After a rostrum finish in Race 1 with Davide Giugliano, Race 2 saw a Ducati up on the box once again as Chaz Davies bounced back from a tough Saturday to take another podium finish. The Welshman lost track time on Friday with a mechanical problem and crashed out of Race 1, but found enough track time to gather the data to take another great finish and haul of points in Race 2.

Giugliano, after leading Race 1 and dueling with eventual winner Tom Sykes, found a reversal of the fates on Sunday at Donington and suffered with grip issues that had not been present in Race 1, coming home seventh after initially fighting further up in the top 4. The Italian was hindered by some unforeseen problems, mostly under braking, which prevented him from showing his previous competitiveness and caused him to struggle.

“It’s definitely good to step back on the podium after the difficulties we’ve encountered here in Donington,” said Davies. “I think it all began with our problems on Friday, and yesterday I probably pushed a bit too hard, but we’re here to win races and you have to give it a try when you’re in the lead. There are certainly a few aspects which we can improve, but it was difficult to beat the Kawasakis on this track. Today, we’ve made some good progress thanks to the data we gathered yesterday during the race, and the goal is to get to Misano in a different position. We’ll prepare the next round with two days of tests next week, and the first objective will be to improve our results from 2015.”

“This weekend left a bittersweet taste in our mouth,” added Giugliano. “After a strong race yesterday, we were hoping to make another step forward to be competitive until the very end of the race. Instead, we had some problems under braking and in corner entry, still to be clarified, which were detrimental to our performance. Now we need to work harder to make sure we don’t run into similar stumbling blocks in the future and keep improving. I can’t wait to race in front of our fans in Misano, a track where we’ve been usually quite competitive.”

After the two test days, the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati squad will be back on track to battle  from the 17^th – 19^th of June at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli in Italy, racing in front of home fans once again.