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The MOTUL FIM World Superbike Championship weekend at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli has just drawn to a close with four winners in the three different Championship categories.
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK / Kawasaki ZX-10RR), after winning Race 1 on Saturday, also took Race 2, thereby giving the Akashi-based manufacturer a brilliant double and reducing the gap to 16 points behind current Championship leader Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R) who only managed to win the Sunday morning Tissot Superpole® Race and take third in Race 1 at Misano. Worth a mention is the performance of Toprak Razgatlioglu who, with his privately operated Turkish Puccetti Racing team Kawasaki, led Race 2 for several laps until being forced to yield the position to Rea.
The WorldSSP Championship race reserved a thrilling battle between teammates for Bardahl Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team Randy Krummenacher and Federico Caricasulo, with the Swiss rider finishing on top in the race, thereby bringing his advantage in the championship standings to 22 points over the Italian.
Lastly, in the WorldSSP300 Championship race, defending World Champion Ana Carrasco was back to her winning ways.
During the Misano weekend, Pirelli gathered important information and confirmation. First and foremost, is the information on the SCX, the solution that the Italian tyre company designed to be used as a pre-qualifier and possibly for the Sunday morning sprint race. After excellent feedback in Jerez, at Misano, the SCX was used by practically all the riders on the grid for the Tissot Superpole® Race, and Marco Melandri and Sandro Cortese even chose it for Race 2 over a 21-lap distance.
Also putting in an outstanding performance was the new SCR1 rear rain tyre on Saturday and the standard SC1 and SC0 rear solutions today, both in the new, larger 125/70 and 200/65 sizes.
WORLDSBK TISSOT SUPERPOLE® RACE:
In the Tissot Superpole® Race, Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK / Kawasaki ZX-10RR) started well straight away from pole position, but Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R) managed to move up from fifth to second as early as the first lap. Behind them it was, Sandro Cortese (GRT Yamaha WorldSBK / Yamaha YZF R1) who lost a position, as did Tom Sykes (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team / BMW S1000 RR), slipping from third to fourth.
During the third lap, the Spanish Ducati rider succeeded in overtaking the defending World Champion, moving into the race lead. On the following lap, the other factory Ducati rider, Chaz Davies, crashed out on turn 14 for a DNF.
Bautista tried to set his race pace straight away, doing the race fast lap and starting the fifth lap with a one-second advantage over his closest rival, Jonathan Rea.
On the eighth lap, Sandro Cortese, who had been lying third, crashed on turn 16 and was forced to box. Shortly thereafter, Rea also crashed on turn 10, but was able to recover and get back on the track in sixth place. On the final lap, a technical problem knocked Tom Sykes out of the race.
At the end of the ten-lap race, Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R) took the win with an advantage of more than seven seconds over Alex Lowes (Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team / Yamaha YZF R1) and more than nine seconds ahead of Leon Haslam (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK / Kawasaki ZX-10RR), who finished third It was an excellent fourth place finish for Toprak Razgatlioglu (Turkish Puccetti Racing / Kawasaki ZX-10RR), the first of the private teams, while Rea had to settle for fifth.
WorldSBK Tissot Superpole® Race standings:
1) Á. Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
2) A. Lowes (Pata Yamaha WorldSBK Team / Yamaha YZF R1)
3) L. Haslam (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK / Kawasaki ZX-10RR)
4) T. Razgatlioglu (Turkish Puccetti Racing / Kawasaki ZX-10RR)
5) J. Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK / Kawasaki ZX-10RR)
6) M. Melandri (GRT Yamaha WorldSBK / Yamaha YZF R1)
7) M. Rinaldi (Barni Racing Team / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
8) M. Pirro (BARNI Racing Team / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
9) L. Mercado (Orelac Racing VerdNatura / Kawasaki ZX-10RR)
10) L. Zanetti (Team Goeleven / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
11) J. Torres (Team Pedercini Racing / Kawasaki ZX-10RR)
12) L. Baz (Ten Kate Racing – Yamaha / Yamaha YZF R1)
13) M. Reiterberger (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team / BMW S1000 RR)
14) Y. Takahashi (Moriwaki Althea Honda Team / Honda CBR1000RR)
15) R. Kiyonari (Moriwaki Althea Honda Team / Honda CBR1000RR)
16) D. Schmitter (iXS Racing powered by YART / Yamaha YZF R1)
17) C. Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
RT) T. Sykes (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team / BMW S1000 RR)
RT) S. Cortese (GRT Yamaha WorldSBK / Yamaha YZF R1)
RT) A. Delbianco (Althea Mie Racing Team / Honda CBR1000RR)
RT) S. Cavalieri (Motocorsa Racing / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
WORLDSBK RACE 2:
When the red lights went out for Race 2, Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R) started well from pole position, staying in the race lead. Behind him were Leon Haslam (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK / Kawasaki ZX-10RR), who managed to gain the upper hand over Alex Lowes (Pata Yamaha WorldSBK Team / Yamaha YZF R1) at the start.
