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WSBK Misano: Troy Corser takes maiden pole for BMW
Troy Corser took his first pole position for the BMW team in today’s Superpole shoot-out at Misano. The Australian pole specialist (his 43rd) and two times World Superbike champion blazed a lap around the Misano Adriatico circuit to finish in a stratospheric 1′35.001 in the the third stint.
No other rider could come close to this lap time, infact Max Biaggi, who was celebrating his 39th birthday took second place on the grid, but was five tenths slower, but has an excellent race pace that bodes well for tomorrow’s races.
Third went to Michel Fabrizio, who is trying to raise the bar on his dismal season but he didn’t finish well when he crashed after the chequered flag on the warm down lap.
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WSBK Misano: Cal Crutchlow on Top in QP1
Warmer temperatures saw lap times drop during this afternoon’s QP1 at Misano with Cal Crutchlow topping the timesheets with a best lap of 1.36.288m on par with his Misano test times.
Troy Corser continues his good form, he was second and a mere 0.056s from Cruthlow’s QP1 lap, despite a crash half way through the session.
Leon Haslam completed the top three again and he finished just 0.077s from Crutchlow while Michel Fabrizio took fourth in front of privateer Ducati rider Carlos Checa.
WSBK Misano: Troy Corser draws first Blood in FP
Testing at Mugello and Misano seem to have paid off for Troy Corser. The BMW rider took first place in today’s free practice at the Misano World Circuit finishing ahead of Xerox Ducati’s Michel Fabrizio and Alstare Suzuki’s Leon Haslam.
The Australian put down a best lap of 1′37.362 (which is still more that 1 second higher than Cal Crutchlow’s best lap during the Misano test) while Fabrizio was off 0.268s from Corser’s best time and Haslam was just o.069 from Fabrizio.
James Toseland who’s still chasing his first win this season took fourth, followed by an amazing Luca Scassa who is riding Noriyuki Haga’s former 1198 F09 bike, while Haga himself took sixth, despite suffering a technical problem during the session.
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WSBK Miller: Biaggi Breaks Circuit Record Taking QP2
Max Biaggi clocked in the best time at the end of the second qualifying practice at Miller Motorsports Park, ahead of today’s Superpole session.
The Italian on his Aprilia RSV4F now using the new gear driven camshaft, stopped the clock at 1′48.115 which is also the new circuit record, bettering Carlos Checa’s 2008 best lap by 78 thousandths of second. The Roman Emperor remained hidden for most of the practice, but in the end jumped up to the top of the charts.
Second with a gap of 0.174s was Jakub Smrz who seems to love the Utah circuit, never venturing out of the top five in all the sessions so far. Following the Pata B&G rider was BMW’s Troy Corser, who made a big improvement to take third spot. Fourth and fifth were the Carlos Checa and Shane Byrne respectively.
Michel Fabrizio ended up in sixth behind the the privateer Ducati duo. Cal Crutchlow took the seventh spot, followed by two Leon’s; Haslam who couldn’t better his yesterday’s Q1 times and Camier, who hit the top of the speed charts at 311kph on his Aprilia, before crashing in the final minutes. Rounding out the top ten was Yamaha’s James Toseland.
Both Jonathan Rea and Noriyuki Haga ended up behind privateer Luca Scassa in 12th and 13th. Matteo Baiocco was last and therefore is out of the Superpole.
QP2 Results after the jump.
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WSBK Monza: Italian Flag Flies Twice for Max Biaggi
Max Biaggi and his Aprilia Alitalia flew the Italian tricolor flag on the highest podium for the second time at Monza’s temple of speed. The Roman Emperor won a superb race cruising to an easy victory and closing the championship lead to just three points from Leon Haslam in this fifth round.
Leon Haslam took second and BMW’s Troy Corser with his third place grabbed the first ever podium for the BMW Superbike team.
Biaggi got the holeshot again, but disaster struck on the first turn leading into the modified chicane when James Toseland, Jonathan Rea and Ruben Xaus got caught up in a confusing melee, with all three riders going down. The latest reports confirm that Toseland was taken to the hospital for further tests after that he was diagnosed with a concussion, while Rea suffered a slight sprain to his ankle and Xaus seems to got off virtually unscathed.
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WSBK Assen: Jonathan Rea Blazes to Superpole
With a blistering lap of 1′34.944 Jonathan Rea took his first ever World Superpole position at Assen today. The Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team rider was was the only one to dip under the 1.35 lap barrier.
On the first row alongside Rea will be Jakub Smrz on his Pata B&G private Ducati, while Troy Corser continues with his fantastic form on the ever improving BMW machine, took the third spot. Leon Haslam who leads in the championship standings completes the front row, while his closest rival, Max Biaggi will be taking off from 11th on the grid.
The second row will see Leon Camier in fifth, just two tenths off the front row and outshining his struggling team mate. Althea Ducati’s two riders Carlos Checa and Shane Byrne will be side by side on the grid with their 6th and 7th spots. Michel Fabrizio took the eighth spot while his team mate Noriyuki Haga finished the session in a lowly 15th place.
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WSBK Assen QP2 : Troy Corser on Top for the First Time
Troy Corser topped the time charts in this morning’s qualifying practice 2 at Assen. Mr. Croccodile was the first rider to go under the 1.36 mark with a best lap of 1′35.621 to take provisional pole heading into this afternoon’s Superpole session.
