2012 Monza Superbike World Championship round

Monza Italy Monza 5.777 4 14 4 13 Monza track map.svg Assen Donington May 6 2012 Sylvain Guintoli France 1:54.276 n/a Tom Sykes United Kingdom 1:44.707 Sam Lowes United Kingdom 1:47.601 Sam Lowes United Kingdom 2:00.653 The 2012 Monza Superbike World Championship round was the fourth round of the 2012 Superbike World Championship season and of the 2012 Supersport World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of May 4–6, 2012 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza located in Monza, Italy. Superbike Report At this round the championship held an awards ceremony marking their 25th anniversary, this however would be a round full of incident, the conditions were changeable throughout the weekend, and during a wet superpole riders were unable to make their wet tyres last more than 2 laps due to the tyres falling apart down the center due to the high speed nature of the Monza circuit. The race started dry but Mark Aitchison fell at the final turn on the warm up lap then John Hopkins and Marco Melandri, would also go down at the final turn. The race was stopped as the rain persisted and race 1 was canceled on safety grounds.http://www.crash.net/world+superbikes/news/179368/1/rain_halts_first_wsbk_race.html Rain halts first WSBK race crash.net Crash Media Group 6 May 2012 7 May 2012 Race 2 was run in similar conditions with the rain falling just after half distance meaning that half points were awarded. After the debacle Team Effenbert Liberty Racing hit out at WSBK organizers for favoring a few riders in the cancellation of race 1, putting doubt into their further participation in the championship.http://www.crash.net/world+superbikes/news/179403/1/furious_effenbert_liberty_team_slams_wsbk.html Furious Effenbert Liberty slams WSBK crash.net Crash Media Group 7 May 2012 8 May 2012 Pirelli the lone tyre provider hit back at complaints from the riders who Pirelli say ignored the advice to use the intermediate tyres during the wet/dry racing.http://www.crash.net/world+superbikes/news/179401/1/pirelli_teams_completely_ignored_advice.html Pirelli teams completely ignored advice crash.net Crash Media Group 7 May 2012 8 May 2012 Liberty racing later released a statement backtracking on was said in the wake of Monza and confirming that the team would be competing at the next round but hinted that the title sponsor Effenbert may scale back their branding in way of protest.http://www.crash.net/world+superbikes/news/179542/1/liberty_clarifies_position_after_monza_furore.html Liberty clarifies position crash.net Crash Media Group 10 May 2012 12 May 2012 Race 2 classification Pos No. Rider Bike Laps Time Grid Points 1 66 United Kingdom Tom Sykes Kawasaki ZX-10R 8 14:08.800 2 12.5 2 91 United Kingdom Leon Haslam BMW S1000RR 8 +9.709 13 10 3 58 Ireland Eugene Laverty Aprilia RSV4 Factory 8 +10.119 9 8 4 33 Italy Marco Melandri BMW S1000RR 8 +10.294 3 6.5 5 3 Italy Max Biaggi Aprilia RSV4 Factory 8 +10.527 6 5.5 6 65 United Kingdom Jonathan Rea Honda CBR1000RR 8 +10.638 5 5 7 7 Spain Carlos Checa Ducati 1098R 8 +10.899 4 4.5 8 34 Italy Davide Giugliano Ducati 1098R 8 +12.195 8 4 9 96 Czech Republic Jakub Smrž Ducati 1098R 8 +13.199 7 3.5 10 86 Italy Ayrton Badovini BMW S1000RR 8 +19.372 12 3 11 4 Japan Hiroshi Aoyama Honda CBR1000RR 8 +24.551 18 2.5 12 19 United Kingdom Chaz Davies Aprilia RSV4 Factory 8 +24.655 14 2 13 121 France Maxime Berger Ducati 1098R 8 +24.662 17 1.5 14 87 Italy Lorenzo Zanetti Ducati 1098R 8 +24.668 15 1 15 2 United Kingdom Leon Camier Suzuki GSX-R1000 8 +24.810 11 0.5 16 36 Argentina Leandro Mercado Kawasaki ZX-10R 8 +24.935 19 17 59 Italy Niccolò Canepa Ducati 1098R 8 +25.278 16 DNS 84 Italy Michel Fabrizio BMW S1000RR 10 DNS 50 France Sylvain Guintoli Ducati 1098R 1 DNS 199 Spain Sergio Gadea Kawasaki ZX-10R 21 DNS 18 Australia Mark Aitchison BMW S1000RR 20 DNS 21 United States John Hopkins Suzuki GSX-R1000 DNS 44 Spain David Salom Kawasaki ZX-10R OFFICIAL SUPERBIKE RACE 2 REPORT Supersport Race classification Pos No. Rider Bike Laps Time Grid Points 1 16 France Jules Cluzel Honda CBR600RR 