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Fourth for Roberts in Misano
6 Days ago
Despite a serious groin injury, which required five stitches, Brendan Roberts fought through the pain barrier to finish fourth in the FIM 1000 Superstock Cup round at Misano at the weekend. The young Australian crashed heavily during free practice on Friday morning and sustained injuries, which required stitches on Saturday evening. Not letting this trouble him too much Roberts still managed to qualify in fourth position on the grid for the 14-lap race. Using the same gearing he used at Nurbergring a couple of weeks ago Roberts was unable to get the Ducati 1098 R off the line and fell back to seventh place after the opening lap. Avoiding the melee of first lap incidents he soon got his head down and was working his way back through the field. Eager to narrow the margin between him and Championship leader Simeon, who was also riding injured. Roberts knew that he had to finish ahead of his nearest rival.
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Bridewell Gets Eighth in Italy
01 July 2008
After a tentative return from injury at the previous round of the Suzuki GSX-R 750 European Cup in Germany two weeks ago, British teenager Tommy Bridewell defied the heat to record a battling eighth place finish at Misano last weekend. After some technical problems in qualifying saw him languishing down in 14th place on the grid, the 18 year old from Etchilhampton near Devizes in Wiltshire battled through the field after breaking his leg in April and despite a couple of minor errors, eventually took a fine top eight finish at the Italian circuit.
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Top Eight for Lavilla at Misano
01 July 2008
Paul Bird Motorsport rider Gregorio Lavilla bounced back to form with a superb eighth place finish in the opening leg of today's Hannspree World Superbike Championship held in the heat of the Italian Adriatic coast at Misano. Aboard the Vent Axia VK Honda, qualifying had not gone according to plan for the team as Lavilla missed out on Superpole and was placed 19th on the grid, making for a fifth row start but in the opening leg, the Spaniard got a good start and pushed hard into the first three corners to come out of the first lap in 13th position.
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An Unlucky Day for Kawasaki at Misano
01 July 2008
After sparkling performances in some periods of qualifying, Makoto Tamada and Régis Laconi had a disappointing raceday on their Ninja ZX-10R machines. Neither rider managed to finish a race, as each crashed out in race one and then experienced technical problems in race two, one of which caused Tamada to fall again at the entrance to the first chicane. The team now looks to the next round at Brno to get back to points scoring form, particularly as each rider is happy with the latest chassis developments. They will have a further chance to test them at Mugello, on July 2 and 3, before they head to Brno.
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Walker Fights Hard to Go 12th in Misano
01 July 2008
Chris Walker made a vast improvement on his qualifying performance to finish 12th in the San Marino WSS race on his GIL Kawasaki, pushing hard throughout to make up for a 24th grid placing. Katsuaki Fujiwara had an unsatisfactory raceday, finishing his race on lap ten, while sitting 21st at the time. His machine had developed a technical problem and he had to pit before retiring. Even in the high temperatures of 33°C that afflicted the race, Waker kept a strong pace to the end, and was rewarded by more points and retention of his overall 11th place in the championship.
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Difficult Race's in Misano for HANNspree SBK Team
01 July 2008
The hard conditions at Misano continued for the HANNspree Ten Kate Honda Superbike team today where, after two days of poor qualifying, the team still struggled to optimise the performance of the Honda CBR1000RR and find the right pace in the Superbike races. Carlos Checa qualified eleventh on the grid after issues with the grip of his bike played havoc throughout the qualifying session. His qualifying spot put him in a difficult position to make passes on his frontrunners in the strong field. However, some crashes at the front enabled Checa to make up some ground and he finished the first race in fifth position.
