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Castrol backed Hannspree Ten Kate Honda’s Jonathan Rea won the second of two eighth round World Superbike championship races at the 4.2km Misano circuit in Italy on Sunday 21 June – his first win in his debut season on the CBR1000RR machine!
In race one the 22 year old’s machine developed a fuel problem and he was given a ride back to the pits by his team-mate, Ryuichi Kiyonari. However, both riders were given a ride-through penalty for contravening regulations, a punishment compounded by Rea being denied access to the grid on his spare bike. He was forced to start the warm-up lap from the pit lane, and the race from the back of the grid.

Rea got a scorching start and was in tenth place by the end of lap one, despite a clash with Kiyonari which finished the Japanese rider’s race through a broken gear shift and left a hole in Rea’s right foot from his team-mate’s footpeg. He moved up to sixth place before pitting for his ride-through penalty. With the track then drying, riders began coming into pit lane to change to dry tyres, Rea changing on lap twelve before setting a succession of fastest laps and finishing in an impressive seventh place.

With the circuit now dry, Rea’s performance in race two was even more impressive! Starting from second place on the grid, Rea slipped past Noriyuki Haga for the lead on lap four. Haga and his Ducati team-mate, Michel Fabrizio, each took turns at the front later in the race, but Rea dived past the Italian early in the final lap and held him at bay to take a stunning victory.

Rea’s Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team-mate, Carlos Checa, took eleventh place in the rain affected first outing and posted an impressive fifth place in race two, after chasing Rea and the two Ducatis for much of the race.

Jonathan Rea says: "I just want to thank the whole crew and the Andreani group for working so hard to help make this happen. It really bodes well for us all for the rest of the season. We knew we had the pace this weekend but race one was a pretty bad situation. I needed to start with scrubbed tyres in the wet but the problem on the sighting lap finished that plan. With the penalties and brand new tyres and having destroyed my footrest and rear brake in the crash with Kiyo, it was difficult, so seventh was about as good as we could have hoped for. Race two was great and, as soon as I knew I had the pace to match the two Ducatis I was comfortable. I tried a few different lines in the closing laps to probe and find the best way through. When I got past Fabrizio, it was pretty straightforward. It’s really nice to win here in Italy, we’ve come on leaps and bounds recently and hopefully we can fight at the front in every race!"

Ronald ten Kate – team manager adds: "It’s been a very up and down day and a long road to success this season, with some difficult development steps with the CBR1000RR. Although we still have a few more plans and ideas that we want to try, Jonathan’s win today was a major breakthrough. I’d like to thank him and the other riders, the whole crew and Honda for staying loyal to us, and a special thanks to Andreani Group for all their hard work this week. Although the championship may be out of our reach this season, our intentions for the rest of the year are quite clear – winning"
Rea now sits in fourth position in the championship, 32 points clear of fifth place with team mates Checa and Kiyonari in eighth and tenth place respectively.

Source: Castrol

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hirenmistry

Looks good, sounds good! Hope that Elbows is successful in MotoGP, would be shame to see him just making up the numbers.

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suren

HAgabot looks very slow ! And who s this guy ?

World Superbike Donington Qualifying -

1. Fabrizio M. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'30.775
2. Haslam L. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.191
3. Spies B. (USA) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.294
4. Lavilla G. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 1'31.401
5. Byrne S. (GBR) Ducati 1098R 1'31.436
6. Camier L. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.454
7. Smrz J. (CZE) Ducati 1098R 1'31.584
8. Lanzi L. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'31.705
9. Checa C. (ESP) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.736
10. Haga N. (JPN) Ducati 1098R 1'31.760
11. Sykes T. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.838
12. Ellison J. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.890
13. Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'31.913
14. Hopkins J. (USA) Honda CBR1000RR 1'32.007
15. Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'32.103
16. Kagayama Y. (JPN) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1'32.139

soulstation

Hello Motorsport fans: i missed out on all the fun. hello to suren... sorry bro, i was in goa for a holiday.

a true race fan, i din't miss the last race at all. Touched in GOA on a sunday afternoon during lunch. went scouting to all the places looking for a resort that broadcast ZeeSports and Star Sports on their Tele. just so i could kick start my trip watching WSBK,WSS and F1.

Donigton looks set to be a Royal Rumble with all the Brits going headstrong for glorly in Homeland. Looks like the championship contenders will be playing second flute.

