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Nürburgring WSS: Davies heads all-British podium
Source: | Motorcycle Sport | World Superbikes - Sunday, 4th September 2011, 16:16 GMTChaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO) rode well to defend his first place finish at the Nürburgring ahead of James Ellison (Bogdanka PTR Honda), who challenged for the lead and finished just 0.091 seconds behind Davies, whilst Parkalgar Honda rider Sam Lowes... Read article
Foret re-emerges to head Davies in WSS qualifying
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Saturday, 3rd September 2011, 15:50 GMTJust under a tenth of a second separated points leader Chaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO) from poleman Fabien Foret (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) who will start from pole for the second time this season. The Frenchman set a time of 1'59.258, which was more than one second slower than Cal Crutchlow's 2010 best lap. The front row is completed by two fellow Brits Gino Rea (Step Racing Team Honda) and Sam Lowes (Parkalgar Honda). Row 2 contains two Italians, with Massimo Roccoli (Lorenzini by Leoni Kawasaki) ahead of Luca Scassa (Yamaha ParkinGO), together with James Ellison (Bodganka PTR Honda) and David Salom (Kawasaki Motocard.com). Read article
Lowes takes the top slot in Supersport Q1
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Friday, 2nd September 2011, 13:20 GMTParkalgar Honda's Sam Lowes powered to the top of the timesheets after the first World Supersport qualifying session with the time of 1 minute 59.771 seconds. Lowes, the only rider to dip under the two minute mark, was quickest ahead of points leader and fellow Brit Chaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO). Spain's David Salom (Kawasaki Motocard.com) was up at the front for much of the session, and finished third while his Motocard.com team-mate Broc Parkes was in sixth. The two Kawasaki machines sandwiched the Harms Benjan Racing Honda of Robbin Harms in fourth and the Hannspree Ten Kate version in fifth. Title contender Fabien Foret (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) could only manage seventh place, while for the Italians it was a day to forget with Massimo Roccoli (Lorenzini by Leoni Kawasaki) down in tenth and Luca Scassa (Yamaha ParkinGO) one place behind. There was an incredible incident for Roberto Tamburini (Bike Service R.T. Yamaha), who was taken out under braking by his team-mate Luca Marconi. The latter was taken to hospital with a broken right collarbone and for further checks. Read article
Sam Lowes’ season so far
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Thursday, 1st September 2011, 8:04 GMTIn his first year as a WSS rider in a top team Sam Lowes (Parkalgar Honda) has had his ups and downs, challenging for wins on occasion then getting injured or suffering the odd technical issue with his package. As reigning British Supersport Champion he made a real splash even at the first round, leading for much of the race and then finishing on the podium first time out. Since then he has had a further two podiums and he now sits sixth overall. We asked him about his first full-time WSS year in a top team like Parkalgar Honda. How has your first year at this level turned out so far? "I knew it was always going to be difficult coming into the World Championship after the British Championship but obviously I knew the team and bike were capable of winning races. I knew I had to learn so much. It was good to get to Australia for the first round and see where we were at, so to be pushing for a podium and victory first time out was fantastic. It has been like that ever since. I think I have done myself proud in my riding, maybe made a couple more mistakes than other riders. It is my first year, so maybe there is a little bit more experience needed. As far as the level of riding goes in the championship I have been mega-impressed with the class of riders." Has it been a surprise that the top challenging Honda rider has changed so much over the year so far, and that some of the more experienced riders on any bike have not been as consistent as normal? "Obviously every year is different. The Yamaha started off really strong and to be consistent was going to be the key. I knew that would be extremely difficult for me, what with different tracks to learn. Fabien Foret got unlucky at Phillip Island and got injured but he showed good form and he has come back fantastically well in recent races. I am surprised that some other riders have not been as consistent and have been making a few mistakes. It has been a bit weird and it's not been a normal Supersport year, but it certainly has not been a bad one!" You had previous experience of the single bike rule, so how has it worked out in WSS for the first time this year? "I have had a season of that and it is not a bad thing. It does not make a massive difference. Maybe trying a real big set-up change is difficult on a race weekend now. Last year it did not affect me at all but this year maybe it would have helped me to have two bikes, just to learn tracks a little bit more. Having just one bike does keep costs down and it means you have to chill out at the beginning of the sessions a bit more and be a bit more clever about it. It makes you think about it a little bit more and that cannot be a bad thing. It's a good thing because it keeps the costs down considering the times we are in at the minute." Read article
