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World Superbike Misano gallery
We’ve put together our final gallery of last weekend’s action packed racing for you to enjoy, the World Superbike round at the Misano World Circuit, where Althea’s Ducati rider and current points leader Carlos Checa showed everyone how it’s done, twice.
Misano paddock girls gallery - part 2
Since each World Superbike round is divided into two races, we’ve decided to do the same with the Misano paddock girls.
After this morning’s first gallery, here’s the second, so you feast your eyes on even more ‘belle signorine’ or ‘ombrelline’ as Italians call their brolly girls.
Paddock girls from the WSBK weekend at Misano
How can a racing weekend be complete without paddock girls and these are just some of the few head turning Italian beauties that graced the World Superbike paddock at Misano this weekend.
Luckily the weather took a turn for the better and it turned out to be sunny and hot, so the outfits were kept to a minimum to the joy of girl watchers. Enjoy the gallery.
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WSBK video highlights from Misano and rider quotes
If you missed any of the exciting World Superbike action from round six at Misano, we’ve got video highlights of the two races and what all the riders had to say after both races.
Carlos Checa is still the leader in the championship standings with 245 points against Max Biaggi’s 173 and Marco Melandri’s 150. The next round is at the Motorland Aragon circuit in Spain this upcoming weekend.
Carlos Checa (1st and 1st):
“What a great result today! In the first race, I didn’t make a great start, losing some ground through the first corners. Max was strong at the start and it wasn’t easy to pass him but once in front, I was able to find good rhythm and build a small advantage. I’m extremely satisfied also because the tyre began to slide in the final laps and it was very hot today. We changed tyre for race 2 and it seems we made the right decision. Max was strong again in race 2 and both he and I had a strong pace, stronger than the other riders, but I perhaps had an extra couple of tenths over him. When I took the lead I managed the race well and took the second win of the day. We knew that Misano could be favourable to us, after results during testing here in May, but I didn’t expect the double win. Fantastic, and perhaps even more important that the Miller wins because we knew we could do well there while here it was far from easy and so even more special.”
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WSBK Misano: Carlos Checa wins again in red flagged race 2
Althea Ducati’s Carlos Checa ran away again with another consecutive double win, the ninth race win of the season after taking the victory in a red flagged race 2 at Misano.
The first part of the race saw Checa grab the lead on lap 2 followed by an aggressive Max Biaggi, but a crash at turn 1 on the 11th lap by Marco Melandri and another by Leon Camier immediately after put a stop to the race to allow the marshals to clear the track of Melandri’s oil dripping R1.
In the restarted race that was shortened to 14 laps, both Melandri and Camier unable to take part as they didn’t return to their garages with their bikes, even if half a dozen marshals did try to help Melandri jump start his Yamaha.
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UPDATED -Misano update: Jonathan Rea breaks wrist - will miss Aragon
Jonathan Rea’s big crash during this morning’s warm-up at Misano has left the Castrol Honda rider with a break to his right radius and a small fracture to his left collarbone.
At the moment it is unknown whether the Nothern Irishman will be able to take part in next week’s round at the Motorland Aragon circuit in Spain.
More news when we get it.
UPDATED:
It has been confirmed that Jonathan Rea will miss next weekend’s Motorland Aragon round after breaking his right radius, chipping his left collarbone also sustaining and a small fracture to a metatarsal in his foot.
Check out the video after the jump where the Ulsterman describes all his injuries and hopes to be back for Brno.
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WSBK Misano: Super cool Carlos Checa wins race 1
Carlos Checa did it again at the Misano World Circuit, taking a comfortable victory in race 1 under a sunny Italian sky and his seventh of this season
The Althea Ducati rider who currently leads in the standings, had so so start when the lights went out and had to work his way back to the front first battling with Tom Sykes and overtaking him on lap 2, but Max Biaggi was already on a roll and in the lead after taking the position from Leon Haslam on lap 2.
Checa started to reel in Biaggi and on lap 12, the Italian ran slightly wide and uncharacteristically Checa pushed aggressively past Biaggi, almost making contact, but immediately apologized for the maneuver by raising his hand.
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WSBK Misano: Carlos Checa back on top in warm-up, Rea crashes
World Superbike warm-up practice at sunny Misano saw Carlos Checa regain the top of the timesheets followed by Ayrton Baldovini and Michel Fabrizio ahead of the this afternoon’s races, however the session was red flagged after Jonathan Rea crashed at turn 11 and suffered a concussion.