There was an unexpected twist on the second lap when Bautista crashed on turn 4, but managing to re-join in last place.
This left Leon Haslam in first place ahead of teammate Jonathan Rea and the other Kawasaki rider, Toprak Razgatlioglu (Turkish Puccetti Racing / Kawasaki ZX-10RR).
On the fourth lap, the Turkish rider bested the four-time World Champion with a brilliant manoeuvre, moving in behind the race leader, only to take the lead himself on the fifth lap. Shortly thereafter, Jonathan Rea managed to overtake his teammate for second. In the meantime, Marco Melandri (GRT Yamaha WorldSBK / Yamaha YZF R1) crept up dangerously into fourth position behind Leon Haslam.
On the thirteenth lap, Marco Melandri crashed at turn 8, and in the meantime, Razgatlioglu and Rea formed a leading duo with an advantage of more than three seconds ahead of the nearest rivals.
During the eighteenth lap, the defending World Champion managed to overtake Razgatlioglu, thereby moving into the race lead.
On the penultimate lap, Alex Lowes temporarily snatched third from Leon Haslam, only to relinquish it a bit later.
In the end, Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK / Kawasaki ZX-10RR) was in the lead when the chequered flag came out, finishing first ahead of an extraordinary Toprak Razgatlioglu (Turkish Puccetti Racing / Kawasaki ZX-10RR) and teammate Leon Haslam (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK / Kawasaki ZX-10RR).
WorldSBK Race 2 standings:
1) J. Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK / Kawasaki ZX-10RR)
2) T. Razgatlioglu (Turkish Puccetti Racing / Kawasaki ZX-10RR)
3) L. Haslam (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK / Kawasaki ZX-10RR)
4) A. Lowes (Pata Yamaha WorldSBK Team / Yamaha YZF R1)
5) M. Rinaldi (Barni Racing Team / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
6) T. Sykes (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team / BMW S1000 RR)
7) C. Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
8) M. Pirro (BARNI Racing Team / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
9) L. Zanetti (Team Goeleven / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
10) J. Torres (Team Pedercini Racing / Kawasaki ZX-10RR)
11) M. Reiterberger (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team / BMW S1000 RR)
12) L. Baz (Ten Kate Racing – Yamaha / Yamaha YZF R1)
13) S. Cavalieri (Motocorsa Racing / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
14) Á. Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R)
15) S. Cortese (GRT Yamaha WorldSBK / Yamaha YZF R1)
16) M. Melandri (GRT Yamaha WorldSBK / Yamaha YZF R1)
17) R. Kiyonari (Moriwaki Althea Honda Team / Honda CBR1000RR)
RT) L. Mercado (Orelac Racing VerdNatura / Kawasaki ZX-10RR)
RT) Y. Takahashi (Moriwaki Althea Honda Team / Honda CBR1000RR)
RT) A. Delbianco (Althea Mie Racing Team / Honda CBR1000RR)
WORLDSSP RACE:
Between the Tissot Superpole® Race and Race 2, the FIM Supersport World Championship race was held with Lucas Mahias (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing / Kawasaki ZX-6R) in pole position. However, the French World Champion was unable to be incisive in the race, finishing third. The race was a thrilling two-way challenge between the Bardahl Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team riders, Randy Krummenacher and Federico Caricasulo, who battled no-holds-barred all the way to the chequered flag.
The two riders, who are currently leading in the championship standings, overtook Lucas Mahias at the start, immediately setting a race pace that the other riders were unable to maintain, except for Mahias who still managed to stick with them and finish third just a hair behind Krummenacher and Caricasulo.
At the end of the race, it was Swiss rider Randy Krummenacher (Bardahl Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team / Yamaha YZF R6)beating out teammate Federico Caricasulo, second, with Lucas Mahias (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing / Kawasaki ZX-6R) having to settle for the lowest step of the podium. Fourth place went to Jules Cluzel (GMT94 Yamaha / Yamaha YZF R6).
