Lorenzo Alfonsi
Silverstone Facts & Figures
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Tuesday, 3rd August 2010, 10:55 GMTSuperbike • At Silverstone Cal Crutchlow won his first race, recorded the double and both fastest laps, entering the elite of twenty riders who have been able to record such a feat. The list is led by Troy Corser and Carl Fogarty, with six races dominated in similar fashion. Before Silverstone the last time it was recorded was last year at Donington (Ben Spies). • Cal also recorded his tenth front row start: in his short Superbike career he has never qualified lower than ninth.• For the fourteenth and fifteenth time in Superbike history the podium was locked out by riders coming from the same country, in this case the United Kingdom. It happened also this year in Assen in both races. With six total podiums in two races, the UK goes over the 300 total podium mark, at 304, moving closer to Australia, which leads with 329.• With the win in race one, Yamaha reached 200 Superbike podium presences, they are third in the all-time rankings behind Ducati (447) and Honda (295). Supersport • Tenth win for Eugene Laverty. He is at his sixth season win, only two shy of the season record of eight set by Kenan Sofuoglu in 2007;• Kenan Sofuoglu scored his fifteenth fastest lap, equalling Sebastien Charpentier at the top of the all-time chart. The Turkish rider is on his thirteenth straight podium, and also in this he has equalled the absolute record set by Charpentier from Brands Hatch 2004 to Assen 2005;• 80th Supersport win for Honda;• Maiden podium for Gino Rea: he is the sixth youngest rider to climb on the podium at 20 years, 11 months and 13 days. The record belongs to Yoann Tiberio, who was 19 years 5 months and 21 days old when he won in Monza in 2006. Superstock 1000 • Ayrton Badovini is mathematically champion with his seventh season win and for the fourth time he managed to score pole, win and fastest lap;• Thanks to Ayrton's performances, BMW reached Yamaha at the longest sequence of wins, seven. Yamaha posted their streak in 2004 with Lorenzo Alfonsi (3 wins) and Gianluca Vizziello (4);• Badovini's one was the 60th win by an Italian rider in Superstock 1000. Italy leads the chart in front of Great Britain (18) and Belgium (11). Read article
Statistics: Misano
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Friday, 25th June 2010, 6:53 GMT• Matteo Baiocco retired in both races in 2009. He raced here three times in the Superstock 1000 championship, winning the 2007 edition in front of Xavier Simeon and Ilario Dionisi, while in the other two cases he didn't manage to reach the top-10. He didn't have any more luck either in the Supersport class from 2003 to 2005, when he finished sixteenth in his first race and then retired twice;• Max Biaggi was out of the first races both in 2007 and 2008, finishing on the podium in the second ones. Last year a low-key performance with a thirteenth and a tenth. Max was the poleman of the 1993 race of the now defunct 250 cc championship;• Shane Byrne came close to winning the first race last year, beaten by Spies and by a bad choice for the bike swap as the track was drying. He was sixth in race 2;• Carlos Checa has always scored points in Misano, his best result is a fifth in race 1, 2008 and race 2 last year. In 1993, at his fourth race in the 250 cc championship he started 30th and finished 20th;• Troy Corser among the active riders is the most consistent in Misano with fifteen podium finishes out of twenty-six races, five poles and two wins, obtained in the 2000 edition. His last podium here was scored in 2008, third in race 1. Last year he didn't manage to reach the points, retiring in race 1 and finishing 19th in race 2;• Cal Crutchlow won the 2009 Supersport race starting from second in grid and posting the fastest lap;• Last year Michel Fabrizio was able to make up for a poor record in Misano: in his first six races here he retired four times, while in the two races of 2009 was in the podium twice: third and second. In Superstock 1000 he won the 2003 race;• Noriyuki Haga has started twenty superbike races in Misano, but has never been able to win. Four podium placements for the Japanese, the