Italian machinery ruled again in race 2 at Imola. This time it was a Ducati Xerox 1 -2 with Michel Fabrizio who took first place followed by team mate Noriyuki Haga and wildcard Marco Simoncelli on the Aprilia RSV4 Factory, took third.

Noriyuki Haga took the lead early on in the race, ahead of Fabrizio and Max Biaggi, but Haga was unable to pull away from Fabrizio, who got past Haga on lap 13, pulled ahead and finished with a confortable 3.5s lead.

Marco Simoncelli got a better start this time and battled throught the field, passing Shane Byrne, Ben Spies and after an aggressive move on Max Biaggi at the Variante Bassa ,that made the Roman run wide into the path of Spies, forcing him off onto the gravel trap, took third, leaving Biaggi in fourth place.

Spies re-entered behind Byrne and was able to pass him to take fifth place, one of his worse finishes this year.

Jonathan Rea took several visits in the gravel trap, but finished in sixth passing Byrne in the final laps. Leon Haslam rode to eighth, Jakub Smrz, 9th and Carlos Checa 10th.

Haga has now regained the leadership of the championship with three point advantage and the next race will be a Magny-Cours next week.

Imola Race 2 Results:

1 84 Fabrizio M. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 38′23.143 (162,023 kph)
2 41 Haga N. (JPN) Ducati 1098R 3.592
3 58 Simoncelli M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 6.510
4 3 Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 7.445
5 19 Spies B. (USA) Yamaha YZF R1 14.678
6 65 Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 16.396
7 67 Byrne S. (GBR) Ducati 1098R 17.110
8 91 Haslam L. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 22.502
9 96 Smrz J. (CZE) Ducati 1098R 25.268
10 7 Checa C. (ESP) Honda CBR1000RR 30.203
11 57 Lanzi L. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 32.589
12 66 Sykes T. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 36.243
13 111 Xaus R. (ESP) BMW S1000 RR 36.368
14 31 Muggeridge K. (AUS) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 38.809
15 23 Parkes B. (AUS) Kawasaki ZX 10R 42.435
16 15 Baiocco M. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 49.349
17 9 Kiyonari R. (JPN) Honda CBR1000RR 1′01.823
18 99 Scassa L. (ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′06.854
RET 14 Lagrive M. (FRA) Honda CBR1000RR
RET 94 Checa D. (ESP) Yamaha YZF R1
RET 71 Kagayama Y. (JPN) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9
RET 10 Nieto F. (ESP) Ducati 1098R
RET 77 Iannuzzo V. (ITA) Honda CBR1000RR
RET 11 Corser T. (AUS) BMW S1000 RR
RET 25 Salom D. (ESP) Kawasaki ZX 10R
NP 100 Tamada M. (JPN) Kawasaki ZX 10R

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