Rea who qualified 11th in yesterday’s Superpole and already carrying an elbow injury that required stitches is currently in the hospital for scans and is expected to be ruled out of this round.
Noriyuki Haga was fourth in front of the Effenbert Liberty Racing duo Jakub Smrz and Sylvain Guintoli. Max Biaggi was seventh despite nursing a small fracture in the cartilage of the astragalus that he picked up after crashing in yesterday’s Superpole session.
Closing out the top ten were Leon Haslam, pole man Tom Sykes and Marco Melandri.
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Tom Sykes grabs the Superpole in wet Misano
If someone would have said that Tom Sykes would be in pole position for tomorrows’s World Superbike round at Misano, they would have been judged nuts, but they didn’t take in account a rain shower that drenched the Italian circuit would throw a big wrench in the Superpole session.
The Brit, who is known as a wet weather specialist, went through all three stints in the top two and finally layed down 1′55.197 lap in SP3 that let him beat Carlos Checa and take his second ever pole position after Imola 2010.
Due to the treacherous conditions, SP1 saw numerous riders fall on their fast laps, Ruben Xaus, Carlos Checa, Leon Camier binned it twice, Eugene Laverty and Jakub Smrz, who would later set the fastest lap. Max Biaggi busted the engine on his Aprilia which spewed oil on the track and had to run to get his spare bike before the timed session ended, that saw Michel Fabrizio, Maxime Berger, Ruben Xaus and Leon Camier not making it to SP2.
Gaining more confidence in SP2, but not enjoying the situation as he almost didn’t make the cut was Carlos Checa, who managed a last lap lunge to grab top of the chart with a best lap of 1.55.730 with Tom Sykes in second spot followed by the Effenbert Ducati duo Jakub Smrz and Sylvain Guintoli, Max Biaggi, Marco Melandri, Troy Corser and Leon Haslam.
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WSBK Misano: Carlos Checa on top in QP2
Carlos Checa again headed the timesheets in this morning’s QP2 at Misano. The Spaniard despite a crash at the half way mark of the session, got the best of Max Biaggi on his final run and left the reigning World Champion adrift by 0.322s.
They were the only two to break the 1’36s mark, while Alstare Suzuki’s Michel Fabrizio took the third spot with Kawasaki’s Joan Lascorz finding something special in the last minutes and slipped into fourth place from 18th, with both riders also took a tumble.
Fifth went to Marco Melandri, who exchanged some hard overtaking passes with rival Max Biaggi for a lap and he was followed by Leon Haslam in sixth. Also making the cut into Superpole was Haslam’s team mate Troy Corser who had a massive highside during yesterday’s QP1, but still was able to take the 13th best time.
WSBK Misano: Carlos Checa leads in QP1
After seeing Casey Stoner crush the field during FP2 and no one able to get close to him, and the QP1 lap times in WSBK at Misano, you don’t have to be a genius to understand that there’s going to be much more tight racing at the Italian circuit than at Silverstone on Sunday and which will probably be more exciting to watch.
Carlos Checa once again lead the field and even if Max Biaggi wasn’t as close as this morning he still was only a little more than a tenth of second adrift and second.
WSBK rookie Marco Melandri made a big jump forward to take third followed by Michel Fabrizio on the lone Alstare Suzuki. Troy Corser took fifth, but had a massive highside at turn 8 landing heavily on his back with less than four minutes left in practice, which was red flagged. Apparently Corser seems okay, but is currently undergoing a check-up at the Clinica Mobile after taking a blow to the head.
WSBK Misano: Carlos Checa on pace in FP1
If at Silverstone MotoGP lap times weren’t even close, there was slightly a different story in FP1 at the Misano circuit. Points leader Carlos Checa started the weekend by bagging the top spot, but he was tightly tailed by Max Biaggi who tested at Misano earlier last month and unofficially broke the track record and was just 0.011s from the Althea Ducati rider.
Third went to Troy Corser and his BMW machine, while team mate Leon Haslam was fourth, both taking advantage of the fact that they too tested at Misano last month. Leon Camier took the fifth spot and the last rider to be within a second of Checa’s best lap. Ayrton Badovini was sixth despite a tumble at the Tramonto turn was sixth. Michel Fabrizio was seventh and followed by the Effenbert Ducati duo Sylvain Guintoli and Jakub Smrz in eighth and ninth respectively.
Marco Melandri closed out the top ten, coming to grips with a track he previously raced on only with a MotoGP bike, while team mate Eugene Laverty was just 17th.
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