When someone says never bet on motorcyle racing, they’ll use what happened in race 1 at Miller Motorsports Park as an example. Carlos Checa was leading the race with a dominant three second lead over Max Biaggi ,when disaster hit the Althea rider, his Ducati was struck down by a technical problem with just three laps to go handing over the victory to the Roman Emperor who cruised to his fifth victory of the season.

Checa and Biaggi would fight for the lead with a series of fast laps for over half the race leaving the rest of the field to fight over the rest of the positions, but halfway through the race with his tires taking a step down Biaggi had to concede the lead to an ultra fast Checa who was lapping easily under the 1′49 mark before his Ducati decided it had enough.

Leon Haslam took the second spot on the podium, despite a bad start that left him in ninth at the end of the first lap and having to contend with Jakub Smrz’s smoking Pata B&G Ducati, with the Czech rider having to retire at the end of the first lap. Haslam jumped up to two spots with a spectacular pass on Noriyuki Haga and Troy Corser and then found Leon Camier in front him. The Aprilia rider didn’t concede his third place easily, but Haslam managed the pass when Camier ran wide and the Brit would make the same mistake again letting Haga get by and allowing the Japanese take his third podium of the season.

Leon Camier finished in a comfortable fourth in front of Troy Corser who managed his fifth place just barely shaking off a hard charging Shane Byrne. Byrne with three laps to go, made his way past Ruben Xaus, Sylvain Guintoli, James Toseland and Luca Scassa to take sixth place.

Former AMA rider Scassa crossed the line in seventh, while Guintoli took an eighth place. James Toseland backpedaled from his seventh place to finish in ninth. Ruben Xaus rounded out the top ten ahead of Cal Crutchlow who managed to get back into the race after being taken out by Jonathan Rea during lap 4.

Max Neukirchner and Tom Sykes were 12th and 13th respectively and a heavily bandaged Rea managed to pass Chris Vermeulen on the final lap to take 14th.

WSBK Miller Race 1 Results:

01- Max Biaggi – Aprilia Alitalia Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – 21 giri in
02- Leon Haslam – Team Suzuki Alstare – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 4.931
03- Noriyuki Haga – Ducati Xerox Team – Ducati 1198 – + 6.432
04- Leon Camier – Aprilia Alitalia Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 8.576
05- Troy Corser – BMW Motorrad Motorsport – BMW S1000RR – + 11.150
06- Shane Byrne – Althea Racing – Ducati 1198 – + 11.243
07- Luca Scassa – Supersonic Racing Team – Ducati 1198 – + 12.432
08- Sylvain Guintoli – Team Suzuki Alstare – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 15.145
09- James Toseland – Yamaha Sterilgarda Team – Yamaha YZF R1 – + 16.091
10- Ruben Xaus – BMW Motorrad Motorsport – BMW S1000RR – + 16.502
11- Cal Crutchlow – Yamaha Sterilgarda Team – Yamaha YZF R1 – + 18.719
12- Max Neukirchner – HANNspree Ten Kate Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 24.285
13- Tom Sykes – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 36.479
14- Jonathan Rea – HANNspree Ten Kate Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 39.700
15- Chris Vermeulen – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 41.253
16- Roger Hayden – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 41.661
17- Broc Parkes – ECHO CRS Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 1′00.427
18- Matteo Baiocco – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX 10R – 4 laps

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