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• Pole, win and fastest lap (twentieth in his carrier) in race one for Carlos Checa. This was his sixteenth win, reaching James Toseland and Max Biaggi as third most successful rider among the current ones. Uncatchable in this ranking are Haga and Corser, who can count 43 and 33 wins respectively, while the most successful rider of all time is Carl Fogarty with 59. With his seventh pole, Checa reached Noriyuki Haga; Corser leads the all-time ranking at 43;
• twelfth season podium for Marco Melandri, the same number John Kocinski recorded in 1996. It's the second all-time value for a rookie, behind the seventeen scored by Biaggi and Spies (2007 and 2009);
• Once again a podium and a crash for Haga at the Nurburgring, as in the past two seasons. In race two he scored his 58th fastest lap: he is the all-time leader and now counts ten more than second-placed Fogarty;
• Tom Sykes won his maiden Superbike race. He has been waiting for a podium finish since the 2008 Donington race, run in similar conditions;
• Kawasaki won their 36th Superbike race: their last win was scored by Briton Chris Walker in Assen, 2006, in the rain. The coincidences don't stop here however, as Walker was also on his maiden win and also in that race Haga crashed out while leading by a huge margin;
• the last podium finish for Kawasaki before Sykes' win was a third by Fonsi Nieto in the second Magny-Cours race, four years ago;
• thanks to Tom Sykes, Kawasaki this year have scored a win (Nurburgring), a pole (Misano) and a fastest lap (Assen). The last time they obtained a "full set" of results was 1997;
• best career result for Sylvain Guintoli, second in race two. The Frenchman is on his second podium after the third in Miller, race one;
• with a fifteenth and a twelfth, Troy Corser became the first rider with 4000 career points. His total is now 4001.5;
• in race two there were no Aprilias in the points for the first time in 55 straight races (the sequence started in Brno two years ago);
• maiden podium and fastest lap for James Ellison in Supersport;
• for the first time in Supersport history Yamaha have been able to score seven wins in a season (five by Davies, two by Scassa). At the expense of Honda, who last year posted twelve wins and this year can only count Gino Rea's win at Brno;
• for the first time in 21 races a Kawasaki wasn't present on the Supersport front row, putting an end to the third all-time sequence. At the top Honda, who are currently in a sequence of 101 races on the front row (started in Misano, 2003);
• after a ‘hat-trick' by Danilo Petrucci in Silverstone, it was the turn of Davide Giugliano to score pole, win and fastest lap in Superstock 1000. He is the 25th rider to record such a feat in the series. It's the fourth hat-trick by Ducati this year: with three races left they have already equalled their season records for pole, wins, fastest laps and podium finishes;
• maiden pole for Joshua Day in Superstock 600. He is the first American rider to start from pole in this championship.