RET 77 Vermeulen C. (AUS) Kawasaki ZX 10R RET 96 Smrz J. (CZE) Ducati 1098R

After the first round, Leon Haslam leads the series with 45 points from Michel Fabrizio with 36, Carlos Checa on 34 and Noriyuki Haga on 27. The next round is at Portimao, Portugal on March 28th.


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