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BMW Director finds first race result 'Overwhelming'

Berti Hauser, the Director of BMW Motorrad Motorsport, was on site at Phillip Island last weekend to see the historic entry of BMW into the World Superbike arena.

After watching Troy Corser go eighth in race one and Ruben Xaus secure 11th in race two on the all new S 1000 RR, he said, "Troy's result in race one was overwhelming. He showed what he can do by going from 17th to 8th and setting the race's fastest lap and it just leaves us to wonder what kind of result might have been possible if he had started from higher up the grid. Ruben improved throughout the weekend. He knew what he wanted changed from race one to race two and in the second race he showed that he can be a top ten rider for sure."

There were numerous highlights for BMW in their first race weekend, mixed with some harsh learning experiences. Each rider went out of Superpole at the first cut, for example, due to a misjudgement on when to use qualifying tyres. In other ways BMW's debut weekend was astonishingly potent, as Corser had been the fifth quickest qualifier of all going into Superpole, only 0.236 from the quickest rider at that point.