16 33:08.897 10 25 2 11 United Kingdom Sam Lowes Honda CBR600RR 16 +0.312 1 20 3 54 Turkey Kenan Sofuoğlu Kawasaki ZX-6R 16 +17.369 2 16 4 10 Hungary Imre Tóth Honda CBR600RR 16 +21.528 11 13 5 12 Italy Stefano Cruciani Kawasaki ZX-6R 16 +29.469 5 11 6 25 Italy Alex Baldolini Triumph Daytona 675 16 +32.214 19 10 7 55 Italy Massimo Roccoli Yamaha YZF-R6 16 +43.577 9 9 8 8 Italy Andrea Antonelli Honda CBR600RR 16 +43.949 16 8 9 31 Italy Vittorio Iannuzzo Triumph Daytona 675 16 +47.455 21 7 10 35 Italy Raffaele De Rosa Honda CBR600RR 16 +47.826 22 6 11 3 Australia Jed Metcher Yamaha YZF-R6 16 +50.880 27 5 12 99 France Fabien Foret Kawasaki ZX-6R 16 +1:00.681 4 4 13 87 Italy Luca Marconi Yamaha YZF-R6 16 +1:01.139 13 3 14 74 United Kingdom Kieran Clarke Honda CBR600RR 16 +1:05.160 32 2 15 40 United Kingdom Martin Jessopp Honda CBR600RR 16 +1:05.208 25 1 16 22 Italy Roberto Tamburini Honda CBR600RR 16 +1:10.453 6 17 6 Italy Mirko Giansanti Kawasaki ZX-6R 16 +1:16.756 18 18 64 United States Joshua Day Kawasaki ZX-6R 16 +1:21.270 26 19 88 Italy Giovanni Altomonte Honda CBR600RR 16 +1:28.024 33 20 17 Italy Roberto Anastasia Honda CBR600RR 16 +1:28.403 30 21 61 Italy Fabio Menghi Yamaha YZF-R6 16 +1:48.237 14 22 13 Italy Dino Lombardi Yamaha YZF-R6 16 +1:59.036 24 23 53 France Valentin Debise Honda CBR600RR 16 +2:00.983 29 24 27 Switzerland Thomas Caiani Honda CBR600RR 15 +1 lap 35 25 33 Austria Yves Polzer Yamaha YZF-R6 15 +1 lap 31 26 24 Russia Eduard Blokhin Yamaha YZF-R6 15 +1 lap 34 Ret 98 France Romain Lanusse Kawasaki ZX-6R 15 Retirement 17 Ret 23 Australia Broc Parkes Honda CBR600RR 13 Retirement 7 Ret 81 Italy Cristiano Erbacci Yamaha YZF-R6 8 Accident 23 Ret 157 Italy Ilario Dionisi Honda CBR600RR 6 Retirement 20 Ret 65 Russia Vladimir Leonov Yamaha YZF-R6 5 Accident 15 Ret 20 South Africa Mathew Scholtz Honda CBR600RR 5 Accident 8 Ret 38 Hungary Balázs Németh Honda CBR600RR 5 Accident 28 Ret 32 South Africa Sheridan Morais Kawasaki ZX-6R 3 Accident 3 Ret 34 South Africa Ronan Quarmby Honda CBR600RR 1 Accident 12 DNQ 73 Russia Oleg Pozdneev Yamaha YZF-R6 OFFICIAL SUPERSPORT RACE REPORT Superstock STK1000 race classification Pos No. Rider Bike Laps Time Grid Points 1 32 ITA Lorenzo Savadori Ducati 1199 Panigale 11 21:21.255 2 25 2 71 SWE Christoffer Bergman Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +1.651 5 20 3 47 ITA Eddi La Marra Ducati 1199 Panigale 11 +1.884 4 16 4 15 ITA Fabio Massei Honda CBR1000RR 11 +3.071 10 13 5 5 ITA Marco Bussolotti Ducati 1098R 11 +11.194 8 11 6 40 HUN Alen Győrfi Honda CBR1000RR 11 +21.378 14 10 7 21 GER Markus Reiterberger BMW S1000RR 11 +26.047 6 9 8 14 ITA Lorenzo Baroni BMW S1000RR 11 +30.259 3 8 9 11 FRA Jérémy Guarnoni Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +31.224 9 7 10 44 ITA Federico Dittadi Aprilia RSV4 APRC 11 +51.230 12 6 11 22 ITA Matteo Gabrielli Aprilia RSV4 APRC 11 +57.305 13 5 12 55 SVK Tomáš Svitok Ducati 1098R 11 +1:01.806 16 4 13 93 FRA Mathieu Lussiana Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +1:01.972 7 3 14 39 FRA Randy Pagaud Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +1:14.045 19 2 15 30 ROU Bogdan Vrăjitoru Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +1:22.095 25 1 16 36 BRA Philippe Thiriet Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +2.01.823 20 17 88 ITA Massimo Parziani Aprilia RSV4 APRC 10 +1 lap 18 18 61 RUS Alexey Ivanov Ducati 1199 Panigale 10 +1 lap 24 19 155 POR Tiago Dias Kawasaki ZX-10R 10 +1 lap 22 20 17 BRA Danilo Lewis da Silva Kawasaki ZX-10R 10 +1 lap 23 Ret 41 ITA Tommaso Gabrielli Aprilia RSV4 APRC 10 Accident 21 Ret 20 FRA Sylvain Barrier BMW S1000RR 8 Accident 1 Ret 37 POL Andrzej Chmielewski Ducati 1098R 7 Accident 17 Ret 65 FRA Loris Baz Kawasaki ZX-10R 4 Accident 11 Ret 69 CZE Ondřej Ježek Ducati 1098R 1 Retirement 15 DNS 67 AUS Bryan Staring Kawasaki ZX-10R Did not start WD 24 GBR Kev Coghlan Ducati 1199 Panigale Withdrew OFFICIAL SUPERSTOCK 1000 RACE REPORT References External links The official website of the Superbike World Championship Monza Superbike World Championship Monza Category:Monza Superbike World Championship rounds