Max Biaggi took another win in Race 2 at Misano, his fourth double of the season (Portimao, Monza, Miller and now Misano) and after breaking away from the rest of field on lap ten, imposing an almost impossible rhythm for the rest of field taking a seven second lead before slowing down on the final lap to win by four seconds.

Leon Haslam turned around his fortunes in Race 2 after his 8th spot in Race1, the Brit held off several riders who were fighting for a podium to take second and was ahead of Fabrizio by 0.4o9s.

The third spot on the podium went to Michel Fabrizio, who despite a well deserved podium after taking the spot from Cal Crutchlow at the “Quercia” on the penultimate lap, did a ’sour grapes’ interview at the parc ferme, stating that the bike that won is a MotoGP and the rest are Superbikes and that rules have to be changed.

Carlos Checa took fifth after Troy Corser, who was battling with the Althea Ducati rider on the last lap ran off track and would have to settle for a very disappointing 10th place, after leading race 2 for almost 10 laps.

Alstare Suzuki’s Sylvain Guintoli finished in sixth having his best weekend so far. Seventh went to Shane Byrne followed by another two Ducati riders, Luca Scassa on the privateer Supersonic and Ducati Xerox’s Noriyuki Haga .

James Toseland crashed out on the 11th lap and according to the commentators, who keep track this sort of stats, this is his 17th crash of the season between practices and races and if Toseland was unlucky, Jakub Smrz was even unluckier, the Czech rider didn’t complete the first lap in race 1 and race 2 went exactly the same way, his Ducati suffering from technical issues.

Biaggi now holds a 37-point lead over Haslam, with Checa in third with 172 points.

WSBK Misano Race 2 Results:

01- Max Biaggi – Aprilia Alitalia Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – 24 laps in 38′58.149
02- Leon Haslam – Team Suzuki Alstare – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 4.095
03- Michel Fabrizio – Ducati Xerox Team – Ducati 1198 – + 4.631
04- Cal Crutchlow – Yamaha Sterilgarda Team – Yamaha YZF R1 – + 5.014
05- Carlos Checa – Althea Racing – Ducati 1198 – + 6.256
06- Sylvain Guintoli – Team Suzuki Alstare – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 7.677
07- Shane Byrne – Althea Racing – Ducati 1198 – + 10.144
08- Luca Scassa – Supersonic Racing Team – Ducati 1198 – + 10.942
09- Noriyuki Haga – Ducati Xerox Team – Ducati 1198 – + 13.640
10- Troy Corser – BMW Motorrad Motorsport – BMW S1000RR – + 16.279
11- Leon Camier – Aprilia Alitalia Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 17.799
12- Jonathan Rea – HANNspree Ten Kate Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 22.793
13- Lorenzo Lanzi – DFX Corse – Ducati 1198 – + 24.131
14- Max Neukirchner – HANNspree Ten Kate Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 28.212
15- Chris Vermeulen – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 36.551
16- Tom Sykes – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 49.636
17- Broc Parkes – ECHO CRS Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 50.041
18- Roger Hayden – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 51.246
19- Matteo Baiocco – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 58.174
20- Federico Sandi – Gabrielli Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 1′10.588

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