last one in race 2 last year, third;• Leon Haslam obtained his best result in Misano in the second 2004 race, fifth, he came back here last year ending twelfth and eighth;• Vittorio Iannuzzo's last points scoring finish here was in 2006, race 1, with a fourteenth place. His best result was a seventh in the second 2003 race. He was second in the 2002 Superstock 1000 race behind Gianluca Vizziello and third in the 2005 edition. He enjoyed little luck in the Supersport class, an eighth is his best result (1999) out of five races run;• In his first eight races run in Misano, Lorenzo Lanzi always finished in the top-10, but last year he didn't manage to do better than 19th and 18th. His best result came in the first 2005 race: fifth. In the 2003 Superstock race he finished third behind Michel Fabrizio and Riccardo Chiarello;• Max Neukirchner was absent in the 2009 edition, but in 2007 and 2008 he always finished in the top-10, winning the first 2008 race;• Broc Parkes in 2009 was coming back to superbikes after an absence of six years and was seventeenth in both races. In Supersport climbed three times on the podium, with a second place behind Anthony West in the 2007 race;• Jonathan Rea won here his maiden Superbike race last year in front of the works Ducati pair Fabrizio-Haga. He climbed on the podium also in the 2008 Supersport race;• Luca Scassa finished in 20th the second race last year on his Superbike debut, he was third in the 2006 Superstock race behind Alex Polita and Ayrton Badovini;• Jakub Smrz has a good feeling with the Misano track, since he was able to record here his maiden fastest lap in 2008 and last year his maiden pole, breaking the record string of Ben Spies. Last year his best race results: fourth in both races;• Last year Tom Sykes finished both races inside the top-10: eighth and seventh, at his debut in Misano;• James Toseland ran fourteen races here, climbing on the podium twice in second: in 2003, race 1 and 2006, race 1. In MotoGP he was sixth in 2008 and tenth last year;• Chris Vermeulen was second behind Regis Laconi in both 2005 races, then he went to MotoGP, when he was second again behind Casey Stoner in the 2007 race;• Ruben Xaus obtained three wins in Misano, he is second amongst the all-time winners of the Italian track behind Troy Bayliss (6 wins). From 2003 to 2008 he always finished in the top-10, while last year he recorded a fourteenth and a sixteenth. OTHER NOTES ON THE MISANO RACES • In the last four races run here four different manufacturers have won the race: Suzuki with Neukirchner in 2008, race 1, Ducati in race 2 with Xaus, Yamaha with Spies in 2009 race 1 and Honda with Rea in race 2;• Kawasaki (1994 race 1, Scott Russell) and Aprilia (2000 double by Corser) have also won at Misano, so only BMW among the current manufacturers have missed out on the win here;• Ducati won 26 races out of 36 in Misano, unbeaten from 2001 to 2006 race 1. Recently they won three of the last six races and in 2009 the best-placed Ducati was second in both races. MILESTONES IN MISANO 1994 - First and only fastest lap for Piergiorgio Bontempi;1995 - First win and first fastest lap for Mauro Lucchiari, 50th pole position for Ducati by Carl Fogarty;1996 - First win, pole and fastest lap for John Kocinski on his first appearance in WSBK;1999 - 150th fastest lap for Ducati by Troy Corser, 100th podium placement for Carl Fogarty;2003 - 200th fastest lap for Ducati (Ruben Xaus), 50th podium appearance for Pierfrancesco Chili;2004 - First pole position for Steve Martin;2005 - 10th win for Regis Laconi;2006 - First win for Andrew Pitt in race 2;2007 - 40th career pole for Troy Corser;2008 - Troy Corser scored his 42nd pole, exactly twice as many as Fogarty and Bayliss. Maiden fastest lap for Jakub Smrz. Max Neukirchner in race 1 took a Suzuki to the win for the first time in Misano;2009 - Maiden pole for Jakub Smrz and maiden win for Jonathan Rea. SUPERSPORT FLASH DATA In Misano the following riders obtained their maiden Supersport win: Massimo Meregalli (1997), Ruben Xaus (1999), Christian Kellner (2000), Massimo Roccoli (2006). Roccoli's one is the last by an Italian rider in Misano. SUPERSTOCK 1000 FLASH DATA • First Supesrtock 1000 win for Ivan Sala (1999), Fabio Capriotti (2000), Gianluca Vizziello (2002), Lorenzo Alfonsi (2004);• Last year Maxime Berger took Honda to the top step of the podium at Misano. In the last four years four different manufacturers have won here: Suzuki in 2006 (Polita), Yamaha in 2007 (Baiocco), Ducati in 2008 (Polita) and then Honda;• Alex Polita is the only rider to have won twice in Superstock 1000 in Misano (2006 and 2008). SUPERSTOCK 600 FLASH DATA Yamaha won here in the odd years (2005, 2007 and 2009), while in the even ones the winners were Kawasaki in 2006 and Honda in 2008. Read article
