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Donington Park post-race statistics

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 09:31 GMT
Donington Park post-race statistics


QUALIFYING


• For the first time in his career, Carlos Checa was able to score poles in back-to-back races. The Spanish rider can now count four pole positions and he has reached two former world champions at the seventeenth all-time spot: Fred Merkel and James Toseland;
• Tom Sykes was able to start again from the front row after Imola last year;


RACES


• Marco Melandri won his maiden superbike race: he is the 65th winner in WSBK history, the 40th in the age ranking and the 10th Italian to do so;
• Carlos Checa won his eighth race and the twentieth for Spain. The Spaniard has won five of the last eight championship races, missing out on the podium only once in this time span. Checa during the weekend was able to break all the track records: qualifying lap, race fastest lap and race distance, even though it must be said that the circuit, although not modified in lap distance, is now much faster;
• Jakub Smrz scored his best-ever result, second, his second podium after the third place in the second Assen race, back in 2009, a wait of one year and eleven months;
• Leon Camier scored his fourth superbike podium, matching the result he obtained last year at his other home circuit, Silverstone;
• Max Biaggi was given a black flag in race two and this brought a halt to his all-time record sequence of races in the points: 39. Max has been scoring points since the 2009 Brno races;
• In race one Noriyuki Haga scored his 57th fastest lap: he is already the all-time leader in this ranking, but throughout the entire 2010 season he wasn't able to post a single fastest lap with the works Ducati;


SUPERSPORT


• Luca Scassa scored his second win exactly one month after his maiden one in Australia and added a maiden pole to the record books;
• Sam Lowes became the 40th rider to have scored at least one fastest lap in Supersport history;
• First-ever presence on the front row for Chaz Davies;