Spies draws and holds up in World Superbike !

On Saturday in the Qatari desert, the Texan Ben Spies imposed his law: Superpole, fastest lap in the race and doubled! Haga and Biaggi tried to retaliate, but the American was too strong … In Supersport, Laverty won his first race. Story.

Second Superbike race

This time, Spies takes the wheels of Haga and Biaggi from the first meters of the race. More remarkable still, behind the Aprilia, the Ducati and the Yamaha is the BMW of Corser, yet started from the fourth row: "I took one of the best starts of my career", will testify the Australian crocodile:"I saw a hole and I slipped in !"A" hole "maybe due to the departure of Smrz from the pits ?!

The n ° 11 double world champion then savored the first laps of this second round on the handlebars of his behem: "even though i knew it wasn’t going to last it was great that it happened !", he assures by placing him finally 9th of this second Qatari race.

"My biggest surprise was to see Troy 4th, I was jealous !", even launched his teammate Xaus, author of a more discreet race but nevertheless reaching 10th place, 4 hundredths behind Corser !

As in the first round, the Haga, Biaggi and Spies trio will quickly separate from the peloton led lap after lap by Corser, Sykes then Kiyonari. The Japanese, better off than in the first round, will however try to catch up with the leading group.

"We changed tires for the second race and it was much better", explained the n ° 9 of the Honda Ten Kate team. Fast and constant, Ryuichi will reduce his second and a half behind on the 3rd lap in four small tenths three laps later … but he will not go further. !

"I hoped he (Biaggi, NDLR) made a mistake and let me get on the podium, which would have been the best reward for my team, but it didn’t happen", will regret the ex-star of the British championship.

His teammate Carlos Checa is fighting for the top 10 against Laconi, Xaus and Haslam mainly. But the Spaniard also has to fight against a CBR with a jerky front end and will fail in 13th place.

"At the end of the race I lost some grip and could feel the pressure from Kiyonari", recounted Max Biaggi, delighted to be on the podium for the second time and to fight once again with the"best pilots of the moment", Haga and Spies…

But Max fought above all against Noriyuki, Ben having decided to leave them company in the 6th round: "it was a difficult race, but better than the first for me because I was able to concentrate on my trajectories", will declare Mister" Elbowz ".

Taking advantage of the superb fight opposing the Ducati n ° 41 to the Aprilia n ° 3, the Yamaha n ° 19 will have over the two Italians up to 3.8 seconds ahead, before releasing the pressure in the very last lap and win with "only" 1.5 seconds ahead !

Ben Spies won his first double in the SBK World Cup and his third consecutive victory, after that obtained at Phillip Island two weeks earlier. Who knows, without the touch of Biaggi in the first Australian round, maybe the American would have been a hit ?!

With 75 points on the clock, Spies climbed to 2nd position in the provisional standings, 10 points behind Haga who had not accustomed us to such a start to the season, generally better in the second half of the year….

Despite his fall and his 6th place in the second round, Neukirchner remains ahead of Biaggi in the general classification: the two Maxs have 40 and 38 points respectively while Leon Haslam, 11th of the two rounds of Losail, is 5th with 36 points.

Our national Regis Laconi – plagued by traction problems on his Ducati – is tied on points (30) with Jonathan Rea: they are 7th behind Tom Sykes (32) but ahead of Nakano (27) and Kagayama (25).

On the manufacturers’ side, Ducati leads the dance thanks to Haga (85 points) ahead of Yamaha (81), Honda (51), Aprilia (41), Suzuki (40), BMW (27) and Kawasaki who did not score an additional point in the second run (2).

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