So Super Supersport in 2011
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Thursday, 25th August 2011, 14:42 GMTChaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO) holds a strong advantage in the championship standings in Supersport after the mid-season break, as befits a rider who has won four races of the eight so far. Despite his remarkable form the statistics and the evidence of all who have watched World Supersport is that the class has undergone a resurgence not only in the numbers of regular participants (more than in 2010, with over 30 riders from 16 different nations) but also in the number of potential podium men. Yamaha, Kawasaki and Honda riders have all won races. Davies' team- mate Luca Scassa has two victories to his credit on his R6, Provec Motocard.com rider Broc Parkes has proved that he can win on the ZX-6R and the first of a large number of potential winning Honda CBR600RR riders to have jumped up to the top is Gino Rea (Step Racing). With no official factory Triumph effort this year the results for the Daytona 675 have not quite kept pace with the main Japanese bikes but the other facts and figures about the class show it is wide one, be you a privateer or a fully supported rider. Behind the big four winners we have had another three who have already claimed podium finishes. David Salom, Broc Parkes' team-mate, is second overall after an incredibly consistent season, which has included his first two podiums in this class. Three points behind the Spanish rider is a WSS legend, Fabien Foret, who has come close to his first 2011 win, despite some serious injury worries at the start of the year riding for the perennially successful Hannspree Ten Kate team. The veteran rider has posted five podiums from eight races. British riders have shown strongly again, with Sam Lowes (Parkalgar Honda) a real threat from the very first race. His three 2011 podiums place him sixth right now, despite his own mid-season injury worries. As well as the officially supported and best backed teams even relative low spending efforts have been able to take advantage of the single bike rule and other cost saving exercises put in place for 2011. Robbin Harms and his Harms Benjan Honda team have been threatening the podiums all year, and for a long time were the best CBR squad in the results standings. Experienced rider Massimo Roccoli overcame some tough early times to make himself a real thorn in the side of the top few on his Lorenzini by Leoni Kawasaki. A fourth and a fifth in two of the last three races have put him into the top ten, one place behind another top privateer from Italy, Roberto Tamburini (Yamaha Bike Service RT). And even as the season has worn on a privateer like Tamburini can become even more competitive, not less, setting a fifth, a fifth and a fourth in the past three races. And the fight for top ten places every weekend? That has become a frantic battle once more, with freight trains of riders chasing around in equally matched machinery, all vying for season best or career best results. In 2011 WSS has split the atom of competitiveness again in a big way, with several high energy particles capable of strong reactions, all of which makes Davies' amazing consistency and current dominance all the more remarkable in such an open class of racing. Four rounds left, all of which should be as hard fought as ever. Read article
Pirelli Notes from Silverstone
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Tuesday, 2nd August 2011, 12:53 GMTGiorgio Barbier, Racing Director Pirelli Moto, sums up the ninth round of the 2011 Superbike World Championship from the point of view of the championship's official one-make tyre supplier. Facing radically different conditions compared to Donington Park's race in March just 100 km north, Pirelli was prepared for the Silverstone Circuit with over 4800 tyres to support 140 riders. For SBK, these options consisted of an SC1, SC2 and a development mid-soft front tyre, along with an SC0 and intermediate rear. Superpole started off the weekend with BSB Championship rider and wildcard J. Hopkins (Suzuki) setting a new track record of 2'04.041 on Pirelli's Diablo Superbike qualifying tyres. During R1 of SBK with a racing surface of 31°C, the mid-soft ‘B' front and soft ‘B' rear was the popular tyre choice, with Laverty on a slightly harder SC1 rear tyre, Camier, Biaggi and Haslam on the SC2 front, and Haga and Guintoli on the SC1 front. Technical problems left both factory Aprilias out of podium contention, but race-winner Checa (Ducati) and the two Yamahas of Laverty and Melandri gave the fans a real race, rounded out by Hopkins (Suzuki) in the top 5. R2 of SBK saw a nearly identical result, with the factory Aprilias