Statistics from Misano
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Friday, 25th June 2010, 6:53 GMT• Matteo Baiocco retired in both races in 2009. He raced here three times in the Superstock 1000 championship, winning the 2007 edition in front of Xavier Simeon and Ilario Dionisi, while in the other two cases he didn't manage to reach the top-10. He didn't have any more luck either in the Supersport class from 2003 to 2005, when he finished sixteenth in his first race and then retired twice;• Max Biaggi was out of the first races both in 2007 and 2008, finishing on the podium in the second ones. Last year a low-key performance with a thirteenth and a tenth. Max was the poleman of the 1993 race of the now defunct 250 cc championship;• Shane Byrne came close to winning the first race last year, beaten by Spies and by a bad choice for the bike swap as the track was drying. He was sixth in race 2;• Carlos Checa has always scored points in Misano, his best result is a fifth in race 1, 2008 and race 2 last year. In 1993, at his fourth race in the 250 cc championship he started 30th and finished 20th;• Troy Corser among the active riders is the most consistent in Misano with fifteen podium finishes out of twenty-six races, five poles and two wins, obtained in the 2000 edition. His last podium here was scored in 2008, third in race 1. Last year he didn't manage to reach the points, retiring in race 1 and finishing 19th in race 2;• Cal Crutchlow won the 2009 Supersport race starting from second in grid and posting the fastest lap;• Last year Michel Fabrizio was able to make up for a poor record in Misano: in his first six races here he retired four times, while in the two races of 2009 was in the podium twice: third and second. In Superstock 1000 he won the 2003 race;• Noriyuki Haga has started twenty superbike races in Misano, but has never been able to win. Four podium placements for the Japanese, the last one in race 2 last year, third;• Leon Haslam obtained his best result in Misano in the second 2004 race, fifth, he came back here last year ending twelfth and eighth;• Vittorio Iannuzzo's last points scoring finish here was in 2006, race 1, with a fourteenth place. His best result was a seventh in the second 2003 race. He was second in the 2002 Superstock 1000 race behind Gianluca Vizziello and third in the 2005 edition. He enjoyed little luck in the Supersport class, an eighth is his best result (1999) out of five races run;• In his first eight races run in Misano, Lorenzo Lanzi always finished in the top-10, but last year he didn't manage to do better than 19th and 18th. His best result came in the first 2005 race: fifth. In the 2003 Superstock race he finished third behind Michel Fabrizio and Riccardo Chiarello;• Max Neukirchner was absent in the 2009 edition, but in 2007 and 2008 he always finished in the top-10, winning the first 2008 race;• Broc Parkes in 2009 was coming back to superbikes after an absence of six years and was seventeenth in both races. In Supersport climbed three times on the podium, with a second place behind Anthony West in the 2007 race;• Jonathan Rea won here his maiden Superbike race last year in front of the works Ducati pair Fabrizio-Haga. He climbed on the podium also in the 2008 Supersport race;• Luca Scassa finished in 20th the second race last year on his Superbike debut, he was third in the 2006 Superstock race behind Alex Polita and Ayrton Badovini;• Jakub Smrz has a good feeling with the Misano track, since he was able to record here his maiden fastest lap in 2008 and last year his maiden pole, breaking the record string of Ben Spies. Last year his