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Hot Superstock Race for Team KTM Maehr in Misano
01 July 2008
The fifth from ten races in the FIM Superstock 1000 World Cup ended better than the twenty-fifth place than the 14-lap reflected for the young Austrian René Maehr and his two cylinder KTM 1190 RC 8. Maehr had already found a good basic chassis setup for his KTM in the first training session on the 4.18 km long, very curvy racing circuit on the Adriatic, even in temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius. And in the hot Italian summer temperatures the 21-year-old student was able to reduce his training time in the decisive last session on Saturday by a second. With the real aim of gathering important experience with the newly launched RC8 in very tough racing conditions, Maehr went into the heat of the Superstock battle at twenty eighth of 40 riders.
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Double Podium for Bayliss in Extremely Hot Conditions
01 July 2008
Both Race one and two at the Misano World Circuito saw a hard fought battle between several of the Ducatis, both factory and privateer, the two factory Yamahas and the Suzuki of Neukirchner, with Ducati Xerox factory rider Troy Bayliss eventually taking two third places on the podium. Bayliss and Corser dominated the first half of Race 1 until Neukirchner managed caught them both to ultimate pass and take the win ahead of the two Australians. A run-in during lap eleven of the same race between Fabrizio and Max Biaggi saw the premature end to Fabrizio's race, an unfortunate finish after making such a strong start.
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Broken Collarbone Fails to Stop Xavi
01 July 2008
Not even a broken left collarbone could deter Team Alstare Suzuki rider Xavi Simeon’s title challenge in the fourth round of the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup at Misano today. The young Belgian was obviously in pain during the 14-lap race, but somehow he managed to take a superb fifth place and maintain his position at the top of the points standings. Alessandro Polita (Ducati) won the race, with Michele Pirro (Yamaha) second and Maxime Berger (Honda) third.
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Positive Start for Triumph in Misano
01 July 2008
The renowed circuit of Misano, now 4226 meters long and transformed in a true cauldron thanks the very hot temperature of the wonderful summer sun that it is enjoying, will host the World Supersport circus for their seventh round of the Championship this Sunday.
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Corser on Podium in San Marino
01 July 2008
Pole position starter Troy Corser (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team) looked set for his first win of the 2008 season on two occasions at Misano but he had to settle for a second in race one and a good points score of fifth in race two after running off track and ultimately avoiding a crash. He also set a new lap record, 1'37.580, on lap two of race two, which he led for 10 laps. Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team) struggled hard in qualifying and the first race, finding himself only 19th after one lap. He recovered to gain six points for tenth. In race two Haga felt he had a better technical package and he made real progress from his grid position of 14th, to hold off his team-mate by just over a second.
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Foret Fights Hard for Fourth
30 June 2008
Despite finishing the first lap in 15th position, after being run wide in the first chicane by another rider, Fabien Foret (Yamaha World Supersport Team) battled back to finish fourth and retain his second place in the championship after seven rounds. Broc Parkes looked like a sure podium finisher until he lost the front end on lap nine of the Misano World Supersport race, dropping from second to 17th, before re-starting his stricken machine. Each of the two top Yamaha riders had started from the front row, but in a race littered with crashes and retirements, and conducted in temperatures of 33°C, few pre-race plans came to a satisfactory climax in the Misano cauldron.
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Pirro Pecond at Misano
30 June 2008
Michele Pirro (Yamaha Lorenzini by Leoni) remains the top Yamaha YZF-R1 rider in the championship after a fine second place at his home round in Misano. He sits on 63 points, 21 points from leader Xavier Simeon. Race winner Alessandro Polita is only four points up on Pirro, who led the first lap and was always in contention for the podium places over all 14 laps. Claudio Corti (Yamaha Motor Italia Junior Team) was unable to match his set-up to the Misano circuit and thus finished 12th in the race, and is now 10th in the championship.
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Max Goes Into Second in the Championship
30 June 2008
Team Alstare Suzuki rider Max Neukirchner took a superb win in the first race at Misano today and seventh in race two, to move into second place in the championship behind Troy Bayliss (Ducati). After his tremendous performance in race one, when he charged from the third row of the grid to take the chequered flag, another good result was on the cards for race two. But the second race was red-flagged after one lap and Max, like most riders, changed his rear tyre. Despite the bike having the same set-up and the same type of tyre, Max had problems exiting the corners and lost time trying to catch the lead group. Nevertheless, he was happy to take his second ever World Superbike win today and leave Misano second in the championship.
