VIDEO: World Superbike Race 2
Incredible drama as Jonathan Rea (Honda WSBK) wins race-2 at Donington Park
Incredible drama as Jonathan Rea (Honda WSBK) wins race-2 at Donington Park
Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) took his second race win of the season after an incident-strewn race at Donington. On the first corner Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) and Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) touched and Checa went down, taking out Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert Ducati) and Checa’s team-mate Davide Giugliano.
A truly historic 1-2 for the BMW Motorrad Motorsport Team saw Marco Melandri win a 23-lap opening race at Donington with his team-mate Leon Haslam only 0.728 seconds behind.
In Superpole 3 Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) went over 0.3 seconds faster than the existing track best with a 1 minute 27.716 seconds lap that gave him his fourth Tissot-Superpole win of 2012. Close behind was his fellow Englishman Leon Haslam.
Hickman has good knowledge of the Donington circuit, having raced there many times before in the British Superbike Championship. The 25-year-old from Louth in Lincolnshire will join the team this evening to get acquainted with his new crew and the Yoshimura powered Suzuki GSX-R. He will be replacing Hopkins for this weekend after the Anglo-American broke a bone in his right foot and injured his left hip at Monza last weekend.
Crescent FIXI Suzuki’s John Hopkins will be forced to miss this weekend’s World Superbike race at Donington in England due to the injuries he sustained in a high-speed crash last time out at Monza.
The 2012 eni FIM Superbike World Championship continues its first European leg of races this coming weekend at the Donington Park circuit in the UK, where it all began back in 1988, the year of the very first round of the production-based series.
Tom Sykes (Kawasaki) wins the only race of the day, a contest halted at half race distance.
Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) won the only race of the day at Monza, a contest which was halted at half race distance due to a fresh fall of rain, meaning that half points were awarded.
Sylvain Guintoli (Team Effenbert Liberty Racing) made the best of the continuing difficult and changeable track conditions at Monza to record his first ever Tissot-Superpole win.