SBK Vallelunga

[ChrisS]

New circuit and potential title decider this weekend.

Local track for Max Biaggi though he never raced there before, and any track in Italy is a local track for Ducati.

Toseland needs a 50 points lead to win the championship, a double win will give him the championship no matter what.

Haga is in good form and he will try to gain more ground that would give him a chance at the final round.

Parkes looks to make it 3 wins in a row in supersport, he is 26 points behind Foret and could finish 2nd in the championship.

[ChrisS]

Q1

1 AUS Troy Corser Yamaha Motor Italia Yamaha YZF-R1 1'37.537
2 AUS Troy Bayliss Ducati Xerox Team Ducati 999 F07 1'37.578
3 JPN Noriyuki Haga Yamaha Motor Italia Yamaha YZF-R1 1'37.951
4 ITA Max Biaggi Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra Suzuki GSX-R1000 K7 1'37.962
5 GBR James Toseland Hannspree Ten Kate Honda Honda CBR1000RR 1'38.111
6 ITA Roberto Rolfo Hannspree Ten Kate Honda Honda CBR1000RR 1'38.279
7 ITA Michel Fabrizio D.F.X. Corse Honda CBR1000RR 1'38.310
8 FRA Régis Laconi Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'38.486
9 JPN Shinichi Nakatomi Yamaha YZF Yamaha YZF-R1 1'38.573
10 ESP Ruben Xaus Team Sterilgarda Ducati 999 F06 1'38.659
11 ITA Lorenzo Lanzi Ducati Xerox Team Ducati 999 F07 1'38.892
12 ESP Fonsi Nieto Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'39.010
13 ITA Vittorio Iannuzzo Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'39.017
14 JPN Yukio Kagayama Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra Suzuki GSX-R1000 K7 1'39.190
15 AUS Karl Muggeridge Alto Evolution Honda Honda CBR1000RR 1'39.327
16 ITA Norino Brignola Team Guandalini Ducati 999 F05 1'39.341
17 ITA Marco Borciani Team Sterilgarda Ducati 999 F06 1'39.418
18 CZE Jakub Smrz Team Caracchi Ducati SC Ducati 999 F05 1'39.475
19 GER Max Neukirchner Suzuki Germany Suzuki GSX-R1000 K6 1'39.885
20 FRA Yoann Tiberio Alto Evolution Honda Honda CBR1000RR 1'39.959
21 AUS Steve Martin Celani Team Suzuki Italia Suzuki GSX-R1000 K6 1'40.241
22 ITA Luca Morelli D.F.X. Corse Honda CBR1000RR 1'40.609
23 GBR Dean Ellison Team Pedercini Ducati 999RS 1'42.069

Pole:
Nitro Nori :s mokin:

Race 1:
Nori

Race 2:
Nori

I'll scarcely be able to watch. I hope he does well but above all let's hope the final two rounds are as great to watch as others have been throughout the season. :)

[Wim_Impreza]

My predictions:
Pole: Haga

Race 1:
1 Haga
2 Bayliss
3 Corser

Race 2:
1 Bayliss
2 Haga
3 Biaggi

[ChrisS]

Troy Bayliss has taken pole position for tomorrow’s World Superbike races

Bayliss, with a time of 1:35.890, was the only rider to dip below the 1:36s. Troy Corser (1:36.016) was second fastest, with Ruben Xaus (1:36.737) third and Max Biaggi (1:36.925) rounding out the front row.

Haga (1:36.996) was fifth, Lanzi (1:37.428) sixth and Fabrizio (1:37.430) seventh. Championship leader Toseland will start from eighth place after he crashed during his Superpole lap.

[Mach24]

Seems Tosser is doing all he can to lose the WSB championship.

C'mon Max!

[patnicholls]

It was a very silly/unlucky crash, am keeping my fingers crossed for Magny-Cours now.

Still 29 points over Max, and 33 over Nori - it should still be enough for JT unless there's a major disaster.

It's very quiet in here since the outage yesterday, but we are still open for business :)

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And, the race wasn't on TV and I didn't manage to get hold of it online, but the Superstock 1000 Championship is very interesting heading into the final round.

Mateo Baiocco on a Yamaha leads by a single point from Nicola Canepa (on the Ducati 1098), with Alstare Suzuki's Xavier Simeon another seven back and Lorenzini by Leoni Yamaha's Claudio Corti one point behind him. Aussie hopeful Mark Aitchison is fifth, 25 points off the championship lead. Should be a great finale with everything at stake.

[tha_jackal]

Yer the WSSTK 1000 championship is a good'un, thats for sure.. Have to say that Toseland isnt dealing with the pressure all that well, he should still win the title, thats for sure.. Anyway, its going to be interesting this w.e with Max and Nori right on his hammer..

[The Phantom]

Corser sure earned his paycheck in race two... piling on the pressure and he got an even better result for Nori than if he'd beaten Toseland to the line, lucky for JT that he likes Magny-Cours.

Great dicing early in each race - good old SBK fairing-bashing.

Woo hoo, final round of SBK this weekend and PI MotoGP the weekend after!!! Boy am I gonna be bored after that's all over...

[osg]

My goodness.... is Max gonna sneak up and nick this title from under JT's nose????

[NinjaMaster]

My goodness.... is Max gonna sneak up and nick this title from under JT's nose????
No, but it makes the last round more interesting.

[burger]

I like Toseland as a rider, but in the past few racers he's put some passes on people that were a bit too hard - Bayliss at Brands in race 1 and Haga this past weekend in both races (including throwing out an elbow at Nori).

Not sure I like those kinds of passes...

[The Phantom]

I think when the title is at stake, a rider can be forgiven for a little more aggression than they usually display. Haga also was riding hard at Vallelunga, as was Biaggi.

Usually the TenKate bike is very quick at season's end, but JT is being mugged at the moment. If Biaggi races as well, and JT has another racing incident, things could look very very interesting.

Kudos to JT - twice now he's crashed and remounted to pick up points.

[Silver]

I like Toseland as a rider, but in the past few racers he's put some passes on people that were a bit too hard - Bayliss at Brands in race 1 and Haga this past weekend in both races (including throwing out an elbow at Nori).

Not sure I like those kinds of passes...

Bayliss at Brands? There was a gap and he took it.

The move on Haga in race one wasn't great, but I think he will have been surprised at how quickly Haga pulled his bike in after running wide. I seriously doubt it was intentional. As for the "elbows" in race two, he threw out an elbow to make himself wider maybe but it was no-where near connecting with Haga.

The fact that Haga felt no need to even mention any of the passes after the race speaks volumes. That is exactly how he races so I can't see how people complain when others do it, yet proclaim him to be exciting?

[neninja]

I like Toseland as a rider, but in the past few racers he's put some passes on people that were a bit too hard - Bayliss at Brands in race 1 and Haga this past weekend in both races (including throwing out an elbow at Nori).

Not sure I like those kinds of passes...

The criticism of Toseland in the past was that he was too nice and lacked aggression.

Personally I'm pleased to see him giving it back. The likes of Haga, Biaggi, Corser, Bayliss would all have tried those overtakes. Tough moves but fair I'd say, it's all part of racing. Just watch a 125 race and you'll see several of those moves every lap.