While BMW teammate Troy Corser scored an excellent 5th place and a 10th place during the WSBK round at Brno, Ruben Xaus was not so lucky. The Spanish rider crashed out in in the first lap of race 1 and broke his femur.

Xaus was operated on at the Centro Medico Teknon in Barcellona and three screws were inserted into his femur and the rider according to a hospital spokesperson will leave the hospital later tonight.

This injury will probably keep Xaus away for the next round at Nurburgring in September and Julian Mazuecos who is BMW’s rider in the German IDM Superbike series and also their official test rider, could fill in for Xaus.

You can see Xaus’s bone breaking crash after the jump.

Continue reading: WSBK- Ruben Xaus to miss Nurburgring?

Michel Fabrizio isn’t new to these type of passes that take out other riders, the Roman is often over enthusiastic and once and awhile turns his brain off. This time it was Ben Spies who was leading race 1, trying to catch up on points leader Noriyuki Haga, getting clipped by Fabrizio.

Last year he took out Max Biaggi twice, once at Misano and then in Portimao that resulted in a verbal standoff between Fabrizio’s manager, Pierfrancesco Chili and Max Biaggi, that later cost Chili’s job as a WSBK commentator on Italian TV La7.

Fabrizio in his garage before race 2 displayed a little note to the cameras apologizing for the incident, it read :
“I’m realy sorry. I love you Ben”.

I swear Fabrizio did write “really” with only one l.

Continue reading: Michel Fabrizio wipes out Ben Spies at Brno

Ben Spies took his 11th victory in Race 2 at Brno and cut the championship lead to seven points from Noriyuki Haga.

Spies took the lead of the race from Troy Corser at the second turn, follwed by Michel Fabrizio and race 1 winner Max Biaggi. The two Italians diced it out for at least five laps with Biaggi finally getting past Fabrizio and making it stick, then set his sights on the Texas Terror.

Biaggi sat on Spies tail shadowing the American, but Spies rode his Yamaha defensively and prefectly never letting Biaggi find an open door to put the nose of the Aprilia through. Spies would cross the finish line in front of the Roman Emperor.

Fabrizio was third, fourth and fifth going Honda Ten Kate riders Jonathan Rea and Carlos Checa.
Sixth went to the heroic Noriyuki Haga, two place up from race 1 and was able to to beat Shane Byrne and Troy Corser, and holding off Tom Sykes.

Continue reading: WSBK Brno Race 2 - Ben Spies Takes 11th Victory

Max Biaggi took his Aprilia RSV4 to their first victory of the season during Race 1 at Brno.

Biaggi took an easy win when Xerox Ducati’s Michel Fabrizio on lap four of the race tried to pass Ben Spies, overbraked and lost his front and went down taking Spies with him. Spies naturally was not happy and vented his anger on Fabrizio because this DNF caused by the Italian stopped him from closing in on points leader Noriyuki Haga.

Haga riding injured and loaded with painkillers, rode defensively and finished eighth and increased his lead in the standings by another eight points.

Continue reading: WSBK Brno Race 1 - Max Biaggi and Aprilia take 1st Victory

Aprilia’s Max Biaggi took provisional pole at Brno with a last lap of 1.59.982 in the remaining seconds of the session and was the only rider to go under the two minute lap.

The Italian took the top spot from fellow Roman, Michel Fabrizio who was less than one tenth from the Roman Emperor. Third place to Carlos Checa on his Ten Kate Honda while Ben Spies was fourth quickest, on another learning curve was 0.576 from Biaggi.

Lorenzo Lanzi in fifth with his DFX Ducati and BMW’s Ruben Xaus sixth and Shinya Nakano on the second Aprilia was seventh and Troy Corser was eighth. Broc Parkes on Kawasaki 9th and top ten was closed by Yuki Kagayama, sole rider for Alstare Suzuki this weekend who also suffered a fall.

Points leader Noriyuki Haga finished in 15th returning to track after fracturing his scapula and wrist at the Donington round, but was only 5 tenths from Ben Spies time.

Continue reading: Max Biaggi dominates Friday at Brno