best race results: fourth in both races;• Last year Tom Sykes finished both races inside the top-10: eighth and seventh, at his debut in Misano;• James Toseland ran fourteen races here, climbing on the podium twice in second: in 2003, race 1 and 2006, race 1. In MotoGP he was sixth in 2008 and tenth last year;• Chris Vermeulen was second behind Regis Laconi in both 2005 races, then he went to MotoGP, when he was second again behind Casey Stoner in the 2007 race;• Ruben Xaus obtained three wins in Misano, he is second amongst the all-time winners of the Italian track behind Troy Bayliss (6 wins). From 2003 to 2008 he always finished in the top-10, while last year he recorded a fourteenth and a sixteenth. OTHER NOTES ON THE MISANO RACES • In the last four races run here four different manufacturers have won the race: Suzuki with Neukirchner in 2008, race 1, Ducati in race 2 with Xaus, Yamaha with Spies in 2009 race 1 and Honda with Rea in race 2;• Kawasaki (1994 race 1, Scott Russell) and Aprilia (2000 double by Corser) have also won at Misano, so only BMW among the current manufacturers have missed out on the win here;• Ducati won 26 races out of 36 in Misano, unbeaten from 2001 to 2006 race 1. Recently they won three of the last six races and in 2009 the best-placed Ducati was second in both races. MILESTONES IN MISANO 1994 - First and only fastest lap for Piergiorgio Bontempi;1995 - First win and first fastest lap for Mauro Lucchiari, 50th pole position for Ducati by Carl Fogarty;1996 - First win, pole and fastest lap for John Kocinski on his first appearance in WSBK;1999 - 150th fastest lap for Ducati by Troy Corser, 100th podium placement for Carl Fogarty;2003 - 200th fastest lap for Ducati (Ruben Xaus), 50th podium appearance for Pierfrancesco Chili;2004 - First pole position for Steve Martin;2005 - 10th win for Regis Laconi;2006 - First win for Andrew Pitt in race 2;2007 - 40th career pole for Troy Corser;2008 - Troy Corser scored his 42nd pole, exactly twice as many as Fogarty and Bayliss. Maiden fastest lap for Jakub Smrz. Max Neukirchner in race 1 took a Suzuki to the win for the first time in Misano;2009 - Maiden pole for Jakub Smrz and maiden win for Jonathan Rea. SUPERSPORT FLASH DATA In Misano the following riders obtained their maiden Supersport win: Massimo Meregalli (1997), Ruben Xaus (1999), Christian Kellner (2000), Massimo Roccoli (2006). Roccoli's one is the last by an Italian rider in Misano. SUPERSTOCK 1000 FLASH DATA • First Supesrtock 1000 win for Ivan Sala (1999), Fabio Capriotti (2000), Gianluca Vizziello (2002), Lorenzo Alfonsi (2004);• Last year Maxime Berger took Honda to the top step of the podium at Misano. In the last four years four different manufacturers have won here: Suzuki in 2006 (Polita), Yamaha in 2007 (Baiocco), Ducati in 2008 (Polita) and then Honda;• Alex Polita is the only rider to have won twice in Superstock 1000 in Misano (2006 and 2008). SUPERSTOCK 600 FLASH DATA Yamaha won here in the odd years (2005, 2007 and 2009), while in the even ones the winners were Kawasaki in 2006 and Honda in 2008. Read article
Facts & Figures from Valencia
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Thursday, 8th April 2010, 13:57 GMT• Max Biaggi was able to climb onto the podium in Valencia in the second 2007 race but in all the qualifying sessions he never fared better than ninth. The Italian curiously finished four times in eighth place, three times in a row in the last three races run here. In the 500cc/MotoGP championship Biaggi always scored points out of seven starts and his best result is a second in 2004 behind Valentino Rossi. Biaggi started from pole in MotoGP in 2001 and 2002;• Three top-10 finishes out of four races run and a third place in race 2 in 2008 are the results of Carlos Checa at his home track in the World Superbike Championship, while in the 500cc/MotoGP championship he ran nine races obtaining as best result a fourth in the 2001 and 2005 editions;• Troy Corser, together with Noriyuki Haga, is the most successful winner at Valencia, with five wins, the first in 2000 and the last one in 2005. Corser however is not the leader for podium finishes, a record shared by Troy Bayliss and Haga with ten to Corser's