Superbike World Championship 2011 Aragon/Spain: 1. run

Marco Melandri won the first race of the superbikes in Aragon before his arch-enemy Max Biaggi. Carlos Checa crashed.

Poleman Marco Melandri clinched the victory in the first Superbike race in Aragon. In an exciting and tactically clever race, the Italian prevailed over his compatriot Max Biaggi. Thus it was not a victory for the Romans again this year. His team-mate Leon Camier came in a low-key race on the third rank.
Marco Melandri took the Holeshot and bent a first in the first corner. Behind him is equal to Biaggi filed, which a few turns later also conceded it and put at the top. In the first rounds, the Romans could submit also a higher tempo and to issue. When he had then about one second, Melandri was at the right grip and brought up gradually.
Towards the end of the race, Biaggi got more and more problems with the tires, but Melandri was not over. He remained in terms of top speed on the straight approximately seven to ten miles per hour in the peak of the Aprilia. Five laps from the end made the Romans a typical to mistake under pressure and had to go far in the hairpin after the long straight. Melandri was at the top and went directly to and from. At the latest as it became clear that he had bluffed on the straight, because at one time he could sail without wind shade to the 318 km / H. Peak values, which was previously only Biaggi.
Leon Camier brought on two dramatically in the last few laps on his team-mates ranked. However, the distance of about two seconds was too big to close him in three rounds. Thus, the stage looked like the grid for the race.
A battle group of Eugene Laverty, Tom Sykes, Noriyuki Haga and Joan Lascorz gathered behind the top three. The position changed several times in each round, but at the end of the second factory Yamaha narrowly defeated the Kawasaki by Tom Sykes continued. Haga was sixth before Lascorz.
Ayrton Badovini was again best BMW pilot before his factory colleagues Leon Haslam and Troy Corser, who completed the top ten with the eighth place.
Carlos Checa was the most prominent victims of the crash in this first race. When you try to fight, to drive to third place, possibly, further forward, he slipped away over the front wheel. He already had several rounds before intercept violent ride. His lead in the Championship is still very comfortable.
Jakub SMRZ and Michel Fabrizio had also to the ground. Ruben Xaus had a short stay in the box, continued the race but then in the hope on points. However, no one resigned before him so that he had to be content with a rank of 16.

Superbike World Championship 2011 Aragon/Spain: 2. run

In the second round of superbikes in Aragon, Max Biaggi was able to celebrate his first win of the season. He won ahead of Marco Melandri and Carlos Checa.

Under blue skies and in bright sunlight Max Biaggi in Aragon secured its first victory in this season. This time, it was his hunters, Marco Melandri, who made a mistake and won as the race five laps to go in favor of the ROMER. Melandri bremste is shipping in travel to and from the first corner and slipped off of the footrests, so he had to drive a wide arc. Carlos Checa made the leap on the podium in the second round and could operate so good damage control.
Checa had a bad start, but what it back to the eighth position, but after a brief recovery phase blew "El Torro" to attack went through the field, like a hot knife through butter. The train at the top was however left and finally happened for him in third place. He came close while still once dangerous Melandri after its failure, but it reached him not, to him by zupressen.
After the fall in the first run was a better second Italian Michel Fabrizio. He came on the fourth position in front of Joan Lascorz. Eugene Laverty, also put out a really bad start. He was passed up to the 16th place in the first round. In the course of the race he worked but in the sixth place ahead, to which he fought with Noriyuki Haga. The Irishman had the nose but at the end of the front.
Leon Camier rode a lonely race, but only at the eighth position such as at the lunch. Leon Haslam was ninth before Ayrton Badovini. Both delivered an exciting fight themselves, but this time, the plant pilot could claim.
Jakub SMRZ was again under the crashes. The Czech was a pitch-black weekend in Spain. He left the track without more championship points. The Ducati rider in last place was at the time of the fall. Harder it got off to the ailing Troy Corser, who with Maxime Berger collided and had to be brought in the medical centre. Berger was unhurt. Without wounds, also Tom Sykes returned in the box, after he fired his Kawasaki in the gravel. Give up the race, had to Ruben Xaus, who described his crew on the box errors in the transmission.

