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After a good start from seventh in the opener, Max battled for fourth place with Troy Corser and after two laps lost contact with the leaders to fend off the attacking Michel Fabrizio. He continued to defend fifth place until the last three laps when he was overtaken by Leon Haslam, but in the penultimate turn Biaggi passed the Briton again while they braked for the chicane, crossing the finish line in fifth place.

Biaggi paid a price for a poor start in the second race, his bike lifting the front wheel repeatedly and he finished the first lap tenth. From that moment on he put in a spectacular comeback with lap times which would have allowed him to battle for the podium.

At the halfway point he passed Fabrizio's Ducati, moving into fifth. In the thirteenth lap he passed Haslam but he was too far behind Checa to make up enough ground before the flag came out, leaving Max fourth, and relatively happy with his weekend.

"I am pretty satisfied," said Max. "Even though the conditions of these past few days were pretty difficult. Having ridden only one day on the dry track and without having any data available, our work was quite complicated, so we optimized the material we had at our disposal based on our experience in the previous races and in the end it was a good weekend. I still feel the usual vibrations in the turns, which I'm still unable to resolve; I hope they decrease in the next races because they really limit us a lot. Race two went much better, a shame about the start, but we already understand where the problem came from and the pace was good. We will need more time to draw out the best in ourselves, hopefully even by Imola, although the type of circuit is not very favourable to our characteristics."