eight, the last one obtained in 2008, race 1 in third. Corser is the absolute leader for poles and fastest laps, with four and seven;• Cal Crutchlow in the Supersport championship obtained at Valencia the first of the five wins which took him to the title last year;• Michel Fabrizio managed to climb onto the podium in Spain only at his seventh attempt, last year in race 1, when he was second behind team-mate Haga. Michel was able to repeat a podium finish in race 2 behind Haga and Spies. Last year he obtained also his best qualifying result, a fourth, his only start from the front row at the Ricardo Tormo;• The last three races run at Valencia were won by Noriyuki Haga, who won in race 2, 2008, and in both 2009 races, scoring in the latter also two fastest laps. Five wins for the Japanese rider, who has never started from pole here, and who obtained his best qualifying result last year, a third place, at his eighth race in Valencia;• Leon Haslam finished fifth in three of the four races he contested here;• The best result for Vittorio Iannuzzo came in his debut year, 2006, with a sixteenth place. In 2002 Iannuzzo posted his maiden win, pole and fastest lap in the Superstock 1000 championship. He won with a six seconds advantage over Giacomo Romanelli despite falling to eleventh in the early stages. Iannuzzo was crowned Superstock 1000 champion at the end of that year;• A win in 2008 in race 1 and two podiums in 2006 are the best results by Lorenzo Lanzi at Valencia, a track where he has always qualified in the top-10 except for his debut year, when he started thirteenth. Lanzi won the 2003 Superstock race beating Enrique Rocamora Ros and Lorenzo Alfonsi;• Good performances but also a fair share of bad luck for Max Neukirchner, who was taken down by Carlos Checa in the first 2008 race. Last year he was able to jump into the lead at the start and at the end of the races he obtained his best results in Valencia: third in race 1 and seventh in race 2. Max started from pole in 2008;• The best result for Andrew Pitt in Valencia came in the second 2005 race, when he was fifth. He didn't have much luck in the Supersport championship either, even in the year he became champion, 2008, when he was 19th starting from pole. His best result in the Supersport class is a second place behind Kenan Sofuoglu in 2007;• Jonathan Rea didn't manage to end in the top-10 in his superbike debut on the Spanish track, retiring in race 1 and finishing thirteenth in race 2 last year. In 2008 he was sixth on the grid and in the Supersport race;• Last year Luca Scassa was 18th and 24th in the Superbike races. In the Superstock 1000 championship he raced there three times with three different bikes: in 2004 he was seventh with Kawasaki, in 2005 21st with Yamaha and in 2006 fifth with MV Agusta;• Six races and no finishes in the top-10 for Jakub Smrz, whose limit seems to be the fourteenth place. The Czech rider finished fourteenth four times out of six races run here;• Tom Sykes in his Superbike debut in this track scored a seventh and a tenth in last year's races;• In his Superbike career Makoto Tamada has alternated a points finish to a retirement in Valencia: he was ninth in race 1 in 2008 and fourteenth in race 1, 2009, retiring both times in the second races. He had more luck in the MotoGP championship, when he was always in the points from 2003 to 2007, obtaining a fifth as best result in 2004;• Two wins out of fourteen starts for James Toseland on the Ricardo Tormo track: in 2004 race 1 and 2007 race 2, the years when he won the championship. He added to these two more podium finishes, in 2003 race 2 and 2004 race 2. Two front row starts: in 2003 and 2004. In his two years in the MotoGP championship he didn't manage to finish in the top-10 in this track;• Chris Vermeulen finished second behind Troy Corser in both 2005 races, starting from the same grid spot. In the MotoGP championship he managed to finish only once in the top-10 out of four races run: a sixth place in 2007;• Ruben Xaus won race 1 in 2007 and was second in both 2003 races behind team-mate Neil Hodgson. Last year he didn't manage to finish in the top-10, with a thirteenth and a sixteenth. VALENCIA RACE NOTES • Aprilia won three