WSBK Valencia Heat 2 – Nitro Nori Haga wins by 0.025s!

After Race 2 at the Ricardo Tormo race track in Valencia was red flagged following the big crash of Kawasaki rider Simon Andrews and Vittorio Iannuzzo on his Squadra Corse Honda, the second heat would reserve a big surprise with Noriyuki Haga taking a stunning victory.

The Xerox Ducati rider took the turnabout win despite being down on the aggregate chart and pushing back both Carlos Checa and Max Biaggi who finished in aggregrate timing second and third place respectively, but on the finish line it was Biaggi 2nd and Checa 3rd.

Suzuki Alstare’s Leon Haslam, winner of Race 1 could only finish fourth and his worst result so far this season and 10 seconds behind on aggregate time and over two seconds ahead Jonathan Rea who took fifth place.
Sylvain Guintoli was sixth in the race and James Toseland who took and excellent 3rd place in Race 1 could manage only a seventh spot ahead of Shane Byrne, and Cal Crutchlow with Jakub Smrz closing out the top 10.
Leon Haslam still leads the championship going into round 4 with 123 points, 17 points ahead of Max Biaggi.

Checa is third with 80 points, one more than Noriyuki Haga.
Race 2 – Heat 2 Aggregate Results:1 41 Haga N.
(JPN) Ducati 1098R 36′51.
500 (149,95 kph)2 7 Checa C.
(ESP) Ducati 1098R 0.
0253 3 Biaggi M.
(ITA) Aprilia RSV4 1000 F.
0.
2994 91 Haslam L.
(GBR) Suzuki GSX-R1000 10.
1005 65 Rea J.
(GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 12.
8116 50 Guintoli S.
(FRA) Suzuki GSX-R1000 13.
4597 52 Toseland J.
(GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 14.
8458 67 Byrne S.
(GBR) Ducati 1098R 14.
8619 35 Crutchlow C.
(GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 15.
20210 96 Smrz J.
(CZE) Ducati 1098R 18.
07111 111 Xaus R.
(ESP) BMW S1000 RR 25.
17912 11 Corser T.
(AUS) BMW S1000 RR 26.
11613 57 Lanzi L.
(ITA) Ducati 1098R 30.
18914 99 Scassa L.
(ITA) Ducati 1098R 30.
38715 66 Sykes T.
(GBR) Kawasaki ZX 10R 35.
74116 88 Pitt A.
(AUS) BMW S1000 RR 43.
24417 76 Neukirchner M.
(GER) Honda CBR1000RR 43.
54018 123 Resch R.
(AUT) BMW S1000 RR 47.
14519 95 Hayden R.
(USA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 48.
50220 15 Baiocco M.
(ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 51.
838RET 84 Fabrizio M.
(ITA) Ducati 1098RRET 2 Camier L.
(GBR) Aprilia RSV4 1000 F.
RET 17 Andrews S.
(GBR) Kawasaki ZX 10RRET 31 Iannuzzo V.
(ITA) Honda CBR1000RR