1. Mat Mladin, 2:08.948, Suzuki GSX-R750
2. Jamie Hacking, 2:09.319, Suzuki GSX-R750
3. Aaron Yates, 2:09.406, Suzuki GSX-R750
4. Anthony Gobert, 2:09.463, Yamaha YZF-R7
5. Eric Bostrom, 2:09.864, Kawasaki ZX-7RR
6. Kurtis Roberts, 2:10.121, Honda RC51
7. Nicky Hayden, 2:10.343, Honda RC51
8. Doug Chandler, 2:10.633, Kawasaki ZX-7RR
9. Miguel Duhamel, 2:10.744, Honda RC51
10. Tommy Hayden, 2:10.823, Yamaha YZF-R7
11. Steve Rapp, 2:11.298, Ducati 996
12. Larry Pegram, 2:11.976, Ducati 996
13. Andy Meklau, 2:12.002, Ducati 996
14. Pascal Picotte, 2:12.425, H-D VR1000
15. Jordan Szoke, 2:14.490, H-D VR1000
16. Mike Smith, 2:20.311, H-D VR1000
17. Alan Schmidt, 2:20.583, Suzuki GSX-R750
18. Scott Hermersman, 2:20.615, Suzuki GSX-R750
19. Randall Mennenga, 2:20.671, Suzuki GSX-R750
20. Dean Mizdal, 2:22.189, Suzuki GSX-R750

Mladin’s time of 2:08.948 is under his track record of 2:09.068 set during Friday qualifying, but Mladin’s time from Friday will stand as the AMA only recognizes lap times from qualifying as records.

Rain is in the forecast for this afternoon at Road America.

By Glenn LeSanto
James Ellison led the European Superstock race from start to finish in Lausitzring today. The defending Champion was already nearly a second ahead of the pack by the end of the first lap and, despite a determined effort by rival Walter ‘Torto’ Tortoroglio, Ellison extended his lead lap by lap.

Torto managed to break away from a fierce battle for second and third in his attempt to catch Ellison. Both riders were riding Suzuki GSX-R1000s. This left Daniel Oliver on his RSV Aprilia, Mark Heckles on a Honda CBR929RR, Marty Nutt and Benny Jerzenbeck both on a GSX-R1000s to fight over the final podium position – and fight they did! As the race reached its final stages Heckles managed to pull away to take a comfortable third place behind winner Ellison and second place finisher Tortoroglio. Behind them there was drama at the end of the race when Nutt highsided. Oliver was right in his wheel tracks and stood his bike up, running straight into the stricken GSX-R of Nutt. If Oliver had kept his line, he may have avoided joining Nutt on the tarmac and scored the highest finish of the season for himself and the Spanish-entered Aprilia RSV.

The result means Ellison extended his lead over Tortoroglio in the championship to 10 points. Nutt’s crash and subsequent DNF allowed Jerzenbeck to move up past him into third place in the points.

European Superstock Championship
Lausitzring, Germany – June 10th
Race result

Rider, nationality, manufacturer, race time

1. James Ellison, GBR, Suzuki, 24:40.943
2. Walter Tortoroglio, ITA, Suzuki, 24:47.593
3. Mark Heckles, GBR, Honda, 24:53.152
4. Benny Jerzenbeck, GER, Suzuki, 24:57.548
5. Giacomo Romanelli, ITA, Suzuki, 25:02.382
6. Gianluca Vizziello, ITA, Yamaha, 25:06.476
7. Dario Tosolini, ITA, Ducati, 25:07.011
8. Lorenzo Alfonsi, ITA, Ducati, 25:07.089
9. Andy Notman, GBR, Suzuki, 25:09.296
10. Markus Wegscheider, ITA, Suzuki, 25:14.216

Championship standings
Rider, Points

1. Ellison, 95
2. Tortoroglio, 85
3. Jerzenbeck, 43
4. Heckles, 42
5. Tosolini, 36
6. Alfonsi, 34
7. Nutt, 31
8. Wegscheider, 27
9. Vizziello, 20
10. Oliver, 19

By Glenn LeSanto

The Supersport World Championship race in Lausitzring was stopped after seven laps when it started to rain. After the restart the same three
Australians who led won the deluged race in Philip Island, Australia, shot to the front of the pack. At the end of the race the podium order was exactly the same as in Australia – with Kevin Curtain winning from Andrew Pitt and Adam Fergusson.

