Monza post-race statistics
QUALIFYING
• Max Biaggi scored his third pole: he was on pole last year as well at Monza and since then he has always qualified in the top-10. The opposite happened to Carlos Checa, who was outside the top-10 for the first time in a year. Last year he was eleventh, since then he has always qualified in the first ten spots;
• Max recorded the new record average speed in Superbike history in qualifying, 204.405 kph, beating Colin Edwards' record set at Hockenheim (203.723 kph) in the 2000 edition. Since 2006 (196.636 kph) the average speed at Monza has increased by 8 kph;
• best career result for Eugene Laverty, second. In his first four Superbike races, Eugene started twice from the front row;
• first presence on the front row of the season for Troy Corser, fourth on the grid;
RACES
• Eugene Laverty became the eleventh rider to score his first two wins on the same day. Before him were Raymond Roche, Mauro Lucchiari, John Kocinski, Colin Edwards, Hitoyasu Izutsu, Makoto Tamada, Shane Byrne, Carlos Checa, Ryuichi Kiyonari, and Cal Crutchlow. The first double win is more and more frequent in recent years as it has been recorded seven times in the last decade. Eugene hadn't won a race since 2010 Magny Cours Supersport, so it was only a six-race gap for him to be again on the top step of the podium;
• once again Max Biaggi is still winless in this first part of the season: in the first eight races he has scored no less than five second places;
• Yamaha in race two scored the double, with Melandri in second behind Laverty: the Japanese manufacturer hadn't scored a double since the second Nurburgring race back in 2008 (Haga-Corser);
• Michel Fabrizio in race one obtained his tenth fastest lap;
• for the first time this season Carlos Checa wasn't present on the podium;
• Troy Corser managed to finish in the top-10 in both races for the first time since last year's Misano round when he was third and tenth;
• the fourth place by Haga in race two is his best result since last year's Imola races, when he was third and second, his last podiums to date;
OTHER CHAMPIONSHIPS
• In the Supersport class Chaz Davies, scored the "Grand Slam", with pole, win, fastest lap and the whole race in the lead. It's the eleventh time this has been recorded in championship history. The last one before him to score one was Eugene Laverty at the Nurburgring last year;
• Fabien Foret with his 29th podium reached Stéphane Chambon in the all-time second place in Supersport history. At the top Kenan Sofuoglu with 39 podium placements;
• maiden win for Lorenzo Zanetti in Superstock 1000;
• maiden pole and win in Superstock 600 for Romain Lanusse.