WorldSSP standings:
1) R. Krummenacher (Bardahl Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team / Yamaha YZF R6)
2) F. Caricasulo (Bardahl Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team / Yamaha YZF R6)
3) L. Mahias (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing / Kawasaki ZX-6R)
4) J. Cluzel (GMT94 Yamaha / Yamaha YZF R6)
5) H. Okubo (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing / Kawasaki ZX-6R)
6) L. Gabellini (GOMMA Racing / Yamaha YZF R6)
7) H. Soomer (MPM WILSport Racedays / Honda CBR600RR)
8) K. Manfredi (Team Rosso e Nero / Yamaha YZF R6)
9) T. Gradinger (Kallio Racing / Yamaha YZF R6)
10) M. Roccoli (Team Rosso Corsa / Yamaha YZF R6)
11) F. Fuligni (MV Agusta Reparto Corse / MV Agusta F3 675)
12) L. Ottaviani (SGM Tecnic / Yamaha YZF R6)
13) L. Cresson (Kallio Racing / Yamaha YZF R6)
14) J. Danilo (CIA Landlord Insurance Honda / Honda CBR600RR)
15) M. Casadei (Bardahl Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team / Yamaha YZF R6)
16) P. Sebestyen (CIA Landlord Insurance Honda / Honda CBR600RR)
17) F. Fuligni (Team Rosso e Nero / Yamaha YZF R6)
18) R. Hartog(Team Hartog - Against Cancer / Kawasaki ZX-6R)
19) K. Smith (Team Pedercini Racing / Kawasaki ZX-6R)
20) G. Van Straalen (EAB Racing Team / Kawasaki ZX-6R)
21) C. Stange (GEMAR - Ciociaria Corse WorldSSP Team / Honda CBR600RR)
22) N. Calero (Orelac Racing VerdNatura / Kawasaki ZX-6R)
23) R. Rolfo (Team GREEN SPEED / Kawasaki ZX-6R)
24) P. Hobelsberger (Hobelsberger Racing / Yamaha YZF R6)
25) M. Canducci (DK MOTORSPORT / Yamaha YZF R6)
26) A. Gyorfi (Team Toth / Yamaha YZF R6)
27) I. Viñales (Kallio Racing / Yamaha YZF R6)
RT) A. Badovini (Team Pedercini Racing / Kawasaki ZX-6R)
RT) G. Sconza (GEMAR - Ciociaria Corse WorldSSP Team / Honda CBR600RR)
RT) R. De Rosa (MV Agusta Reparto Corse / MV Agusta F3 675)
RT) J. Van Sikkelerus (MPM WILSport Racedays / Honda CBR600RR)
RT) C. Perolari (GMT94 Yamaha / Yamaha YZF R6)
DSQ) M. Herrera (MS Racing / Yamaha YZF R6)
WORLDSSP300 RACE:
The final event of the day was the FIM Supersport 300 World Championship race.Winning the race was defending World Champion, Ana Carrasco (Kawasaki Provec WorldSSP300 / Kawasaki Ninja 400), who finished ahead of Spaniard Manuel Gonzalez (Kawasaki ParkingGO Team / Kawasaki Ninja 400)and Frenchman Andy Verdoïa (BCD Yamaha MS Racing / Yamaha YZF-R3).
The Pirelli solutions chosen by the riders for the WorldSBK and WorldSSP races:
In the Tissot Superpole® Race, with the exception of Ryūichi Kiyonari, the rear pre-qualifying SCX solution in the Y0447 specification (option X) earned the preference of all the riders on the grid, whereas at the front, everyone used the standard SC1 in the 125/70 size (option A).
In Race 2, the riders basically confirmed the solutions they had chosen for the front, so the standard SC1 in the 125/70 size (option A) remained primarily the most used solution. As for the rear, most of the riders opted for the standard SC0 (option B), but there were some riders who preferred relying on the Y0446 SC0 development tyre (option A), such as Toprak Razgatlioglu, Tom Sykes, Markus Reiterberger and Lorenzo Zanetti, and there were even those who went with the SCX - Marco Melandri and Sandro Cortese.
In the WorldSSP race, the winning combination was made ups of the standard SC1 (option A) front tyre and the Y0410 SC0 development solution in the larger 190/60 size (option B) on the rear.
Pirelli statistics for WorldSBK Tissot Superpole® Race:
• Winner of the PIRELLI BEST LAP AWARD: Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R),in 1'35.169in the 3rd lap
• Most used front solution: standard SC1 125/70 (20 out of 21 riders)
• Most used rear solution: SCX (20 out of 21 riders)
• Maximum race speed reached by Pirelli DIABLO™ Superbike tyres: 276.9 km/h, achieved by Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R) and by Michele Pirro (BARNI Racing Team / Ducati Panigale V4 R) in the 1st lap
• Air temperature: 25° C
• Asphalt temperature: 37° C
Pirelli statistics for WorldSBK Race 2:
• Winner of the PIRELLI BEST LAP AWARD: Toprak Razgatlioglu (Turkish Puccetti Racing / Kawasaki ZX-10RR),in 1'36.814in the 2nd lap
• Most used front solution: standard SC1 125/70 (19 out of 20 riders)
• Most used rear solution: standard SC0 200/65 (14 out of 20 riders)
• Maximum race speed reached by Pirelli DIABLO™ Superbike tyres: 276.2 km/h, achieved by Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati / Ducati Panigale V4 R) in the 18th lap
• Air temperature: 27° C
• Asphalt temperature: 51° C
Pirelli statistics for WorldSSP race:
• Winner of the PIRELLI BEST LAP AWARD: Federico Caricasulo (Bardahl Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team / Yamaha YZF R6), in 1'39.930in the 4th lap
• Most used front solution: standard SC1 (23 out of 33 riders)
• Most used rear solution: development SC0 Y0410 (30 out of 33 riders)
• Maximum race speed reached by Pirelli DIABLO™ Supercorsa tyres: 240 km/h, achieved by Federico Caricasulo (Bardahl Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team / Yamaha YZF R6) in the 16th and 17th lap
• Air temperature: 27° C
• Asphalt temperature: 44° C
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