MNC analysis of World Superbike in Australia
Beyond the points distributed, each race weekend brings its share of remarkable feats and poor performances, good and bad surprises. In its analysis, Site reviews the highlights of the WSBK in Phillip Island.
The Fireblades, not that blunt ?
Newcomer to World Superbike, Nicky Hayden brilliantly succeeded in his baptism of fire. After narrowly finishing his first race with a front tire on which "there was literally no gum left on it", the famous n ° 69 passed away from a first podium on Sunday.
In the magnificent MG sequence, the Kentucky rookie was beaten as much by the surprising Giugliano as by his own traction control, too careful for the American pilot’s taste. Formerly appreciated for its long drifts when accelerating, will Nicky bring skiing up to date? ?
The excellent performances of the Honda riders in Australia must however be confirmed on circuits which are more demanding of motorcycles. The next meeting, scheduled on the Thai circuit of Buriram will represent a good first "test".
The same will be true for Leon Camier, remarkable Saturday afternoon riding the only MV Agusta (7th to 11 seconds behind Rea), but not at all noticed by viewers. Cruel enough, it’s Sunday that we saw more of n ° 2 on the screen…
Betrayed by her sublime but capricious F4, "Lionne" made a passage in the pits and came out a few minutes later. Invited by his team to return definitively to his box in order to "analyze the data acquired by telemetry"," Kamir "could not repeat his authentic exploit of the day before.
Official MV Agusta asks the Varese plant to take more horses out of their 4-cylinder to be able to follow the leading men. But engineers must take into account the limit of six engines allocated per driver and per season … Not easy !
Finally, the BMW Althea and Milwaukee went completely unnoticed this weekend, as did the Aprilia IodaRacing. Winner of the second round last year, Leon Haslam – entered this season in BSB on Kawasaki – did not hide his frustration at not having driven this weekend at Phillip Island…
"Well done Jonathan Rea, great start", posted Sunday on his official Twitter account the 2010 vice-world champion."I must admit I’m a little disgusted that I wasn’t there, it seemed so fun".
His former Honda Ten teammate Kate Jonathan Rea answered him immediately "We missed you in the group buddy! And then, Ava (Leon’s daughter, NDLR) jakey misses a lot (Johnny’s boy)!"The World Superbike is a big family, that we can’t wait to meet again. It will be in two weeks, in Thailand, and on MNC of course: stay tuned !
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