IDM Superbike at the Sachsenring

Under difficult conditions, Dario Giuseppetti won the double victory at the Sachsenring.

(Autosport.com) Dario Giuseppetti has his crash at the Nurburgring seemingly recovered, because the Berlin won both the IDM Superbike at the Sachsenring. Karl Muggeridge and Damian Cudlin were this weekend in the first run of Martin Bauer and Matej SMRZ, as well as in the second race on the podium.

In the first run, the sympathetic Berlin on the Ducati showed a strong performance. He won the first race before Martin Bauer on the KTM and Matej SMRZ, which could go not the pace of Giuseppetti. In the end, he prevailed with 7,143 seconds ahead of the Austrians. Karl Muggeridge, who approached the race from the second position, had a few problems and much even behind Damian Cudlin on the fifth position.

Jorg Teuchert Team Yamaha motor of Germany was sixth on the line and was Michael Ranseder and Ghisbert van Ginhoven. His team-mate Sascha Hommel bike his Yamaha in the 9th place. With Filip Altendorfer, a more BMW ended up in the top 10.

After four rounds, the second race of the IDM Superbike at the Sachsenring was an early end, because it began to rain. The race Director responded and dropped out of the race. Again, there were Giuseppetti and Bauer, which given the race up to that point. SMRZ and Bauer won the restart, but in the fast right-hander direction Saxon basic very rudely, both KTM riders rose from their machines. Framjen Sikora and Kevin followed them true at the same location. Martin Bauer had to be brought in the medical centre and was then taken to the hospital. He moved to only multiple bruises.

Meanwhile Muggeridge and Giuseppetti fought a hard but fair fight on the track. Because the distances from the first part of race in the second were taken over, the Berlin had a comfortable lead of 2.6 seconds on the Australians. Giuseppetti crossed the finish line with his Ducati but was the first and gathered this weekend to 50 points. Muggeridge was second ahead of compatriot Damian Cudlin.

Jorg Teuchert again only just missed the jump on the podium in the circumstances, and finished fourth. For a long time his team-mate Hommel and Gareth Jones dueled in a long-distance duel, but had to Hommel to the ground in the last corner of the last lap and so was Jones' fifth place safely. Barry Veneman was sixth ahead of his team-mate van Ginhoven. Filip Backlund came with his Suzuki to the eighth rank before Filip Altendorfer. The team-mate of Cudlin, Marc Wildisen, rounded off the top ten.

Superbike WM in Aragon/E - IDM Sachsenring - Motocross World Championship

Superbike World Championship 2011 Misano/San Marino: course 2.

The second race at Misano of the Superbike World Championship went back to the old Spaniard who is imposing against the still older Max Biaggi.

 Re Carlos Checa not of anything was impress and the double victory before Max Biaggi clinched in Misano. A restart prevented the success of the Spaniard, but brought an old friend once again on the podium: Noriyuki Haga.
The launch won poleman of Tom Sykes, was quickly overtaken by a rocket-like started Leon Haslam. The two top pilots from the first race also Ecru to Sykes past. This Checa went somewhat forceful to works, that Sykes had to open and thus opened the door for Biaggi. Haslam at the top could not help having but the pressure of the two and slipped off to the rear.
As a result, also the Italian Marco Melandri Leon Haslam overtook. After ten laps, but goodbye Melandri out of the race and caused a Rennabbruch, because his machine on the track are remained. At the same place it had Leon Camier, which was at that time on the 12th position.
Max Biaggi won the restart in a 14-round Chase ahead of Haslam and Checa. Sykes was the big loser of the restart, because he fell back to tenth place and fell four laps to go. Haslam lost some positions in the course of the race as in the first round again and had to pass not only Checa, but continued also Eugene Laverty, who however had to in the fifth round of the Italian dirt and the race in last place. Biaggi went out a small lead in this time the but Checa again from knapperte.
In the sixth round, Max Biaggi made a common mistake: similar to as in action with Valentino Rossi, Carlos Checa drove the Italians to a fault. Roman shipping bremste himself and had to go far, what gave the leadership Checa. Haga at Haslam passed in the battle for third place and Michel Fabrizio drangelte is on the fifth position over to Ayrton Badovini. The latter went through an error by Haslam not only on the factory BMW past but also on the Suzuki of Fabrizio.
Thus the top-10 looked as follows: Checa, Biaggi, Haga, Badovini, Haslam, Fabrizio, Sylvain Guintoli, Ruben Xaus, Joan Lascorz and Chris Vermeulen who could finally collect points in WSBK on his comeback.
Right at the beginning of the race mark Aitchinson and the wild card rider Alessandro Polita, which both were unhurt but adopted himself. After the restart was also Massimo Baiocco to the ground, remained but also intact. Jakub SMRZ had a double failure there, who had surveyed the route in turn 14.