Jakub Smrz continues to show great form on the Dutch circuit taking the second spot and the only other rider to go below 1′36 barrier.
Jonathan Rea was third with almost a six tenths of a second gap from Corser’s lap. Althea’s Ducati Carlos Checa took the fourth spot followed by an excellent Leon Camier on the Aprilia who was eleven spots ahead of team mate Max Biaggi.
Leon Haslam was sixth, but according to his team manager Francesco Batta Haslam’s Suzuki has some braking problems that have yet to be solved. The first factory Ducati was Noriyuki Haga in seventh. The Japanese rider is trying to come to grips with the modified circuit. Haga was closely followed by Shane Byrne and Cal Crutchlow, whose team mate James Toseland was down in a lowly 17th position. Michel Fabrizio closed out the top ten.
Out of this afternoon’s Superpole are Matteo Baiocco and Roger Hayden.
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WSBK Assen QP1 - Smrz leads the Way
This afternoon’s qualifying practice on the slightly modified Assen circuit, more or less confirmed what happened during the earlier free practice, except that Czech rider Jakub Smrz on his privateer Pata B&G Ducati snatched the top spot from Hannspree Ten Kate Honda rider Jonathan Rea who had dominated FP. Smrz’s best lap was posted in 1′36.041, a little less than three tenths of second faster than Rea.
Third place went to Troy Corser who continues to bring his improving BMW S1000RR up to pace while Leon Haslam, points leader was fourth. Sterilgarda’s Cal Crutchlow took fifth despite a crash in the session.
Carlos Checa was sixth and the last rider within a second from Smrz’s best time. Aprilia’s Leon Camier was seventh while his team mate Max Biaggi could manage only a 16th placeand is using a slightly modifified gas tank to find a better balance on his Aprilia RSV4F and new swing arm.
Eighth spot went to Shane Byrne on the other Althea Ducati who finished ahead of Michel Fabrizio on the factory Xerox Ducati and Noriyuki Haga stopped the clock in 14th. Closing out the top ten was James Toseland.
BMW 2010 Team Launch
Last Friday at the BMW Group Classic in Munich, Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport officially launched its second season in the FIM Superbike World Championship with Troy Corser and Ruben Xaus who are ready to begin the 2010 season that takes of at Phillip Island February 28th.
In the presence of Infront Motor Sports CEO Paolo Flammini, Superbike World Championship Director Paolo Ciabatti and other guests, Corser and Xaus arrived on stage, riding their BMW S 1000 RR bikes.
Director BMW Motorrad Motorsport Berthold Hauser has ambitious goals: “Our goal is to close the gap to the leading teams. We are aiming to finish in the top five as regularly as possible and pick up our first podium. That’s the ambitious aim we have set ourselves for our second year in what is an extremely challenging World Championship. However, we are well aware that our competitors have not been standing still either. The Superbike World Championship brings us up against six motorcycle manufacturers who have established themselves on the race track. You can set yourself aims in sport and make plans to achieve them, but you cannot dictate results – those have to be earned out on the track. Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport is working flat out to make this possible.”
Davide Tardozzi, former Ducati team manager will head up team management and operational control at the race tracks. Rainer Bäumel will continue as Head of Overall Project Management and Project Management Engineering, and Tardozzi has been given carte blanche by the German company.
WSBK – Davide Tardozzi becomes BMW’s Team Manager
The rumors were circulating for several weeks, but Italian website Motosprint has now former Ducati Xerox manager Davide Tardozzi almost signed up with WSBK’s official BMW team.
Tardozzi left Ducati after almost twenty years of service and eight Riders’ Championships, first as a team manager then as Ducati’s SBK project manager, stated that he left the team because he was seeking new personal challenges and will find it in the highly ambitious German Superbike team in it’s second year of world racing,
No official press release yet, but Tardozzi is apparently hard at at work and many are convinced that he’s behind Ducati’s tech and track engineer Max Bertolini,who worked with rider Michel Fabrizio for the past two years, defection to BMW.
Tardozzi will find in BMW two riders he already knows and managed when he was in Ducati, Troy Corser who won the 1996 title with Ducati and Ruben Xaus.
We’ll see Tardozzi in the BMW garage during the official tests at Portimao, January 22th-24th.
Akrapovic live at EICMA: Ben Spies, Max Biaggi and KTM limited edition on display
Not that we’re jealous or anything, but the guys at Motoblog.it got to see: Ben Spies‘ Superbike live, Max Biaggi’s Aprilia live, Troy Corser’s BMW live and new Superstock champion Xavier Simeon’s bike as well. The Akrapovic stand also has the (very hot) limited edition Akrapovic KTM RC8R 1190 on display.
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Ben Spies to Race in MotoGP with Number 11
Ben Spies will be taking back his original number 11 that he used while racing in the AMA series, when he moves to the MotoGP World Championship next year to ride in Yamaha Tech 3.
The American will have to give up his #19 that has brought him luck in WSBK, as Spanish rider Alvaro Baustista, Suzuki’s new rookie, will be keeping the same number that he now uses in the 250cc series.
Spies chose to run #19 in his rookie year in the World Superbike series when he couldn’t take his own because BMW rider Troy Corser was using number 11. Picking number 19 was also Spies special way to pay homage to his late friend Ryan Smith.
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