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• Fifth career pole for Max Biaggi, who hadn't started from the pole spot since last year's Brno races. Max managed to win race one, stepping onto the podium at this track for the first time. Max in race one also recorded the fastest race lap, the eighteenth of his career: he thus entered the top-10 all-time list, matching Doug Polen's tally. Biaggi is now also the ninth rider in history to pass the 2000 points mark (2026); at the top of the chart is Troy Corser, with 4021.5 points. Max in race two reached also the important goal of 150 race starts;
• The Nurburgring weekend was the 20th on the run in which Tom Sykes qualified in the top-10. During this period Tom has scored eight poles and has started from the front row five more times;
• For the first time in history, Aprilia managed to lockout the podium: it happened in race one, with Biaggi, Laverty and Davies;
• Eugene Laverty with two second places at the Nurburgring, reached and passed the ten career podiums mark (11);
• At his 21st race start, Chaz Davies posted his maiden win. He is the 70th winner in the Championship's history: with his success, Great Britain has now reached Australia and United States at the top of the all-time standings. These three countries count 118 wins each, more than a half of the total number of races run (614);
• With Davies we have eight different winners this year, a value which hasn't been recorded since 2008. The record for a single season is ten, recorded in 1989;
• Chaz Davies became the first rider to win at the Nurburgring both in Supersport (last year) and in Superbike;
• Leon Camier managed to take a Suzuki back onto the podium for the first time since last year's Monza races, when Michel Fabrizio was third in race two. For Leon it is his eighth career podium, and he has also been waiting since last year (and from a race run in Italy): third in Imola, race two;
• 30th career fastest race lap for Carlos Checa in race two;
• Tom Sykes, one of the quickest in qualifying and during the opening laps, in both races slipped down the order and off the podium after leading both races at the Nurburgring. During this season Sykes has led no fewer than seventeen races, winning only two;
• For the first time in his career, Marco Melandri recorded a double retirement, in the two races following his first lead in the championship. In the previous 47 races, Marco only recorded four DNFs;