GoldBet BMW rider Marco Melandri took his first race win of the season in the first race at Monza after a race long battle with Tom Sykes, Eugene Laverty and Sylvain Guintoli. Melandri was third at the end of the penultimate lap but passed both Sykes and Laverty to claim the win. Sykes took advantage of Melandri's last lap move ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- World Superbikes
- 12 May 2013
Motocard Kawasaki rider Tom Sykes will start tomorrow's WSB races from pole position after setting the fastest time ever around the Monza circuit with a best lap of 1:41.223. Current championship leader Sylvain Guintoli will start from third on the grid after snatching the final spot on the front row from Pata Honda rider Jonathan Rea in the final moments of ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- World Superbikes
- 11 May 2013
Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK) used his Friday lap time to enter Superpole as fastest rider after combined qualifying. Heavy overnight thunderstorms ensured that track conditions did not improve today, although the track was fully dry in almost all areas. Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda Word Superbike) remained second because of his Friday time and although Sylvain Guintoli (Aprilia Racing) ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- World Superbikes
- 11 May 2013
Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK) bounced back from the relative depression of Assen to an impressive fastest time in the Friday qualifying session at Monza. It was called a wet session but Melandri’s time of 1’42.883 was under the previous race lap record, if not quite at Cal Crutchlow's SBK track best. Melandri was 0.274 seconds ahead of a ...
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- World Superbikes
- 10 May 2013
Kevin Coghlan (DMC-Lorenzini Kawasaki) made the best of tricky damp track conditions at the fast Monza circuit to lead the field in the first timed Supersport World Championship qualifying session today (Friday). The Scot led a three rider Kawasaki surge to the top of the early rankings, with Andrea Antonelli (Goeleven) and Kenan Sofuoglu (Mahi Racing Team India) his closest ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- World Superbikes
- 10 May 2013
Britain’s Chaz Davies has undergone the best possible preparation for the fourth round of the World Superbike championship at Monza by completing time in BMW’s wind tunnel facility in Munich. Monza is a circuit where riders reach speeds of up to 210mph making aerodynamics vitally important. At 1.83m tall Davies is already well accomplished at getting tucked in having come ...
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- World Superbikes
- 02 May 2013
The second ‘big bike’ race from Assen saw Sykes looking to build on his emphatic first race win and to truly begin his assault on the championship that he so desperately desires. With the chasing riders having had time to tweak and adjust their bike settings – as well as their mental preparation and race plans – it was never ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- World Superbikes
- 28 April 2013
Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing Aprilia) surprised the leading pack at Assen by posting the fastest combined qualifying time in the only truly dry qualifying session of the weekend so far. Giugliano goes into Superpole 0.069 seconds ahead of Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) and his Bol d’Or winning KRT team-mate Loris Baz. Jonathan Rea did his best to raise the ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- World Superbikes
- 27 April 2013
Leon Haslam (Pata Honda World Superbike) suffered a left lower leg fracture (not right as we previously reported) after he crashed at turn seven in the first timed practice session at a wet Assen circuit. Initial tests at the local Assen hospital indicated that he had suffered breaks in his tibia and fibia quite close to the left knee, which will ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- World Superbikes
- 26 April 2013
Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) extended the advantage he already had in wet conditions in the first qualifying session at Assen to record a lap of 1’57.190 and push himself fully 1.634 seconds ahead of second place rider and championship leader, Sylvain Guintoli. The Frenchman’s fellow Aprilia Racing rider Eugene Laverty was third, one place ahead of Marco Melandri (BMW ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- World Superbikes
- 26 April 2013