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suren

@soul ! Welcome back oldie ! how may litres of Feni did u dump in ?

And guys suddenly someone has tuned the Hagabot ! It is flying in the second qualifying !

1 84 Fabrizio M. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'30.493
2 41 Haga N. (JPN) Ducati 1098R 1'30.671
3 19 Spies B. (USA) Yamaha YZF R1 1'30.695
4 65 Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'30.782
5 91 Haslam L. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'30.803
6 66 Sykes T. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'30.957
7 57 Lanzi L. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'30.961
8 36 Lavilla G. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 1'31.028
9 3 Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'31.243
10 67 Byrne S. (GBR) Ducati 1098R 1'31.311
11 111 Xaus R. (ESP) BMW S1000 RR 1'31.352
12 121 Hopkins J. (USA) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.382
13 22 Camier L. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.454
14 56 Nakano S. (JPN) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'31.457
15 27 Ellison J. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.476

soulstation

dude... aprilia on the front row.... QUICK hiten throw in some bottles of beer and wine here.. your treating us.

talk about putting your bets at Donigton. elbows does it again. looks like its going to be a hell of a GOOD race.

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31 riders qualify. i hope it rains

1. Ben Spies USA Yamaha WSB YZF R1 1min 29.846s
2. Max Biaggi ITA Aprilia Racing RSV-4 1min 30.080s
3. Shane Byrne GBR Sterilgarda Ducati 1098R 1min 30.535s
4. Shinya Nakano JPN Aprilia Racing RSV-4 1min 30.671s
5. Michel Fabrizio ITA Ducati Xerox 1098R 1min 30.734s
6. Noriyuki Haga JPN Ducati Xerox 1098R 1min 31.023s
7. Carlos Checa ESP HANNspree Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR 1min 31.342s
8. Jakub Smrz CZE Guandalini Racing Ducati 1098R 1min 34.797s

9. Leon Haslam GBR Stiggy Motorsport Honda CBR1000RR 1min 30.159s
10. Tom Sykes GBR Yamaha WSB YZF R1 1min 30.229s
11. John Hopkins USA Stiggy Motorsport Honda CBR1000RR 1min 30.272s
12. Jonathan Rea GBR HANNspree Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR 1min 30.387s
13. Gregorio Lavilla ESP Guandalini Racing Ducati 1098R 1min 30.612s
14. James Ellison GBR Airwaves Yamaha YZF-R1 1min 0.816s
15. Troy Corser AUS BMW Motorrad S1000RR 1min 30.916s
16. Ruben Xaus ESP BMW Motorrad S1000RR 1min 31.120s

17. Leon Camier GBR Airwaves Yamaha YZF-R1 1min 31.176s
18. Yukio Kagayama JPN Alstare Suzuki GSX-R 1000K9 1min 31.215s
19. Lorenzo Lanzi ITA DFX Corse Ducati 1098R 1min 31.260s
20. Ryuichi Kiyonari JPN Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR 1min 31.217s

Positions 21 to 31 decided in Q2

21. Luca Scassa ITA Team Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1min 31.874s
22. Broc Parkes AUS Kawasaki SRT ZX-0R 1min 31.887s
23. David Salom ESP Team Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1min 32.183s
24. Matthieu Lagrive FRA HANNspree Althea Honda CBR1000RR 1min
32.243s
25. Jamie Hacking USA Kawasaki SRT ZX-10R 1min 32.245s
26. Simon Andrews GBR MSS Colchester Kawasaki ZX-10R 1min 32.343s
27. Alessandro Polita ITA Celani Suzuki GSX-R1000 1min 32.584s
28. Blake Young USA Alstare Suzuki GSX-R 1000K9 1min 32.735s
29. David Checa ESP Yamaha France GMT 94 1min 32.811s
30. Roland Resch AUT TKR Switzerland Suzuki GSX-R 1000K9 1min 33.384s
31. Vittorio Iannuzzo ITA SCI Honda CBR1000RR 1min 33.408s

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Now lets hope the Yamah team doesn't fcuk it up and last the race properly !!
Speis can't keep giving away points like that !!

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soulstation

Biaggi was soooooooooooo close.... oh my gosh. had me on the edge of my seat... i was hoping the aprilia would stick out its nose on the last lap. good race 1. bring on WSS and Race 2.

phew

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suren

And a veryyy good Superstock race ! Corti was amazing ! And here there seems to be loads of R1s this time !