Magny-Cours: post-race statistics
Here are all the post-race statistics for the final round of the 2010 SBK World Championship held at Magny-Cours:
Superbike
• sixth pole position for Cal Crutchlow, who reached John Kocinski at the fifteenth all-time place;
• best career grid spot for Sylvain Guintoli, second; he started from the front row for the second time after the Nurburgring;
• tenth presence on the front row for Jakub Smrz;
• for the third time this season after Silverstone, Cal Crutchlow was able to win from pole and score the fastest lap (race 1);
• 20th podium placement for Leon Haslam, 25th rider in history to reach this goal;
• for the third time this year Max Biaggi (race 2 winner) and Michel Fabrizio (third) climbed together on the podium, always in the same places: it happened also at Misano, race 2, and Brno, race 2;
• Max Biaggi is the twelfth rider in history to post at least ten wins during a season. The record belongs to Doug Polen, with seventeen wins in 1991;
• Aprilia became the fifth different manufacturer to win a world title after Ducati (16 wins), Honda (4), Suzuki (1) and Yamaha (1);
• the 2010 season saw a new record in Superbike history; seven different manufacturers were able to claim at least one pole spot: Yamaha (6), Aprilia (2), Suzuki, Honda, Ducati, BMW, Kawasaki (1).
Supersport
• Kenan Sofuoglu recorded his twelfth pole, reaching Paolo Casoli and Fabien Foret in the third all-time spot. At the top Sebastien Charpentier, with 22 poles;
• Katsuaki Fujiwara recorded his 41st front row spot, reaching Sebastien Charpentier in the second all-time spot. At the top of the ranking Fabien Foret, with 45 presences on the front row;
• Eugene Laverty scored his twelfth win and reached Foret in the third all-time spot. At the top Kenan Sofoglu with seventeen wins, followed by Charpentier on thirteen. Laverty also equalled the season record of wins, eight, recorded only once in Supersport history, in 2007 by Kenan Sofuoglu;
• season record also for Kenan Sofuoglu, first rider in history to score thirteen podiums in the same season. He was the former holder of this record, with twelve in 2007;
• A new record for Honda, who scored their twelfth season win, beating the previous record of eleven recorded in 2008. Honda is the only team to have scored more than six wins in the same season and managed to do it eight times straight from 2003 onwards. This year Honda allowed their rivals to score only one win, in Valencia (Joan Lascorz, Kawasaki);
• A second world title for Kenan Sofuoglu, third rider after Sebastien Charpentier and Andrew Pitt to win a second title.
Superstock 1000
• A ‘grand slam' for Maxime Berger, who claimed win from pole, set fastest lap and led from lights to flag. It's the first grand slam for Berger, the third recorded this season after two by Badovini at Monza and Misano;
• Berger's win however will be recorded as the one which stopped four record sequences by Ayrton Badovini. Ayrton's run came to an end at nine straight wins and six straight poles and the same applies to BMW. Ayrton however managed to equal another record, the one for consecutive podium finishes, ten, recorded last year for the first time by Xavier Simeon.
Superstock 600
• Win and fastest lap in his maiden race for Jed Metcher, first Australian rider to win in Superstock 600.
