Hannspree Ten Kate Honda's Jonathan Rea took his first World Superbike championship pole position at Assen on 24th April 2010. Here's the before, during and after...
2010 Assen World Superbike Race 1 Result - Five Way Battle Decided With Two To Go
Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-04-25 12:40.
in World Superbikes Assen, The Netherlands
Results and summary of World Superbike Race 1 at Assen:
Johnny Rea took home victory for the HANNSpree Ten Kate Honda team at Assen, after shaking off a pack of pursuers with a couple of laps to go. Rea was outdragged off the line by Troy Corser on the BMW and Leon Camier, who stuffed his Alitalia Aprilia through into 2nd into the first turn. Corser and Camier led from Rea for the first couple of laps, before the Ulsterman started working his way forward, passing Camier on lap 6 and chasing an unleashed Troy Corser.
Behind Rea, Pata S&G's Jakub Smrz was starting to push Leon Camier, while James Toseland had clearly fixed the issues that had troubled his Sterilgarda Yamaha all weekend, and had charged through from 10th on the grid to fight his way up to 5th. Toseland was compressing the front five from 5th position, the front group tight, assisted by Troy Corser whose pace was starting to tail off. Smrz squeezed past Camier into 3rd, but four laps later, James Toseland barged his way forward into 3rd, bumping Smrz and Camier back a place each. A lap later, and Camier was past Smrz and back into 4th, diving up the inside going into the first turn.
Two laps further on, and Johnny Rea had finally worked his way past the BMW of Troy Corser. Not to be outdone, Toseland followed, elbowing Corser aside going into the GT chicane. Another lap on and Camier was also past Corser round Assen's flowing southern section, and Corser was effectively out of contention, forced to allow Carlos Checa past, but holding off Max Biaggi to the line.
Toseland used the next couple of laps to close hard on Rea, diving through to take the lead into the chicane with three laps left to go. Rea responded immediately, diving back into the lead at the Haarbocht, dumping the Yamaha man wide and creating a gap. Rea then pushed hard for the finish, and crossed the line with a small but comfortable gap to take the win. James Toseland held off Leon Camier, who had got back on Toseland's tail after Rea had passed the Yamaha back for the lead. Carlos Checa crossed the line an impressive 4th, while Troy Corser held off Max Biaggi for 5th.
Championship leader Leon Haslam suffered a painful blow to his title lead, going backwards in the early part of the race to drop down to 16th spot, before leading a fight back to eventually finish 11th. The Alstare Suzuki rider did get a little lucky, though, with chief title rival Max Biaggi only closing by 5 points, and Carlos Checa gaining just 8 points. Haslam finished not far behind Xerox Ducati's Noriyuki Haga, who he had spent much of the race battling with in a big group scrapping over 10th spot.
Results
Pos No. Rider Country Bike Diff
1 65 J. Rea GBR Honda CBR1000RR
2 52 J. Toseland GBR Yamaha YZF R1 1.106
3 2 L. Camier GBR Aprilia RSV4 1000 F. 1.249
4 7 C. Checa ESP Ducati 1098R 1.548
5 11 T. Corser AUS BMW S1000 RR 2.738
6 3 M. Biaggi ITA Aprilia RSV4 1000 F. 2.813
7 96 J. Smrz CZE Ducati 1098R 6.296
8 35 C. Crutchlow GBR Yamaha YZF R1 12.022
9 67 S. Byrne GBR Ducati 1098R 12.146
10 41 N. Haga JPN Ducati 1098R 19.753
11 91 L. Haslam GBR Suzuki GSX-R1000 22.204
12 66 T. Sykes GBR Kawasaki ZX 10R 22.282
13 84 M. Fabrizio ITA Ducati 1098R 22.780
14 50 S. Guintoli FRA Suzuki GSX-R1000 23.364
15 99 L. Scassa ITA Ducati 1098R 37.097
16 57 L. Lanzi ITA Ducati 1098R 39.467
17 77 C. Vermeulen AUS Kawasaki ZX 10R 46.468
18 15 M. Baiocco ITA Kawasaki ZX 10R 57.170
19 95 R. Hayden USA Kawasaki ZX 10R 1'01.634
20 76 M. Neukirchner GER Honda CBR1000RR 1'04.295
RET 23 B. Parkes AUS Honda CBR1000RR 13 Laps
RET 111 R. Xaus ESP BMW S1000 RR 14 Laps
2010 Assen World Superbike Race 2 Result - Another Barnburner Settled With A Few Laps To Go
Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-04-25 16:10.
in World Superbikes Assen, The Netherlands
Results and summary of the second World Superbike race at Assen:
Johnny Rea completed the double at Assen today, taking another solid victory after a breathtaking race. BMW's Troy Corser once again got the holeshot, leading Alstare Suzuki's Leon Haslam and the Ten Kate Honda of Johnny Rea into the first corner. Within a couple of corners, Rea was past Haslam, and for a few moments, it looked like Haslam could suffer a repeat of race 1, when low pressure in the front tire slowed the Suzuki rider badly. But by lap 2, with Haslam still fully in the running, it was clear that the problems had not reappeared.
