Haga and Fabrizio dominate race 2 at Kyalami

Noriyuki Haga led home his team-mate Michel Fabrizio to the flag in race 2, giving the Ducati Xerox team a perfect double 1-2 weekend. This time round the Japanese rider led for 23 of the 24 laps and he has now pulled out a large lead in the points table. Once again Fabrizio was the man on his tail, the Italian livening up proceedings on the final lap with a couple of passes on his team-mate, but twice Haga came back to clinch his sixth win of the season. Lap 3 saw the demise of Ben Spies (Yamaha World Superbike), whose R1 machine entered the pits with a gear shift problem. The Texan has now been overtaken in the championship by Fabrizio and is 88 points behind Haga. Jonathan Rea scored his first ever WSBK podium, the youngster from Northern Ireland ending a positive weekend with a third place. Rea calmly held off the pressure from fellow-Brit Leon Haslam (Stiggy Racing Honda), who had crashed out of race 1 but who in turn managed to keep Max Biaggi (Aprilia) at bay. Once again the Italian RSV4 machine showed no lack of top speed, Biaggi clocking an impressive 255 km/h. Team-mate Shinya Nakano picked up another positive seventh place on the second Aprilia, behind Carlos Checa (Hannspree Honda) and ahead of Yukio Kagayama (Suzuki Alstare). A ninth place for Yamaha was earned by Tom Sykes, while South African Sheridan Morais took the leading Kawasaki to eleventh place in front of his home crowd. BMW had a another race to forget, with no points recorded by either Ruben Xaus and Steve Martin.