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Pitt Dominates Misano race, Rea Claims Third
30 June 2008
HANNspree Ten Kate Honda rider Andrew Pitt collected another impressive win today at the World Superbike round at Misano today. After two successful days of qualifying Pitt was the man on a mission today and eager to turn his second place on the grid into a top spot on the podium. After a good start Pitt took the lead for the best part of the 22-lap race over rivals Parkes and Foret. In what looked like an easy race for the front runner, Pitt kept his rivals at distance and claimed his fourth Supersport victory of the season.
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Unlucky Day for Team Triumph – SC
30 June 2008
Actually bad day today at Misano circuit for the Team Triumph–SC. Nevertheless thing were running well in the first half race, with Garry McCoy in a great recovery after a quite bad start. Then the Aussie rejoined unhappy the pit lane when the top ten group was an easy goal. Garry is a bit disappointed for the final result of this unlucky race: “In the morning warm up we found a quite good set up that solved most of yesterday troubles, so I was confident in a good result, as well to start from the back of the grid couldn’t allow us to fight for the positions of excellence. The start made things more complicated, because I got pushed wide in the first corner and that put me way back in the order, just 23th at the end of the first lap. But the bike was performing very well and I started to recover positions and positions.
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Hard Work in the Heat
28 June 2008
Temperatures rose to 34C this afternoon at Misano circuit and Max, Fonsi and Yukio had to work hard in difficult conditions as they began finding good set-ups for their GSX-R1000 Suzukis. Maxi ended the fastest of the trio, in ninth place, with Fonsi eleventh and Yukio twentieth. Yukio’s was suffering from his injured left hand and there was some speculation about whether or not his it would be strong enough to ride, but the gritty Japanese rider is determined to be on the grid on raceday and today was just the start. Troy Bayliss (Ducati) ended with the day’s fastest lap, with Jakub Smrz (Ducati) second, Troy Corser (Yamaha) third and Max Biaggi (Ducati) fourth.
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Difficult First Day of Qualifying in Misano
28 June 2008
The first day of qualifying in Misano took place in hot weather conditions today. With the temperature rising to 34 degrees, the three men strong HANNspree Ten Kate Honda squad struggled to find the right pace for the Honda CBR1000RR Fireblades. Carlos Checa’s fastest lap of 1'38.189 in the first qualifying practice was 1.326s off the fastest time set by provisional pole sitter Troy Bayliss. After his strong performance in the USA round, Checa’s experienced difficulties with the set-up of his machine and used most of his 60-minute session to focus on finding the right grip for his Honda CBR1000RR. Chattering issues halted his performance throughout the session in which he was not able to find the pace and set some fast laps.
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Bayliss Tops Time Sheets in First Qualifying
28 June 2008
Misano (Republic of San Marino) Friday 27th June: with scorching track temperatures that rose as high as 53°C, the Ducati Xerox riders Troy Bayliss and Michel Fabrizio faced a very physical challenge during today's sessions at Misano. Already off to a flying start in this morning's free practice session, Troy Bayliss continued to make storming progress in first qualifying this afternoon, to conclude the session at the top of the time sheets with a fastest lap time of 1m36.8s. The only rider on track to lap in under 1m37s today, Bayliss set a new best lap at this "new" circuit (the track configuration having been recently modified).
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Supersport Team on Provisional Front Row at Misano
27 June 2008
The HANNspree Ten Kate Honda Supersport team started the first day of qualifying in Misano on the pace with both riders putting their Honda’s on the provisional front row for the race this weekend. Jonathan Rea successfully concluded his first ever appearance on the 4.226km long track by setting the third fastest time of 1'41.453 in the free practice session. He managed to improve his time in the afternoon’s qualifying practice with a best lap of 1'40.690 and secured the day’s fourth fastest time.
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