The race quickly turned into the kind of fully-blown spectacle that World Superbike rounds at Assen so quickly turn into. By lap 6, a freight train of 8 riders had formed, consisting of Rea, Haslam and Corser, along with the Alitalia Aprilias of Leon Camier and Max Biaggi, the Althea Ducatis of Carlos Checa and Shane Byrne, and the Sterilgarda Yamaha of James Toseland, who was storming through the field once again.
A dogfight developed for the lead, with Troy Corser and Johnny Rea swapping the lead early, before Leon Haslam barged past Rea at the GT chicane at the halfway mark, and then Corser at the same place a lap later. Corser tried seizing the lead on the way into Turn 2, Madijk, but Haslam slammed him aside, sliding back into the lead a corner later. Rea followed Haslam through a few corners later, sliding through at the Stekkenwal to take over 2nd.
This was the signal for all hell to break loose, with the passes getting more brutal and more daring as the race wound down. Corser passed Rea on the entry into the new Ruskenhoek, an audacious pass at high speed, but Rea was straight back as the heeled over left for the Ruskenhoek proper. Behind Corser, Leon Camier bundled under James Toseland at Mandeveen, but Toseland was having none of it, and was back by the next corner.
At the front, Johnny Rea bust past Haslam and back into the lead at the Haarbocht, a move which Haslam reciprocated again at the Ruskenhoek, copying Corser's adventurous example. Not to be outdone, Rea took on Haslam at Hoge Heide, the fastest and scariest part of the track. Rea's reward was short-lived, though, as Haslam was back again at the GT chicane. Turn 1 saw Rea get back again, and this time, he made it stick on the Alstare Suzuki rider.
The two had now opened a gap back to the battle for 3rd, which was now big enough to leave them unthreatened. Rea put the hammer down for the last five laps, pulling out nearly two seconds over his fellow Briton Haslam, to secure his double victory for the HANNSpree Ten Kate team.
Rea's and Haslam's breakaway was assisted by the bickering which was going on behind them. Aprilia's Leon Camier and Yamaha's James Toseland were scrapping hard over the final podium place, an argument which Camier seemed to have settled in his favor, until a mistake saw him run wide, touch the astroturf on the outside of the Meeuwenmeer, and send his bike tumbling wildly through the grass. Camier's error handed Toseland third place, his second podium of the day, and far more than he had expected after a very mediocre Superpole. Max Biaggi got past Troy Corser to take 4th, with Carlos Checa edging Jakub Smrz for 6th.
A technical problem for Noriyuki Haga saw the Japanese rider's hopes of a title become yet more distant, while Michel Fabrizio's 12th place finish completed a miserable weekend for the Xerox Ducati team.
Haslam's 2nd place saw him extend his title lead over Max Biaggi to 20 points, while Johnny Rea leaps up into 3rd place in the championship, 38 points behind the leader Haslam.
Results:
Pos No. Rider Country Bike Diff
1 65 J. Rea GBR Honda CBR1000RR
2 91 L. Haslam GBR Suzuki GSX-R1000 1.942
3 52 J. Toseland GBR Yamaha YZF R1 3.928
4 3 M. Biaggi ITA Aprilia RSV4 1000 F. 4.067
5 11 T. Corser AUS BMW S1000 RR 4.176
6 7 C. Checa ESP Ducati 1098R 4.525
7 96 J. Smrz CZE Ducati 1098R 4.682
8 67 S. Byrne GBR Ducati 1098R 7.698
9 76 M. Neukirchner GER Honda CBR1000RR 9.903
10 111 R. Xaus ESP BMW S1000 RR 11.465
11 99 L. Scassa ITA Ducati 1098R 15.489
12 84 M. Fabrizio ITA Ducati 1098R 23.604
13 50 S. Guintoli FRA Suzuki GSX-R1000 29.085
14 77 C. Vermeulen AUS Kawasaki ZX 10R 35.401
15 15 M. Baiocco ITA Kawasaki ZX 10R 44.330
16 95 R. Hayden USA Kawasaki ZX 10R 50.830
17 23 B. Parkes AUS Honda CBR1000RR 58.819
RET 2 L. Camier GBR Aprilia RSV4 1000 F. 2 Laps
RET 35 C. Crutchlow GBR Yamaha YZF R1 11 Laps
RET 41 N. Haga JPN Ducati 1098R 16 Laps
RET 57 L. Lanzi ITA Ducati 1098R
RET 66 T. Sykes GBR Kawasaki ZX 10R
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