The first part of the race looked initially like it might be a benefit for the Ten Kate Honda team when both the team’s riders took off in front of the pack. Foret got a great start – but the organizers deemed it was a jumped start, so the Frenchman was forced to take a stop-and-go penalty.

Meanwhile, Fore’s teammate Pere Riba crashed out of second place. The Ten Kate weekend had gone from high to low in just a few minutes.

James Whitham was another rider who tasted the Lausitzring tarmac – crashing out of the first lap. Championship leader and Whitham’s Belgarda Yamaha teammate Paolo Casoli finished a miserable weekend (for him) in 15th place. Casoli still leads the Championship points but now Kevin Curtain has closed the gap dramatically, to only 3 points.


World Supersport race result:
1. Kevin Curtain, Australia (Honda) 45:56.744
2. Adam Fergusson, Australia (Honda) 46:04.969
3. Andrew Pitt, Australia (Kawasaki) 46:11.320
4. Vittoriano Guareschi, Italy (Ducati) 46:17.221
5. Christophe Cogan, France (Yamaha) 46:23.347
6. Iain MacPherson, GB (Kawasaki) 46:38.918
7. Jorg Teuchert, Germany (Yamaha) 46:54.237
8. Chris Vermeulen, Australia (Honda) 46:57.198
9. Christian Kellner, Germany (Yamaha) 46:58.779 10. Werner Daemen, Belgium (Yamaha) 47:14.077

World Championship points after six of 11 rounds:
1. Paolo Casoli, Italy (Yamaha), 84
2. Curtain 81
3. Pitt, 72
4. Teuchert, 63
5. Karl Muggeridge, Australia (Suzuki), 57
6. Pere Riba, Spain (Honda), 53
7. Guareschi, 43
8. Fergusson, 40
9. Piergiorgio Bontempi, Italy (Yamaha) 39
10. James Whitham, GB (Yamaha) 38.

Manufacturers points:
1. Yamaha, 115
2. Honda, 101
3. Kawasaki, 72
4. Suzuki, 64
5. Ducati, 43

Next round: Misano, San Marino – June 24

By Glenn LeSanto
Colin Edwards led the first World Superbike race ever held at the all-new Lausitzring circuit from start to finish. The Castrol Honda rider, and defending World Champion, resisted pressure from Britain’s Neil Hodgson in the early stages of the race. Then, as Hodgson faded back to an eighth-place finish Troy Bayliss took over the job of pressuring Edwards for the lead. But Edwards kept his nerves, and lap times, steady and matched Bayliss lap for lap keeping a cushion of just under a second. No matter how hard Bayliss pushed he couldn’t close the gap and Edwards rode to his third win of the season.

Troy Corser had also been an early podium contender but he too slipped back down the field to finish fifth. As Corser slipped back Tady Okada and Franky Chili pushed up through the field. Okada made it two Hondas on the podium with a third-place finish.

The win means that Edwards snuck back in front of Corser in Championship points, taking second spot behind Bayliss. Bayliss now leads the title by 180 points to Edwards’ 166. Corser is now back in third with 154 points and Pierfrancesco Chili, who finished fourth in the race, now has 132 points.

Fuchs Kawasaki rider Gregorio Lavilla recovered from a start line incident that caused both a delay of the start and a shortening of the race by one lap to battle up through the pack to a sixth-place finish. Just moments before the lights went out, Lavilla stalled his engine, left his grid position and bump started the bike but the officials had already called a halt to the start. The race was subsequently restarted but one lap shorter, 23 instead of 24 laps, to allow the extra warm-up lap forced by the restart.

