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| | | World Superbike Lausitzring : Haga and Bayliss shares victories |  Written: 10/09/2007 : 16:18. Read 4019 times (3/day). | This weekend on the german track Lausitzring took place the antepenultimate event of the World Superbike championship 2007. Noriyuki Haga has won the first race and Troy Bayliss the second.
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The two Kawasaki on first row
Thanks to the rain, both bikes of the PSG1 Corse team could reach the first and second position on the grid during the final qualifying session.
Fonsi Nieto could take the pole position followed by his team mate Regis Laconi. Unfortunately they could tae advantage of these places due to the dry races of sunday.
A big deception also in the Suzuki Alstare Team as Yukio Kagayama was forced to retire from the event du to a right wirst broken metacarpial.
First race : Haga consistant, Toseland totaly off the the race...
But it was Bayliss who took the best start and also fly up front to have a significant gap until the middle pof the race.
Behind him Haga, Biaggi, Corser, Neukirchner and Xaus were trying all they can to not let the aussi go while fighting for the best position.
During this, James Toseland, currently first at the championship was losing positions after positions to end the race in 9th place.
The first third of the race done, two fall were to count on top, Neukirchner's one and Xaus, it was time for Haga to start the chase of bayliss.
Lap after lap, the japanese was catching the Ducati rider and off course in the middle of the race could finaly overtake him. Hage made it very easily as Bayliss was also slowing the pace dangerouysly for him.
The other duel of this race was between Biaggi and Corser. Alone in third position, Biaggi saw a fast Corser catching him in the last part of the race, but the Italian was strong and when he saw Corser, he was able to up his pace just enough to avoid attacks of the other Troy.
The two riders finaly catch a grip lacking Bayliss, and could finish both on the posium.
For Kawasaki, this race was just as usual, Laconi was 6th and Nieto 7th.
WSBK M.1 Lausitzring :
1- Haga N. Yamaha YZF-R1 40'02.923
2- Biaggi M. Suzuki GSX-R1000 K7
3- Corser T. Yamaha YZF-R1
4- Bayliss T. Ducati 999 F07
5- Rolfo R. Honda CBR1000RR
6- Laconi R. Kawasaki ZX-10R
7- Nieto F. Kawasaki ZX-10R
8- Lanzi L. Ducati 999 F07
9- Toseland J. Honda CBR1000RR
10- Muggeridge K. Honda CBR1000RR
11- Nakatomi S. Yamaha YZF-R1
12- Xaus R. Ducati 999 F06
13- Smrz J. Ducati 999 F05
14- Martin S. Suzuki GSX-R1000 K6
15- Tiberio Y. Honda CBR1000RR
16- Drazdak J. Yamaha YZF-R1
Second race : Bayliss revenge, and Toseland saves some important points
Troy Baymiss was very motivated after his bad first race. He could not escape like in first leg, catch by Haga. Everybody at this moment thought that the japanese will do the double, but Bayliss was able to retake his first position and finaly make a small but good gap of more than one second to secure his victory.
Third, Biaggi had a lonely race, Toseland was catching him at the end but it was impossible for the briton to make a better position than 4th.
Haga with this weekend, closes the gap with Toseland to 41 points.
WSBK Lausitzring M.2 :
1- Bayliss T. Ducati 999 F07
2- Haga N. Yamaha YZF-R1
3- Biaggi M. Suzuki GSX-R1000 K7
4- Toseland J. Honda CBR1000RR
5- Corser T. Yamaha YZF-R1
6- Xaus R. Ducati 999 F06
7- Rolfo R. Honda CBR1000RR
8- Nieto F. Kawasaki ZX-10R
9- Neukirchner M. Suzuki GSX-R1000 K6
10- Muggeridge K. Honda CBR1000RR
11- Laconi R. Kawasaki ZX-10R
12- Lanzi L. Ducati 999 F07
13- Fabrizio M. Honda CBR1000RR
14- Martin S. Suzuki GSX-R1000 K6
15- Nakatomi S. Yamaha YZF-R1
16- Smrz J. Ducati 999 F05
17- Bauer M. Honda CBR1000RR
18- Tiberio Y. Honda CBR1000RR
19- Drazdak J. Yamaha YZF-R1
Championship is always open
With only 41 points and 2 events to go (4 races), Toseland is always in a strong position but Haga is very close to the title too. Even Biaggi could wwin it.
Toseland could save some important points this time but the end of the championship will be for sure very exciting!
WSBK championship world standings :
1- J. Toseland 375
2- N. Haga 334
3- M. Biaggi 322
4- T. Bayliss 296
5- T. Corser 254
6- R. Xaus 177
7- L. Lanzi 173
8- R. Rolfo 166
9- M. Neukirchner 130
10- Y. Kagayama 116
11- R. Laconi 113
12- M. Fabrizio 112
13- F. Nieto 82
14- J. Smrz 61
15- K. Muggeridge 47
16- S. Nakatomi 47
17- J. Brookes 40
18- S. Martin 23
19- G. Bussei 11
20- V. Iannuzzo 9
21- L. Morelli 9
22- M. Borciani 8
23- A. Polita 8
24- D. Ellison 7
25- M. Sanchini 5
26- J. Drazdak 2
27- R. Pietri 2
28- C. Morales 2
29- M. Svoboda 2
30- Y. Tiberio 1
31- M. Nutt 1
32- S. Cruciani 1
33- C. Zaiser 1
Article : Aurélien Filippi
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(not translated yet) Laconi arrête la compétition
