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Championship leader: Jonthan Rea – (Tissot-Superpole: 1^st, Race One: 1^st)

41 career wins for Jonathan Rea:  a clean sweep with pole, win, fastest race lap and the entire race in the lead.  The last time he had recorded such a feat had been at this same track two years ago, in both races.

In qualifying, Rea recorded three straight pole positions for the first time in his career, after Losail last year and Phillip Island.  With his 10th career pole, he entered the all-time top-10, going level with Frankie Chili and Carlos Checa.

In Race 2 Rea can claim his 50th podium for Kawasaki in 56 races with the team.

He has won the last three races: his only string of four came in 2015 in both races in Assen and Imola. Rea has five fastest race laps out of five races run in Buriram, on top of four race wins out of five.

Won the first three races of the season, like last year: only on two occasions in WorldSBK history has a rider won 4 or more straight races at the beginning of the year.  It happened in 2002 with Troy Bayliss (first 6) and the following year with Neil Hodgson (first 9).

2^nd in Championship: Chaz Davies – (Tissot Superpole: 5^th, Race One: 2^nd) 

Best Buriram result for Chaz Davies in Race 1: 2nd, up from third recorded in Race 2 last year.

He climbed on the podium in the last 9 races: in race 2 he will try to ente  the elite of eight riders who recorded strings  of at least  10 podium finishes (Edwards, Rea, Corser, Fogarty, Bayliss, Hodgson, Polen, Eugene Laverty).

For the first time in his career he has finished 2nd in three straight races.

3^rd in Championship: Tom Sykes – (Tissot Superpole: 2^nd, Race One: 3^rd)

Buriram remains one of the two current tracks where Tom Sykes didn’t record  pole with Lausitz:  like last year he was second in qualifying.

He was 2nd on the grid and 3rd in the race:  the same result he obtained in the first Phillip Island race.

Secured his 86th career podium in Race 1 now only one shy of the 6th all-time place, held by Aaron Slight.

4^th in Championship: Alex Lowes (Tissot Superpole: 4^th, Race One: 6^th)

Alex Lowes was sixth in all the first races held here.

5^th in Championship: Marco Melandri (Tissot Superpole: 3^rd, Race One: 4^th)

For the first time since the Nurburgring-Magny Cours weekends back in 2012, Marco Melandri was able to record back-to-back front row qualifying spots (3 straight at the time).

Thanks to the new regulations, Melandri will enjoy his first start from pole in Race 2 after the 2011 Aragon round, the only time he qualified on pole in his career.

6^th in Championship: Michael van der Mark (Tissot-Superpole: 6^th, Race One: 5^th)

In Race 2 he will enjoy his first front row start after exactly one year: in 2016 he was the polesitter in Buriram.

15^th in Championship: Stefan Bradl (Tissot-Superpole: 16^th, Race One: 10^th)

First WorldSBK top-10 finish for Stefan Bradl in Race 1.

Other Notes:

Winners  this season: Rea  3.                                                                                         

This was the 35th podium lockout for Great Britain in WorldSBK history.

In Race 1,  a  British rider  won  for the  17th  consecutive race;  this  is the second longest run of consecutive race  wins for British riders  after the 24 successive wins recorded between Phillip Island/1  and  Magny Cours/2 in 2015.

For the 22nd time Jonathan Rea, Chaz  Davies  and  Tom Sykes shared the podium.  In 12 of these, Rea won from Davies.

In Race 1, for the first time after  8 straight  races, Ducati  were  unable to lead at least  a lap.

Emphasising the British domination of WorldSBK is the fact that since  the start   of  2015,   only  two  races  have   been  won  by  non-British   riders; Qatar/1, 2015  (maiden win for Jordi Torres)  and Malaysia/2, 2016  (maiden win for Nicky Hayden). The other  53 races have  been won by Rea  (26), Davies  (16), Sykes (9) and Leon Haslam (2).

For the  third  consecutive race, the  first two at  the  flag were  the  same. Should  another Rea/Davies finish occur  in Race 2, it will be  the  first time since  2003,  when  in both  Valencia  and  Phillip Island,  the  first two were Neil Hodgson and Ruben Xaus.