times here: in 2000 race 1 and a double in 2001 with Troy corser, who scored pole in both races;• BMW have yet to finish in the top-10 after the thirteenth and fifteenth places obtained last year;• Ducati have won twelve of the twenty races run in Valencia. In the last eight editions they missed the win only in 2007 race 2 (winner James Toseland, Honda) and in 2008 race 2 (Haga, Yamaha);• Only one win for Honda in Valencia, with Toseland in 2007, race 2. In the last two years the Japanese manufacturer obtained only one podium placement, with Carlos Checa, third in race 2, 2008;• Kawasaki have never won in Valencia and have obtained only two podium placements: a third with Gregorio Lavilla in 2001, race 2, and a third with Chris Walker in 2005, race 2;• The only wins by Suzuki came in the year Troy Corser was last crowned champion: 2005, when the Aussie dominated both races;• Yamaha won here only in the hands of Noriyuki Haga: in 2000 race 2 and eight years later in race 2. In the first win the winning bike was the YZF-R7, in the second the YZF-R1. Last year the only pole in Valencia, thanks to Ben Spies;• In the last three editions there have been three different manufacturers on pole: Ducati in 2007, Suzuki in 2008 and Yamaha last year;• In the last two editions the polesitter never won the race and in both cases he slid off in race 1. MILESTONES IN SPAIN • 1991: 25th fastest lap for Ducati, recorded by Doug Polen (Jarama);• 1992: (in Albacete) first win for Aaron Slight. First and only fastest lap and podium place for Daniel Amatriain; 25th podium for Fabrizio Pirovano;• 1993: (in Albacete) 100th presence in race for Fred Merkel. First pole position for Aaron Slight;• 1995: 100th fastest lap for Ducati by Pierfrancesco Chili (Albacete);• 1996: 10th win for Troy Corser (Albacete);• 1998: first pole for Noriyuki Haga (Albacete), the tenth for Yamaha;• 1999: (Albacete) 100th race start for Pierfrancesco Chili and Andreas Meklau;• 2000: 25th pole for Troy Corser;• 2001: 10th podium for Troy Bayliss;• 2002: 10th win and 25th podium for Troy Bayliss; 150th presence in race for Colin Edwards;• 2003: first front row presence for James Toseland;• 2004: first fastest lap for Garry McCoy, first podium for Steve Martin;• 2005: 100th race start for Chris Walker;• 2006: 25th win and 50th podium place for Troy Bayliss. 100th podium place for Troy Corser;• 2007: tenth win for Ruben Xaus, 150th race start for James Toseland;• 2008: first pole for Max Neukirchner, the first for a German rider, first fastest lap for Carlos Checa;• 2009: 50th fastest race lap for Noriyuki Haga, the first rider to reach this goal. Tenth podium for Max Neukirchner. SUPERSPORT FLASH DATA Only Sebastien Charpentier has been able to win more than one Supersport race at Valencia (2005 and 2006); in 2009 Yamaha won with Cal Crutchlow ending a streak of four consecutive Honda wins. SUPERSTOCK 1000 FLASH DATA Daniel Oliver is the only Spanish rider able to win a Superstock 1000 Valencia on his home track (in 2000). SUPERSTOCK 600 FLASH DATA In the last three editions Yamaha has scored pole, the win and fastest lap. IT HAPPENED IN PORTIMAO • Maiden career pole for Cal Crutchlow, the 52nd rider in history to start from the front spot. Crutchlow is the twelfth youngest at 24 years, 4 months and 27 days. The record was set in Phillip Island, 1994, by Anthony Gobert (19 years, 7 months and 25 days). The last pole by Yamaha was recorded on this same track last year by Ben Spies;• Two races into the season and Carlos Checa has already collected more front row starts than the entire 2009 season, when he started from the front only at Miller. The Spaniard also recorded his first fastest lap since the 2008 Magny Cours race;• First career double for Max Biaggi. A double win by Aprilia has been missing since the 2001 Valencia races (Troy Corser). With his two podium placements, Biaggi took his career tally to 35, reaching Ruben Xaus. The Italian also passed the goal of 1000 points accumulated (1023);• Leon Haslam scored his tenth career podium, the 36th rider in history to reach this goal;• Cal Crutchlow posted his second podium after one year and a half, when he was second in the second Donington race; Read article