First World Superbike Race Results:
1. Colin Edwards, USA (Honda) 38:47.683
2. Troy Bayliss, Australia (Ducati) 38:48.346
3. Tady Okada, Japan (Honda) 38:50.493
4. Pier-Francesco Chili, Italy (Suzuki) 39:07.460
5. Troy Corser, Australia (Aprilia) 39:08.301
6. Gregorio Lavilla, Spain (Kawasaki) 39:10.504
7. Regis Laconi, France (Aprilia) 39:13.960
8. Neil Hodgson, GB (Ducati) 39:15.691
9. Hitoyasu Izutsu, Japan (Kawasaki) 39:18.367
10. Stephane Chambon, France (Suzuki) 39:18.712
11. Ben Bostrom, USA (Ducati) 39:19.336
12. Akira Yanagawa, Japan (Kawasaki, 39:30.230
13. Martin Cragill, Australia (Ducati) 39:40.225
14. Broc Parkes, Australia (Ducati) 39:40.427
15. Steve Martin, Australia (Ducati) 39:41.723

By Glenn LeSanto
Defending Sidecar World Champion Steve Webster and his passenger Paul Woodhead got their first win of the season in appalling conditions at
Lausitzring today. While others literally lost their way in the poor visibility caused by a combination of spray, driving rain and misting
visors, the pair cruised to a clear win over rivals, and title leaders, Klaffenbock and Parzer. Webster’s teammate Ian Guy went straight on at one of the new circuit’s corners, using the escape lane when he misjudged the corner due to visibility problems. He was followed by several more outfits who were simply following Guy’s tail lights as they could see little else in the conditions.

After the race several teams protested after it was found that Klaffenbock’s outfit was too low to the ground.

Klaffenbock and his passenger Parzer plus Hauzenberger and his passenger Hanni were subsequently excluded from the results of the Superside race for failing to conform to technical regulations regarding the ground clearance of the sidecar outfit. This means they both lose the points they gained today. Klaffenbock had finished finished second in the race, over 17 seconds behind Webster. Muldoon and Crone had their first podium of the season finishing third. Steve Abbott still lies second in the title race despite retiring from the race.

Race result
Position, Rider – passenger, nationality (rider), race time,
1. Webster – Woodhead, GBR, 48:20.020
2. DQ Klaffenbock – Parzer, AUT, 48:37.098
3. Muldoon – Crone, GBR, 50:32.098
4. Roscher – Neubert, GER, 1 lap down
5. DQ Hauzenberger – Hanni, AUT, 1 lap down

Championship Points
Rider, points
1. Klaffenbock, 95
2. Abbott, 53
3. Webster, 45
4. Hauzenberger, 42

1. Rich Oliver
2. Jimmy Filice
3. Perry Melneciuc
4. Michael Hannas
5. Eric Stephens
6. Chris Pyles
7. William Himmelsbach
8. Cory West
9. Roy de Groot
10. Chuck Sorensen

Oliver’s margin of victory was 47 seconds at the finish. In relative terms, Oliver was already turning into turn five as Filice crossed the start/finish line to begin his final lap.

By Glenn LeSanto

Championship leader Troy Bayliss survived a huge last corner slide to take victory in the second World Superbike race at Lausitzring in Germany. Neil Hodgson had been putting pressure on the Australian for several laps and closed relentlessly on the Australian. As Bayliss got on the power coming out of the final turn his back wheel slid sideways across the track, momentarily unseating the Infostrada Ducati rider. But Bayliss hung on and Hodgson, also riding a Ducati, wasn’t quite close enough to capitalize on the mistake. He also spun up the rear wheel when he tried to put on the power to pass the sliding Bayliss. Championship points leader Bayliss crossed the line just two tenths of a second ahead of GSE Ducati rider Hodgson.

Behind them – and by a fair distance – Colin Edwards recovered from a poor start to take an important third position finish. Troy Corser had slipped back down the order, losing valuable Championship points as several riders passed him, demoting him from an early third place to a seventh-place finish. The result means that Bayliss increased his lead again, having slipped back slightly in race one – which Edwards won. Bayliss is now on 205 points with Edwards in second spot on 182.

Hodgson’s result is his third podium in four races.