Superbike WM in the Miller Motorsports Park/United States: 2. run

Carlos Checa dominated the second race in the Miller Motorsports Park. This time on dry track.
Photo Show: Superbike World Championship 2011 United States of Miller Motorsports Park.
(Autosport.com) Carlos Checa celebrated in Utah in the Miller Motorsports Park a stunning double victory. The Spaniard led off the second race from the start and managed a five-second lead within a short time before Leon Camier and Max Biaggi. Checa ran up to six tenths of a second faster than his challenger this per round.

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Eugene Laverty, who was restored to the middle of the race with ease from Biaggi to the line, placing it behind the lead group. The Italian was quicker than Yamaha's doing about ten kilometres per hour. Michel Fabrizio worked step by step to the fifth position and could leave this behind Marco Melandri, who was on the third position in the meantime.
The third party from the first leg, Sylvain Guintoli came before his team-mate Jakub SMRZ at the finish in this race. SMRZ started back again badly from the second position, and much to eleventh place. Then, in the struggle forward, he was stopped by Jonathan Rea. For the Czechs, it was the eighth place at the end.
Already in the second round three riders adopted are independent of each other. First, Troy Corser relegated of his BMW. In the same curve, the first attitude, threw his Honda in the dirt Ruben Xaus, but could continue. At the same time, Noriyuki Haga made long.
The BMW rider Leon Haslam was again disappointing on the road. He was the 13th place. Thus, Ayrton Badovini was the best BMW in the field. He went nine in goal before Tom Sykes ranked. Rea fought until the last corner with the Kawasaki's Sykes, but had to settle with rank 11. Joan Lascorz remained before Haslam and Maxime Berger and the wild card rider Joshua waters brought the last points.
James Toseland not took part in the second race in Utah because he had continued with the pain in his broken wrist.
Superbike WM 2011: the races at a glance

Superbike test in Australia: motorcycle catches fire (with video)

In the final Super bike tests in Australia, Jonathan Rea had to jump at 210 km/h from the motorcycle after this fire had caught. In this respect he favor of the right ring finger.

(Autosport.com) Jonathan Reas start in the Superbike World Championship start at Phillip Iceland next weekend is under doubt. The Briton crashed on Tuesday in the afternoon session of the final test in Australia at 210 km/h and had to be taken to the hospital. The 24-year-old rolled off the ring finger of the right hand here. The crash happened in curve three and on his first laps in this training.

"I am so frustrated because we had come just to race pace and everything feels really good," was the Castrol Honda Rider on record. "I was three in curve and wanted to open up the gas when I suddenly felt that the rear wheel began to swim and then I realized that the bike was", he described the Unfallhergang. May had passed to the aggregate of its CBR1000RR and distributed oil on the rear.

Rea geistesgegenwartig responded as he had noticed the fire. "Basically I had to as fast as possible down and it was unfortunately at 210 km/h, which is fast enough." "My fingers and my wrist do hurt - actually does pretty much everything I hurt - but I am still awaiting the final diagnosis." It is possible that the wrist would have taken even damage them.

