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• Last year Max Biaggi left his mark in Misano, scoring the double. In the previous six races run here he was able to climb on the podium only twice: a third in 2007, race two and a second the following year, always in race two. 2009 was a year to forget, with a thirteenth and a tenth;

• Leon Camier was able to score points in both 2010 races, finishing sixth in race one;

• Misano was the stage of Jonathan Rea's maiden Superbike win, in race two, 2009, in front of the Ducatis of Michel Fabrizio and Noriyuki Haga. The following year was rather disappointing: he started only sixteenth, saying: "probably the worst qualifying performance of my career". In the races he was thirteenth and twelfth. Rea, however, always scored points in Misano;

• even if Carlos Checa was able to score points in all his six races in Misano, he climbed on the podium only once: in race one last year, when he was second behind Biaggi, posting the fastest race lap;

• Mark Aitchison's results in Misano are constantly improving: he was seventh in the Superstock 1000 race in 2007, sixth in the 2008 Supersport race and fifth in the same event one year later;

• Troy Corser scored a double in Misano eleven years ago and climbed on the podium a total of sixteen times, the last one last year in race one, his last podium to date. Corser's sixteen podiums are a Superbike record, as no other rider was able to ammass the same number on a given circuit: Carl Fogarty follows with fifteen in Assen. Troy holds also the record for the highest number of poles in the same track, and recorded that in Misano as well: six poles. Troy started from pole here three times in the last four race weekends;

• Joan Lascorz ran four Supersport races in Misano going from the seventeenth place in 2007 to the second in 2010, behind Eugene Laverty;

• Marco Melandri ran four MotoGP races in Misano, with fourth as best result in the 2007 event, the first one he contested here;

• Noriyuki Haga climbed on the podium four times out of 22 in Misano. The Japanese recently has been very steady in his results here, finishing sixteen times in the top-10 in his last eighteen races;

• Roberto Rolfo scored points both in 2006 and 2007 and finished tenth in last year's Moto2 race;

• Sylvain Guintoli was fifth and sixth in last year's races. He raced there in MotoGP in 2007 and 2008, finishing twelfth and eleventh;

• James Tosleand climbed on the podium twice out of sixteen races run here, losing out to Troy Bayliss in 2006 and just behind Ruben Xaus in 2003. James started from pole in 2006. In MotoGP he was sixth in 2008 and tenth in 2009;

• Eugene Laverty has an impressive Supersport record in the Misano track: in 2009 he was able to finish second from the eighth in grid, while last year he dominated in front of Joan Lascorz and Kenan Sofuoglu;

• Tom Sykes was eighth and seventh in the 2009 races, while last year he was the first Kawasaki rider in race one, fifteenth;

• Chris Vermeulen was second behind Regis Laconi in both 2005 races, then he went to MotoGP, when he was again second behind Casey Stoner in 2007, while last year he managed to be the best-classified rider for Kawasaki in race two, in fifteenth place;

• Michel Fabrizio climbed on the podium in three of the last four races run here: the italian starts from the front row in Misano since 2008. His first Superbike years here were tough, with three retirements in the first four races. In the Superstock 1000 class he won the 2003 race;

• Ayrton Badovini wasn't able to score points in the two Superbike races he ran here in 2008, but was on pole (2006 and 2010) and won (2010) in the Superstock 1000 class;

• Leon Haslam scored his best Misano placement in the last race he contested here: second to Max Biaggi last year in race two. Leon always scored points in this track, finishing in the top-10 four times;

• Jakub Smrz was just off the podium in 2009, when he started from pole (his maiden one) and finished fourth, scoring the fastest race lap in race one. He was less lucky last year, when he retired twice for mechanical failures: these are the only times he didn't score points here;

• Ruben Xaus won three times in Misano: a double in 2003 and in 2008, race two. Since that win the Spaniard scored only two points here: last year he suffered two mechanical failures;

• Maxime Berger in the Superstock 1000 championship always started from the front row, finishing his three races always on the podium: third in 2008, winner in 2009 and second to Badovini last year. Maxime won also the 2007 Superstock 600 race from Michele Magnoni;

TEAMS

• In the last three years five different manufacturers won in Misano: Suzuki in 2008, race one, Ducati in race two; in 2009 Yamaha in race one and Honda in race two and last year Aprilia in both races;

• the most successful manufacturer is Ducati, with 26 wins, the last one in 2008: it's the first time in history that two back-to-back seasons without Ducati wins in Misano are recorded. Since 2001 to 2005 the Borgo Panigale squad won all races here. Since 2007 Ducati is able to start from the front row with at least one bike;

• Aprilia scored two doubles in Misano: in 2000 and last year, ten seasons later;

•after winning in 2009 with Jonathan Rea, Honda were not able to finish in the top-10 last year

•the last top-10 placement for a Kawasaki in Misano dates back 2007, when Regis Laconi was seventh in race one;

• since their win in race one, 2008, Suzuki scored only one podium, with a second by Leon Haslam in race two last year. Suzuki are not able to start from the front row since 2006 (Troy Corser, second);

• Yamaha won their last race in Misano in 2009 with Ben Spies, after that they weren't able to score podiums anymore.

MILESTONES IN MISANO

1994 - First and only fastest lap for Piergiorgio Bontempi;

1995 - First win and first fastest lap for Mauro Lucchiari, 50th pole position for Ducati by Carl Fogarty;

1996 - first win, pole and fastest lap for John Kocinski at his first appearance at a WSBK race;

1999 - 150th fastest lap for Ducati by Troy Corser, 100th podium placement for Carl Fogarty;

2003 - 200th fastest lap for Ducati (Ruben Xaus), 50th podium appearance for Pierfrancesco Chili;

2004 - first pole position for Steve Martin;

2006 - first win for Andrew Pitt in race two;

2007 - 40th career pole for Troy Corser;

2008 - Troy Corser scored his 42nd pole, exactly twice as Fogarty and Bayliss were counting at the moment. Maiden fastest lap for Jakub Smrz.

2009 - maiden pole for Jakub Smrz and maiden win for Jonathan Rea;

2010 - maiden pole for BMW by Troy Corser.