Hitoyasu Izutsu, riding again this weekend for the Fuchs Kawasaki team, scorched through from the back of the pack to take fourth. His progress was momentarily stalled when he tried to lap Kawasaki Bertocchi rider Michele Malatesta. The factory rider wasn’t pleased and made it known with a shake of the head as he finally rode by Malatesta. Izutsu might have caught Edwards with a few more laps, as he was eating into the American’s lead by seconds each lap, but time ran out for the All Japan Superbike Champion.

Pierfrancesco Chili was another rider who made progress up through the field to finish fifth on his Suzuki.

The luckless Ben Bostrom was going the other way, and despite his dirt track origins the American has always looked uncomfortable in full wet conditions and slid down the order. He was actually lapped by fellow Ducati riders Bayliss and Hodgson. Bostrom finished a lowly 10th.

Another Ducati pilot out of luck was Australian Broc Parkes. He was up with the leaders and looking strong until his gearshift lever retaining bolt fell out – ending his race. To say the Australian was disappointed at losing a possible podium finish through such a stupid problem would be a major understatement.

Bayliss leaves Lausitzring happy having consolidated his Championship points lead.

Troy Corser is less pleased – he’s slipped from second to third in the rankings. And Colin Edwards? He summed up his weekend like this: “I’m a bad loser and I’d rather have got the double win, but this is better than a poke in the eye.”


1. Bayliss, AUS, Ducati, 45:57.655s
2. Hodgson, GBR, Ducati, 45:57.884
3. Edwards, USA, Honda, 46:20.577
4. Izutsu, JPN, Kawasaki, 46:21.981
5. Chili, ITA, Suzuki, 46:30.239
6. Ruben Xaus, ESP, Ducati, 46:32.453
7. Corser, AUS, Aprilia, 46:35.278
8. Chambon, FRA, Suzuki, 46:36.256
9. Okada, JPN, Honda, 46:37.950
10. Akira Yanagawa, JPN, Kawasaki, 46:43.833

Superbike World Superbike Championship points after seven of 13 rounds:
1. Bayliss, 205
2. Edwards, 182
3. Corser, 163
4. Chili, 143
5. Hodgson, 131
6. Ben Bostrom, USA Ducati, 102
7. Yanagawa, 99
8. Gregorio Lavilla (Kawasaki) 87
9. Okada, 82
10. Regis Laconi, Spain, Aprilia, 75.


Manufacturers points:
1. Ducati, 263
2. Honda, 228
3. Aprilia, 182
4. Kawasaki, 165
5. Suzuki, 155
6. Yamaha, 20.

Next round: Misano, San Marino – June 24

Final 600cc Qualifying Times From Road America:

1. Tommy Hayden, 2:15.769, Yamaha
2. Aaron Yates, 2:16.041, Suzuki
3. Eric Bostrom, 2:16.356, Kawasaki
4. Kurtis Roberts, 2:16.509, Honda
5. Josh Hayes, 2:16.832, Honda
6. John Hopkins, 2:16.918, Suzuki
7. Miguel Duhamel, 2:17.445, Honda
8. Anthony Gobert, 2:17.643, Yamaha
9. Aaron Gobert, 2:17.783, Yamaha
10. Jimmy Moore, 2:17.818, Suzuki
11. Roger Lee Hayden, 2:17.872, Honda
12. Tom Kipp, 2:17.968, Suzuki
13. Jamie Hacking, 2:18.790, Suzuki
14. Jake Zemke, 2:19.164, Honda
15. Vincent Haskovec, 2:19.759, Suzuki
16. Grant Lopez, 2:19.940, Suzuki
17. Daigoro Suzuki, 2:20.236, Suzuki
18. Shawn Conrad, 2:21.044, Suzuki
19. Tyler Wadsworth, 2:21.420, Yamaha
20. J.J. Roetlin, 2:22.768, Suzuki

Yamaha rider Tommy Hayden’s 2:15.769 betters Kurtis Roberts’ 600cc Supersport lap record of 2:17.564 by almost two full seconds. Hayden’s Yamaha teammate Anthony Gobert crashed in Canada Corner early in the qualifying session but was able to continue after the delay.