Rea may not say currently, how he feel on the weekend. But the Briton is known as absolute fighters, which zusammenbei?t the teeth wherever possible only. "Of course I wanted to start this season not so, as I have left off in the last", he further said on his hand injury of Imola, with which he then there still played the race and that in Magny Cours in reference.

"I know that such things are that you do not expect and that you you can prepare not", the last year's overall fourth left to see tried it. "But this is anyone's error and we must simply hope that I can be already back soon again."

Team-mate Ruben Xaus also hopes that he will be not the Castrol Honda lone at the weekend. "I am pleased that the season for me now off you go and I hope that this will be for Johnny."

Superbike World Championship at Phillip Iceland: second run (with photo show)

The second round at Phillip Iceland won the Spaniard of Carlos Checa. Biaggi and Melandri fought for second place behind him.
Photo show to the Superbike World Championship opener in Phillip Iceland/Australia.
Motorsport-Magazin.com - Iceland Phillip was the kick-off weekend of WSBK entirely in the hands of Carlos Checa. The Spaniards decided not only the training for themselves, but also the 22-round Chase on the Australian line. With clear distance, the Ducati rider came over the finish line ahead of Max Biaggi and Marco Melandri. The two Italians dueled to almost the entire race. At the end, the reigning world champion but retained the upper hand.
The starting line for the second race of the season at Phillip Iceland won Leon Haslam. Max Biaggi put out a bad start and slipped off ranked seven. For Carlos Checa on the second position remained and Eugene Laverty started well as at the first race and was third in the first corner. Right from the first round began hard duels: Marco Melandri expressed by right in the Honda corner with Eugene Laverty. In the hairpin, then made Checa Ernst and sat down at the top. From then on, Checa put down as in the first run.
Max Biaggi ground on the leading group tried to make up from behind and fought with Joan Lascorz to the sixth position. After the successful overtaking Biaggi went right off the bat half a second faster than Checa at the top. By the battle of Troy Corser and Leon Haslam went to the second position Marco Melandri and Biaggi followed behind the third position.
The two former MotoGP riders often changed the positions, as is but Biaggi could hold good, on the second position, although he made ground on Checa Melandri could not shed but. In the seventh round of the BMW rider Troy Corser missed the braking point and slipped back to 11th place. Only a round later had to Eugene Laverty through the meadow. He found himself on the 19th position.
In the meantime be cheated Noriyuki Haga secretly, silently and softly to the fourth position, could the BMW of Haslam and the Suzuki by Michel Fabrizio not withstand but and again slipped back to sixth. After this overtaking the field attracted far apart.
Only Marco Melandri and Max Biaggi dueled two and three are in the squares. If Melandri in the infield to Biaggi could pass, the reigning world champion on the line where the Aprilia fender seemed to be the strongest bike of WSBK countered.
Biaggi also tried his luck in the run two laps to go, really succeed it not to him but. Melandri tried everything before the start and finish line pass through it, but to not make that. This is pressed Jonathan Rea, who still suffered from pain in the hand, to Leon Haslam over and won the fourth position.
Thus, Marco Melandri took his first podium finish in his second World Superbike race. Rea was four ahead of Haslam and Leon Camier, which is discreetly stole at the sixth position. Haga fell off to the seventh position, left behind but Michel Fabrizio, Tom Sykes and Ruben Xaus.
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Superbike WM 2010: the race at a glance

Superbike - track test: factory Aprilia RSV4

Is the RSV4 factory of Max Biaggi Superbike WM conquered the perfect Superbike, or tolerances in the rules is overused by Aprilia? The motorcycle track test seeks clarification.
In this article: Aprilia RSV4 factory

Rarely a race bike sparked as much controversy as the Aprilia RSV 4 factory Superbike. When the appearance on the stage of the large stroke racer derived from production aircraft in winter 2008 / 2009 saw Aprilia engineers around Chief Engineer Luigi dall' Dall'Igna facing the alleged to have made a prooftext MotoGP racer bikes which blatantly contradicted the spirit of the rules of the Superbike World Championship.

