WSBK Misano: Max Biaggi gives himself a Brithday Present and Wins

Three riders, two on factory bikes and one on a privateer Ducati, and the sum of the age of all three riders adds up to 116, but veterans Max Biaggi, Carlos Checa and Troy Corser, certainly didn’t show they have intention in slowing down in Race 1 at Misano Adriatico, but it was Max Biaggi who cruised to his seventh victory of the season.

Poleman Troy Corser took the lead of the race, but he had Max Biaggi and Carlos Checa constantly on his tail for two thirds of the race until the Aprilia rider, on the 17th lap passed him and then would never relinquish the lead to the finish line.

Corser running second tried to catch Biaggi, but an error two laps later let Carlos Checa through and the Austrialian with his tires fading could only finish in third.
Leon Haslam who is Biaggi’s closest rival in the standings could only finish in eighth, and this gave the Aprilia Alitalia rider and advantage of 32 points in the overall standings.
Fourth went to Michel Fabrizio who seemed to be able to stay with the front runners, but slowly started to fade and when he started lowering his lap times, running almost the same times as Corser, it would to be too late and would finish 4.

9s from Biaggi.
Sylvain Guintoli took fifth, his best result since the Phillip Island round while Leon Camier after making some solid passes on Noriyuki Haga and Cal Crutchlow came in sixth.
Crutchlow lost his front in lap 5 and low sided into a DNF.
Haga took the seventh spot, followed by Haslam and Shane Byrne who overtook James Toseland in the final laps to take ninth and letting his fellow countryman to close out the top ten.
Privateers Luca Scassa and Lorenzo Lanzi, were 11th and 12th respectively, while Jonathan Rea could only finish in 13th with his Honda continuing to have a bad case of chattering and team mate Max Neukirchner followed him in 14th, while Tom Sykes finished in 15th.
WSBK Misano Race 1 Results:01- Max Biaggi – Aprilia Alitalia Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – 24 laps 38′59.
31902- Carlos Checa – Althea Racing – Ducati 1198 – + 0.
38703- Troy Corser – BMW Motorrad Motorsport – BMW S1000RR – + 0.
82204- Michel Fabrizio – Ducati Xerox Team – Ducati 1198 – + 4.
91105- Sylvain Guintoli – Team Suzuki Alstare – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 5.
91606- Leon Camier – Aprilia Alitalia Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 8.
65807- Noriyuki Haga – Ducati Xerox Team – Ducati 1198 – + 11.
87208- Leon Haslam – Team Suzuki Alstare – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 11.
90709- Shane Byrne – Althea Racing – Ducati 1198 – + 16.
49010- James Toseland – Yamaha Sterilgarda Team – Yamaha YZF R1 – + 18.
45811- Luca Scassa – Supersonic Racing Team – Ducati 1198 – + 18.
64612- Lorenzo Lanzi – DFX Corse – Ducati 1198 – + 19.
31513- Jonathan Rea – HANNspree Ten Kate Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 25.
40514- Max Neukirchner – HANNspree Ten Kate Honda – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 31.
67115- Tom Sykes – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 39.
65816- Chris Vermeulen – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 48.
13717- Roger Hayden – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 56.
31618- Federico Sandi – Gabrielli Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 56.
66719- Matteo Baiocco – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX 10R – + 57.
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