Vainqueur haut la main dimanche matin au Misano World Circuit – Marco Simoncelli, Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) s’est de nouveau imposé dans la deuxième épreuve de la journée suite à une autre échappée en solitaire.
Le leader du Championnat du Monde eni FIM Superbike a cette fois-ci pu profiter de sa pole position pour immédiatement imprimer un rythme nettement supérieur à celui de ses concurrents et remportait sa sixième victoire de la saison.
Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) et Marco Melandri (Aprilia Racing Team) ont eux aussi obtenu les mêmes résultats que lors de la première course suite à ce que le Français ait résisté aux assauts répétés de l’Italien. Grâce à la deuxième place de Baz, Kawasaki remporte un double doublé à Misano, le troisième cette saison après ceux d’Aragón et de Donington, où Sykes s’était à chaque fois imposé devant Baz.
Visiblement gêné par un manque d’adhérence à l’arrière de son RSV4, Sylvain Guintoli (Aprilia Racing Team) n’a pas pu rester dans la lutte pour la seconde place et a fini quatrième.
Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) a réussi à prendre le dessus sur Toni Elías (Red Devils Roma) pour prendre la cinquième place tandis que les pilotes de Voltcom Crescent Suzuki, Eugene Laverty et Alex Lowes, finissaient respectivement septième et huitième.
Davide Giugliano (Ducati Superbike Team) a été pénalisé pour un départ anticipé et a dû se contenter de la neuvième place. Son coéquipier Chaz Davies a quant à lui chuté dans le cinquième tour, alors qu’il était cinquième.
David Salom (Kawasaki Racing Team) a une fois de plus remporté la victoire en catégorie EVO, devant un brillant Sylvain Barrier (BMW Motorrad Italia), onzième à l’arrivée après avoir terminé la première course en quinzième position. Fabien Foret (Mahi Racing Team India) n’avait pas pu prendre le départ de la course. Jérémy Guarnoni (MRS Kawasaki) a de son côté été contraint à abandonner à quatre tours de l’arrivée.
Christian Iddon (Team Bimota Alstare) et Leon Haslam (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) ont tous les deux chuté. Haslam a été le seul à pouvoir repartir et a fini en douzième position.
Avec désormais six victoires remportées en trois doublés, Sykes mène le classement avec respectivement 39 et 41 points d'avance sur Guintoli et Baz.
After winning the opening race of the day reigning champion Tom Sykes was victorious again in race two putting in a commanding performance aboard his Kawasaki Racing Team machine.
Behind Sykes there was an intense race long three rider fight for the final places on the podium with Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) eventually grabbing 2nd ahead of Marco Melandri (Aprilia Racing Team) after some hard but fair overtakes between the pair. Sylvain Guintoli (Aprilia Racing Team) having to be content with fourth.
An equally exciting scrap behind the top four saw Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) emerge 5th ahead of Toni Elias, Eugene Laverty (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) and Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) who was 8th.
Race 2 was over before it had begun for Davide Giugliano (Ducati Superbike Team). The Italian who had finished 8th earlier in the day took the lead into turn one but was judged to have moved before the lights went out and was given a jump start penalty. He would eventually finish 9th after serving a ride through the pits for his mistake. Ducati’s other rider Chaz Davies crashed out of fifth on the 5th lap.
In the EVO battle the accolade of being the best classified finisher went once again to David Salom (Kawasaki Racing Team) despite a valiant race from Sylvain Barrier (BMW Motorrad Italia) on his return to racing.
Christian Iddon (Team Bimota Alstare) highsided out of contention early on but was thankfully able to limp away. Fellow Brit Leon Haslam (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) crashed out of the fight for fifth. Unlike Iddon, Haslam did remount to finish 12th.
Behind Sykes there was an intense race long three rider fight for the final places on the podium with Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) eventually grabbing 2nd ahead of Marco Melandri (Aprilia Racing Team) after some hard but fair overtakes between the pair. Sylvain Guintoli (Aprilia Racing Team) having to be content with fourth.
An equally exciting scrap behind the top four saw Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) emerge 5th ahead of Toni Elias, Eugene Laverty (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) and Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) who was 8th.
Race 2 was over before it had begun for Davide Giugliano (Ducati Superbike Team). The Italian who had finished 8th earlier in the day took the lead into turn one but was judged to have moved before the lights went out and was given a jump start penalty. He would eventually finish 9th after serving a ride through the pits for his mistake. Ducati’s other rider Chaz Davies crashed out of fifth on the 5th lap.
In the EVO battle the accolade of being the best classified finisher went once again to David Salom (Kawasaki Racing Team) despite a valiant race from Sylvain Barrier (BMW Motorrad Italia) on his return to racing.
Christian Iddon (Team Bimota Alstare) highsided out of contention early on but was thankfully able to limp away. Fellow Brit Leon Haslam (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) crashed out of the fight for fifth. Unlike Iddon, Haslam did remount to finish 12th.
