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WorldSBK.com provides you with some curious facts and useful information about the upcoming round at Assen's TT Circuit.

The championship leader, Sylvain Guintoli, comes back to the track that last year gave him his maiden win (race one). In race two he was second, passed by the eventual winner Rea in the closing laps. Before last year he didn't manage to do better than tenth in four races run in Assen.

The double winner in Aragon, Chaz Davies comes to a circuit where last year he didn't enjoy much luck, retiring in both races for two falls: he was starting from the eleventh spot. In 2011, in the Supersport championship, he got it right, winning in front of Fabien Foret and Broc Parkes. In the same championship, he was fourth in 2010.

In all the four races run in Assen, Eugene Laverty always finished between third and seventh, posting a podium finish last year in race two, when he defended his third place from the challenges of Melandri and Haslam, on the last lap. He won twice here in Supersport in 2009 and 2010.

A cursed track for Marco Melandri: he never managed to climb on the podium, finishing fourth in two of the four races run here, the last time last year in race two. Last year in race one he was leading when he fell before the race was stopped. Marco raced seven MotoGP races in Assen, scoring two podium finishes in 2004 and 2005. In 2002 he won from pole the 250cc race before Toni Elias and Roberto Rolfo.

Jonathan Rea is at the third all-time spot for wins in Assen, behind Carl Fogarty, who won here twelve times and Troy Bayliss, who scored six wins. Jonathan won four times out of eight races run, scoring the double in 2010, winning race one in 2011 and race two last year. He also posted a pole here: in 2010, his maiden one.

The best result for Tom Sykes is still the one of his first weekend here, in 2009 with Yamaha, when he was fourth in race one and sixth in race two. Last year he started from pole, but he suffered a radiator failure while he was leading race one and in race two he experienced setup problems which left him in sixth at the flag.

Leon Camier scored his maiden Superbike podium in Assen in 2010, race one (third) and the following year his maiden fastest lap, finishing fourth in race two. In all his three weekends here, however, he retired in one of the races: a mechanical failure in 2011 in race two and two falls, in 2010, race two and last year in race one, when he high-sided during the sighting lap on a wet track.

Davide Giugliano scored here is maiden podium last year, finishing second in race one, despite starting a lowly nineteenth; he was ninth in race two. In 2011 he won the Superstock 1000 race from Danilo Petrucci. He counts also a third in 2010 behind Ayrton Badovini and Maxime Berger.

Michel Fabrizio was third in his first Superbike race in this track, in 2006, race one. After that, he never managed to climb on the podium anymore, but counts twelve points finishes out of fourteen races run here: he wasn't able to score only in 2008.

A win and four more podiums out of ten races run here for Carlos Checa. His best weekend was the 2011 one, when he won in race one and finished third in race two, starting from pole (the only time he started from the front row here). Last year he was third in race one, while in race two he made a mistake before the start, choosing the rain tyres on a track that was almost dry. A pit-stop on the opening lap cut him off a possible points finisher: he ended up seventeenth, one of the two times he didn't score points here, the other being a fall in race one in 2009.