|
BIAGGI TAKES DOUBLE PODIUM
|
BIAGGI TAKES DOUBLE PODIUM
September 9, 2007
Team Suzuki Press Office - September 9, 2007.
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Max Biaggi took podiums in both
24-lap World
Superbike races at the Eurospeedway Lausitz today with second and third
places.
Yukio Kagayama was unable to take part due to a hand injury sustained
yesterday: His
wrist was badly swollen this morning so he went to the Clinica Mobile
this morning
for a check-up. X-rays of his right wrist revealed that he had a
fracture of his
fifth metacarpal and so was unable to race.
Troy Bayliss (Ducati) and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha) led the charge in the
first race,
but later on Haga took advantage of his opponent's tyre problems and
pulled away
finishing the clear winner 11 seconds ahead of Biaggi.
Bayliss and Haga once again charged off into the distance at the start
of race two
but this time Bayliss was in no mood to surrender: He took the chequered
flag just
over a second ahead of Haga with Biaggi third and series leader James
Toseland
(Honda) fourth.
Max Biaggi - Race 1: 2nd, Race 2: 3rd:
"It is always good to be on the podium though I'm a little disappointed
that I
didn't finish higher up in race two. It was a much faster race and the
two guys in
front kept up a better pace and I could not catch them. After two days
of weather
that was not so good, it was a relief that it didn't rain today. Our
set-up for the
dry wasn't so bad but maybe it wasn't quite as good as Bayliss or Haga
today. I had
a few little problems with the bike missing gears a couple of times and
so I
modified my riding to get round the problem. Both my starts today were
not so bad
but once the I lost touch with the leader in race one and the two of
them in race
two, it was too late."
WSB Results:
Race 1:1 Haga (J-Yamaha), 2 Max Biaggi (I-Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra),
3 Corser
(Aus-Yamaha), 4 Bayliss (Aus-Ducati), 5 Rolfo (I-Honda), 6 Laconi
(F-Kawasaki), 7
Nieto (E-Kawasaki), 8 Lanzi (I-Ducati), 9 Toseland (GB-Honda), 10
Muggeridge
(Aus-Honda).
Race 2: 1 Bayliss, 2 Haga, 3 Max Biaggi (I-Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra),
4 Toseland,
5 Corser, 6 Xaus (E-Ducati), 7 Rolfo. 8 Nieto, 9 Neukirchner (D-Suzuki),
10
Muggeridge.
Championship Points:1 Toseland 375, 2 Haga 334, 3 Max Biaggi (I-Alstare
Suzuki
Corona Extra) 322, 4 Bayliss 296, 5 Corser 254, 6 Xaus 177, 7 Lanzi 173,
8 Rolfo
166, 9 Neukirchner 130. 10 Yukio Kagayama (J-Alstare Suzuki Corona
Extra) 116.
SUPERSTOCK 1000:
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Xavier Simeon spent the whole
14-lap
Superstock 1000 FIM Cup race in agony but defied the pain to take fifth
place.
The problem with his left ankle once again flared up and after a couple
of laps he
was struggling to maintain his place and concentration to finish less
than
two-and-a-half seconds behind the race winner Didier Van Keymeulen
(Yamaha).
Xavier Simeon- 5th:
"That was a very hard and difficult race. After a short time my ankle
really started
hurting and it was hard to keep concentration. On the straights I had to
take my
left leg right off the footpeg, just so that I could change gear.
Yesterday the
conditions were wet and we weren't going so fast and we all had to ride
much more
smoothly so it was not such a big problem, but today was dry and we were
riding much
harder and faster and that meant that I had to work my leg a lot more.
It hurt a lot
but I was determined to keep going as best I could. In the end, I don't
think that
fifth place is so bad, especially considering that I was not so far off
from the
leaders."
Superstock 1000 Results: 1 Van Keymeulen (B-Yamaha), 2 Canepa (I-Ducati),
3 Corti
(I-Yamaha), 4 Aitchison (Aus-Suzuki), 5 Xavi Simeon (B-Alstare Suzuki
Corona Extra),
6 Tode (D-Honda).
Championship Points:1 Baiocco 136, 2 Xavi Simeon (B-Alstare Suzuki
Corona Extra)
127, 3 Canepa 125, 4 Aitchison 121, 5 Corti 112, 6 Dionisi 93.
For more stories about Yukio Kagayama, click here.For photos, click here
For more stories about Xavier Simeon, click here.For photos, click here
For more stories about Max Biaggi, click here.For photos, click here
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Max Biaggi took podiums in both
24-lap World
Superbike races at the Eurospeedway Lausitz today with second and third
places.
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Max Biaggi will start tomorrow's
pair of
Superbike World Championship races from the second row of the grid after
qualifying
fifth quickest in a ???Wet Superpole' session at Eurospeedway Lausitz.
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Yukio Kagayama ended the first day
of
qualifying at the Eurospeedway Lausitz with the third fastest time,
despite
suffering with sore ligaments in his right knee after his crash at
Brands Hatch.
|
|
