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World Superbike race two started under a threat of rain, with teams practicing pit-lane tyre changes. Gino Rea had to start from the back of the grid after he had to pit in before the sighting lap.
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World Supersport was 20 laps of good weather and a very tight championship fight. Nacho Calero would not start the race due to a technical problem.
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WorldSBK championship standings after race 1 at Donington Park:
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World Supersport Superpole one was a busy affair as too many riders jostled for too few places.
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World Superbike race one was twenty three laps of a dry race with the sun threatening to break through the grey British sky.
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The track for World Superbike superpole one was, unlike yesterday, dry. The weather threw a few surprising names into the first session, fighting for only two places for the second session that determines the first four rows of the grid.
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In the morning's untimed session, Lucas Mahias led the Yamahas of Sandro Cortese, Federico Caricasulo and Jules Cluzel as Rafaelle De Rosa on the MV Agusta stopped it all going the Japanese marque's way fifth quickest.
Results:
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Jonathan Rea was around a second off the qualifying record and six hundredths of the race record in this morning's untiled session, with his Kawasaki teammate Tom Sykes very close behind. While Sykes was quicker in the first half of the track, Rea was the faster man in the second half. The Yamahas of Alex Lowes and Michael van der Mark were next quickest, ahead of Eugene Laverty and Chaz Davies.
Results:
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Last year's WorldSBK race winner, Jonathan Rea, guides us around a lap of Donington Park
Jonathan Rea was the man that ended Tom Sykes' winning streak at Donington Park. The reigning WorldSBK champion snapped a nine race streak for Sykes by winning Race 2 at the British round and he's excited ahead of his home round.
“Donington is a circuit of two halves,” said Rea. “Sectors 1 and 2 are very flowing, and the final sector is very stop and start. It's very difficult to find the right setup and you're always making a compromise. Sometimes I have had a setting that is great for the first half and other times I've set the bike up for the final sector. It really depends on what you need to do with the bike you have. You need to find a compromise between stability and agility but it's a very satisfying track to get right.
Last year's WorldSBK race winner, Jonathan Rea, guides us around a lap of Donington Park
Jonathan Rea was the man that ended Tom Sykes' winning streak at Donington Park. The reigning WorldSBK champion snapped a nine race streak for Sykes by winning Race 2 at the British round and he's excited ahead of his home round.
“Donington is a circuit of two halves,” said Rea. “Sectors 1 and 2 are very flowing, and the final sector is very stop and start. It's very difficult to find the right setup and you're always making a compromise. Sometimes I have had a setting that is great for the first half and other times I've set the bike up for the final sector. It really depends on what you need to do with the bike you have. You need to find a compromise between stability and agility but it's a very satisfying track to get right.
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Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes swapped places at the top again as the wet track dried out and the riders got within half a second of lap record pace. Lorenzo Savadori made a surprise appearance in provisional third place, ahead of Alex Lowes and Eugene Laverty, and the Alpaca-haired Bradley Ray, double winner at this track in British Superbike earlier in the year, was the quickest wildcard, earning himself direct access to Superpole two.