trailing the podium and Biaggi recording the Best Lap of 2'05.5. Supersport was equally productive, with development work on Diablo Supercorsa SC0's progressing well, having seen Yamaha, Kawasaki and Honda finish on the podium and only a 2.5 second gap amongst them. Infront Motor Sports' contract with Pirelli as Official Tyre Supplier has been renewed through the end of 2015, confirming Pirelli's 8 years of continued tyre development for faster , closer and more entertaining racing. Pirelli BEST LAP Awards: SBK Race 1 - Carlos Checa (Althea Racing), 2'06.045 (Lap 5)SBK Race 2 - Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia Racing), 2'05.525 (Lap 2)Total BEST LAP (SBK): Checa C. (Althea Racing): 6, Biaggi M. (Aprilia Alitalia Racing): 5, Melandri M. (Yamaha World Superbike): 3, Haga N. (PATA Racing Team Aprilia): 1, Sykes T. (Kawasaki Racing Team Superbike): 1, Camier L. (Aprilia Alitalia Racing): 1, Fabrizio M. (Team Suzuki Alstare): 1 WSS - Robbin Harms (Harms Benjan Racing Team), 2'09.771 (Lap 2)Total BEST LAP (WSS): Foret F. (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda): 2, Lowes S. (Parkalgar Honda): 2, Scassa L. (Yamaha ParkinGO Team): 1, Davies C. (Yamaha ParkinGO Team): 1, Rea G. (Step Racing Team): 1, Harms R. (Harms Benjan Racing Team): 1 Stk1000 - Danilo Petrucci (Barni Racing Team), 2'08.796 (Lap 2)Stk600 - Romain Lanusse (MRS Yamaha Racing France), 2'13.468 (Lap 3) Read article
Davies takes popular home win
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Sunday, 31st July 2011, 13:15 GMTChaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO) held off the race long challenge of David Salom (Kawasaki Motocard.com) to take his fourth win of the season and extend his championship lead to 42 points. Fabien Foret (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) finished third, 2.449 seconds from Davies, but the late challenge of the luckless Gino Rea (Step Racing Honda) ended in the gravel as he ran on trying to pass Foret, and he finished 11th. Roberto Tamburini (Bike Service R.T. Yamaha) put memories of a big Silverstone crash last year behind him with fourth place, one position up on Massimo Roccoli (Lorenzini by Leoni Kawasaki). Broc Parkes, Salom's team-mate was sixth. Sam Lowes (Parkalgar Honda) fell after a collision early in the race with Rea. Davies is now leading the championship with 141 points, Salom is second on 104, Foret has 101 and Parkes is fourth with 95. Read article
Salom takes pole for Kawasaki Motocard.com
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Saturday, 30th July 2011, 16:31 GMTDavid Salom of the Spanish Kawasaki Motocard.com team took his second pole position of the year on his ZX-6R machine. The young Spaniard got the better of British charger Sam Lowes (Parkalgar Honda) by three-tenths of a second. The front row of the grid will be completed by the promising French talent Florian Marino (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) and Brno winner Gino Rea (Step Racing Team Honda). Championship leader Chaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO) could only manage eighth quickest time, right behind two of his closest rivals Fabien Foret (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) and Australian Broc Parkes (Kawasaki Motocard.com). The best of the Italians are Roberto Tamburini (Bike Service R.T. Yamaha) and erstwhile points leader Luca Scassa (Yamaha ParkinGO). Read article
2011 Silverstone World Supersport QP2 Result: Salom Takes Pole From Lowes
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - Saturday, 30th July 2011, 16:24 GMTDavid Salom has claimed his second pole position of the season at Silverstone, following up his previous pole at the first race of the year in Phillip Island. The Motocard.com Kawasaki rider took over the top spot at the halfway mark of the session, then cut another four tenths off his time to secure pole. Salom held off a challenge from Parkalgar Honda's Sam Lowes, the young Englishman forced to settle for 2nd, while Hannspree Ten Kate's Florian Marino and yesterday's provisional polesitter Gino Rea round out the front row. Robbin Harms heads up row two, ahead of Fabien Foret and Broc Parkes, while ParkinGO Yamaha's Chaz Davies will start from 8th, and completes the second row. Combined results of QP1 and QP2: Race Details 2011 read more Read article
2011 Silverstone World Supersport FP2 Result: Lowes Takes Control
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - Saturday, 30th July 2011, 9:42 GMTSam Lowes dominated the second session of free practice for the World Supersport class at Silverstone, taking an early lead and topping the timesheets by over eight tenths of a second. The Parkalgar Honda rider ended well ahead of a pair of Hannspree Ten Kate bikes, youngster Florian Marino a tenth quicker than his veteran teammate Fabien Foret. Motocard.com Kawasaki's Broc Parkes was 4th fastest, just ahead of Step Racing's Gino Rea. Championship leader Chaz Davies found some improvement, posting the 7th best time, but still nearly 1.3 seconds off Lowes. Results: Race Details 2011 read more Read article