And in season the conversion of chain on spur gears as evolutions Kit camshaft control was declared 2010 as the opposition grew massively. Almost all competitors ereiferten loudly about this product of intensive study of the Superbike Regelbucher how it dall' Dall'Igna represents.

More than reason enough so the master Superbike exactly on the tooth to feel. Street super sports genes are still an idea or fooled Max Biaggi opponents on a MotoGP grenade with hardly any peculiar foam his hunt for the Superbike World Championship?

The very first impression suggests all clear. The factory Aprilia surprises with kommoder sitting position. Disappeared the typical for Max Biaggi has always been overly thick seat back which helps its extremely vorderrad-oriented style and normal grown Central Europeans in a most unnatural position as not reverse circuit preferred unlike almost all other riders Max Biaggi forces. This however was banal: we had the world champion machine applied almost still operating temperature of the German Aprilia test rider Alex Hofmann, who they on new track motor State Aragon as a reference to the new 2011er version used.

But otherwise the number three in Tricolore colors showed their character unvarnished. But is quite less awesome than the irrepressible roar of the 65-degree V engine, which squeezed hard by his Akrapovic exhaust in the 107 dB(A)-Limit of the Superbike World Championship.

Without Biaggi riding position - former Grand Prix driver Hofmann is well above 1.80 meters - the RSV4 gives still outstanding manoeuvrability and agility which would present you certainly rather close to a MotoGP power pack as a comparatively massive Superbike racing cars.

After some rounds familiarization phase but the Aprilia of Superbike world champion show shows that total less radical and pointed aligned as her older sister at the beginning of the debut season 2009. Approx. 10 HP more throughout the entire usable speed range and a torque increased by good five per cent are only the key data that sets apart the master machine from their ancestors. Actually this leads to total commodo characteristics. The significantly improved performance at comparatively low speed regions makes always reasonably good-natured load despite massive excavation urge. The imagination of the bread getting with a 221 PS racer is while a long hackneyed metaphor. But in the case of Max Biaggis factory Aprilia RSV4 again adapting meaningfulness. The v4 from the cellar to 6000 rpm speed clean pulls from the downhill S curve of the new slope of Aragon, a successful reproduction of the legendary corkscrew of Laguna Seca, and allows very well supports even the casual racing driver of the 190s Pirelli rear tyres, which harmonises well with the Ohlins suspension very quickly, to find a clean and acceptable line.

Interesting on the edge: Aprilia on most WM lines with the fastest and probably also one of the most powerful Superbikes, familiar than almost all other producers more the 190s tires rear than the heavier 200 new development of unit supplier Pirelli. Transmission increased power seems still more than enough to work. Focused on agility basic construction of the RSV4 clearly favours the support by the somewhat narrower rubber.

Similar to good-natured and yet irresistibly like pulling the v4 engine from the basement of the four-digit speeds, it runs in high areas. It is only at 15000 RPM. The electronic throttle control then makes a small program for that of the speed limit by staccato-like misfiring is reached is noticeable, which concern the whole load massively and are particularly fast lap times through. The motor rotates how many nodes you pure windest in the throttle - just constantly with 15000 RPM next, no matter very impressive.

On the over one kilometre long straight behind the Paddock of Circuito motor land Aragon the Aprilia unequivocally the impression that the output is not entirely linear. Beyond the 11000 rpm: the post goes off again so correctly.

Despite of all liveliness requires down to the last exploit the extreme of the curve but not in all walks of life. "With maximum speed of 15000 rpm I'm driving only if no other choice", world champion Max Biaggi, surprise, then "at Vollgas line or short pieces between two curves." "Normally I switch a gear, however, usually already just above of 14000 RPM higher."

The harmony of the whole package is also effectively supported by the traction control, which in its original design on the factory 250cc Aprilia/Gilera of Show 2008, with Marco Simoncelli was world champion. The pilot can intervene while driving in six steps. The real success secrets of Max Biaggi and his Technikercrew Yes mostly at his first 250cc world title on Aprilia 1994 has worked with him, are also rather in perfect use of traction control as the valve timing. And these secrets can not easily be explored by an ambitious amateur.