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• Leon Camier has only finished one race at the Nurburgring, last year in race one, eighth. In race two he fell when he was running fifth, while in 2010 he fractured his right hand and had to end his season immediately;

• Max Biaggi in his Superbike career has stepped onto the podium in all the circuits of the 2012 calendar, except for Silverstone and the Nurburgring. Here in Germany his best result is a fourth, obtained twice: starting from pole in race one in 2010 and from seventh in race two, 2009. Max has always scored points here, and only once he didn't finish in the top-10, in 2008 race one (13th), when he didn't take risks after a fall in the warm-up. Another crash was the reason why last year he didn't take part in the races: he ran over some debris during practice, fracturing a bone in his left foot; he had to sit out also the Imola and Magny Cours races;

• Four podiums for Carlos Checa at the Nurburgring: the best was his win from pole and fastest lap in race one last year. He adds to that a second in race one in 2010 and two thirds in 2009 with Honda. In the last two years Carlos didn't climb on the podium here only twice: a fall in race two, 2010 while he was second behind Haga (only time without points here) and last year in race two when he didn't take risks in the wet and finished eighth, after a very slow start;

• Chaz Davies won the Supersport race last year after a close duel with James Ellison, winning by only 0"091;

• John Hopkins has bad memories of the Nurburgring: in 2009 he qualified 19th, and at the second turn after the first start he was involved in an accident. A bike ran over his chest. The race was immediately stopped to help him: John was unconscious for several minutes, but eventually he didn't suffer any serious injuries;

• Last year in race one Marco Melandri looked like the only one able to challenge Checa for the lead, but right after climbing up to second, he made a mistake and he slipped behind Laverty and Haga: he had to start all over again, he passed them again, but the time lost didn't allow him to reach Checa. In race two he had a faulty display, so he had to play it by ear and couldn't extract the best from his bike, finishing sixth;

• Davide Giugliano dominated last year's Superstock 1000 race: pole, win and fastest lap. He left the lead to his rival Sylvain Barrier only in the first three laps, then he pulled away to win in front of Barrier and Niccolò Canepa. In 2008, again in the Superstock 1000 series, Giugliano went close to win, but he finished second in a three-rider fight with Brendan Roberts, winner, and Xavier Simeon, third;

• David Salom was seventeenth in both 2009 races and sixth and eighth in the Supersport races in 2010 and 2011;

• Sylvain Guintoli last year was able to finish second in race two, while in the other three races run here he was eighth in 2010 in race one, then twice sixth. Second place last year was his best career result at the time: this year he improved on that by winning in Assen and Silverstone;

• Eugene Laverty was fourth and fifth in last year's races: in the Supersport championship, in 2009 he was second behind future world champion Cal Crutchlow, while in 2010 he won in front of Kenan Sofuoglu, scoring pole, fastest lap and leading from lights to flag;

• Niccolò Canepa was third last year in the Superstock 1000 race behind Davide Giugliano and Sylvain Barrier;

• Jonathan Rea last year was coming back after his Misano injury and in race one he finished tenth. In race two he climbed up to his standards in this track, finishing fourth. In 2009 and 2010, Jonathan won twice: in 2009 race two, beating Ben Spies, and in 2010 race one, beating Checa. In 2009 in race one he was fourth, while in 2010 in race two he didn't manage to beat Haga, finishing second;

• The Nurburgring track was the stage of Tom Sykes' maiden win, last year in race two. Curiously, in race one he had obtained his worst result in this track, eleventh. In the other four races run here, Tom finished between fifth (2010 race one) and ninth (2009 race one). No one else in the last ten years was able to take a Kawasaki in the first five spots in the race here;

• Loris Baz was fifth in the 2010 Superstock 1000 race, but it's the 2009 race which springs to mind: Loris posted his maiden pole in the series, and in the race he was fighting for the top spots when he fell at the hairpin, finishing only fifteenth. In the 2008 Superstock 600 race, Baz was second behind Patrik Vostarek both in qualifying and in the race. In the race he lost out by only 0"083;

• Great qualifying performances at the Nurburgring for Lorenzo Zanetti in the Superstock 1000 championship: he was second in 2010 and fourth last year. He had less luck in the races: in 2010 he retired from seventh with a technical problem, while in 2011 he was fourth behind Giugliano, Barrier and Canepa;

• Michel Fabrizio's scoreboard at the Nurburgring is split in half: in 2008 and 2009 he was able to finish always between sixth and ninth, while in the last two seasons he never scored points here. The bad luck started with a fall in race one in 2010 while he was sixth, followed by a vibration problem in race two which forced him in the pits. Last year a contact in race one caused him pain in the second part of the race, so that he slipped from fifth to sixteenth, while in race two he decided to stop when the pain came back;

• Ayrton Badovini was ninth and seventh last year, best BMW rider in race two. In 2008 he wasn't able to score points with a seventeenth in race one and an accident with Vittorio Iannuzzo in race two. In 2010 in Superstock 1000 he won from pole, posting the fastest lap;

• High-profile results for Leon Haslam at the Nurburgring: always in the top-10, both in qualifying and in the races, out of six races run. His best result is a third: in qualifying in 2009 and in race two in 2010, behind Noriyuki Haga and Jonathan Rea, his only podium here;

• Jakub Smrz was third in race two last year, but this track hasn't given him any more luck: his best grid spot is a tenth (2011), while in the other seven races run here he never finished in the top-10;

• Maxime Berger was tenth in the rain in race two last year, while he had to retire in race one with a mechanical problem. Maxime ran three Superstock 1000 races at the Nurburgring, finishing second twice, always behind the future champion of the series: in 2009 he was beaten by Xavier Simeon and in 2010 by Ayrton Badovini.