The big one at Brands, WSBK round 10

[Gerben24]

This weekend WSBK is at Brands Hatch. I've been a couple of times, I love this event. Unfortunately, I won't be there this time.

I hope the dip between Paddock Hill bend and Druids isn't filled with water, with all the flooding going on in England.

It's good to see there will be a couple of wildcard entries at Brands. Tommy Hill will ride the Yamaha R6 in place of Kevin Curtain. I can't remember when it was the last time he rode an R6 competitively, but I really hope he does well. I think he's got talent.

Here's a list of wildcards and replacements in WSBK and WSS:

Superbike World Championship

• Stefano Cruciani (ITA) will ride the No.112 Celani Team Suzuki Italia in place of Alessandro Polita
• Marty Nutt (GBR) will ride the No.77 Nutttravel Yamaha YZF-R1
• Steve Martin (AUS) will make a single event appearance on the No.99 Yamaha YZF-R1

Supersport World Championship

• Tommy Hill (GBR) will ride the No.6 Yamaha World SSP Racing Team YZF-R6 in place of Kevin Curtain
• Matthieu Lagrive (FRA) will ride the No.81 Intermoto Czech Honda CBR600RR in place of Tatu Lauslehto
• Artutro Tizon (ESP) will ride the No.10 Yamaha Spain YZF-R6 in place of David Forner.
• Graeme Crowland (GBR) will ride the No.181 Team Benjan Motoren Honda CBR600RR in place of Nikola Milanovic

If it is dry the world superbike races will be between Bayliss and Haga (looking at their track-record)!!!!




PS. THIS IS THREAD NUMBER 2000 IN THE BIKE RACING FORUM! PARTY!!

[BootsOntheSide]

Steve Martin will be interesting - for the Virgin Media British Superbike team (who put Tommy Hill on a pole last year), with a view to him joining them for the rest of the BSB season - they are the only Pirelli team in the season, so his experience with those could help them?

[jhansen]

Good stuff for Steve Martin.

Go Haga and Bayliss!

[jhansen]

Originally Posted by Gerben24

PS. THIS IS THREAD NUMBER 2000 IN THE BIKE RACING FORUM!

Monumental! Colossal! Unbelievable!



Look out Rallying/Rallycross, we are coming after you!

[Knowlesy]

Pfft, we get that in a day in some of our forums.

WSBK back in Britain again then! Hopefully a home win for the fans, or Haga!

Haga and Bayliss are usually pretty mighty round here.

[jhansen]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

Pfft, we get that in a day in some of our forums.

The F1 forum is the mother-ship. The F1 discussion is riveting as well: politics, spy scandals, Lewis-mania, the FIA, seat swapping, court action, some guy named Bernie, and which driver has lost it. The F1 forum would crash Ten-Tenths if the on-track action matched the off-track action.

[Knowlesy]

As we discovered only too recently!

[Stephen Green]

Weather at Brands good at the moment. Plenty f sunshine and no sign of floods at all. In fact we had a two day car meeting last weekend and it was sunny both days! Forecast for the rest of the week looks pretty good too!

[Mr V]

Go Nori

[Stephen Green]

Sunny again today and the odd shower forecast for Thursday, getting better again for the weekend.

[chunder]

F1 forum is also a bit cliquey though, and i am findiing the rally/rallycross one like that too.

It seems certain people are allowed to make comments and certain people are not, hence goodness how many warnings slapped on me recently.

Seems if you dont like F1 youa re not allowed to complain about it on the forum coz whatever you say is seen as a personal attack on the poster, not at all!!

Better class of people in bikes! As i ahve said on there!!

(awaiting warning!)

[Stephen Green]

Consider yourself warned!

Please try to stick to the topic.

[gomick]

those boys aint wildcards .... i reckon lorenzo lanzi will finish 7th or 8th or even crash!

[Gerben24]

Originally Posted by BootsOntheSide

Steve Martin will be interesting - for the Virgin Media British Superbike team (who put Tommy Hill on a pole last year), with a view to him joining them for the rest of the BSB season - they are the only Pirelli team in the season, so his experience with those could help them?

It would be good yes, thing is, he is riding for the YZF Yamaha team, next to Nakatomi. Nakatomi did really well in BRNO, maybe with the help of Steve, they can go one better.
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2007/Aug/e/n070801a.htm

I know Steve has tested with the Virgin Media team, and he was REALLY impressed. So there is still a chance that he will end up riding for Virgin in the BSB.

[jhansen]

Morning times:

1 Troy Bayliss 1:26.608
2 James Toseland 1:26.647
Team Sterilgarda Ducati 999 R 1:27.206
4 Michel Fabrizio 1:27.517
5 Troy Corser 1:27.532
6 Lorenzo Lanzi 1:27.555
7 Noriyuki Haga 1:27.672
8 Regis Laconi 1:27.704
9 Roberto Rolfo 1:27.862
10 Karl Muggeridge 1:28.130
11 Fonsi Nieto 1:28.329
12 Yukio Kagayama 1:28.961
13 Max Neukirchner 1:29.013
14 Max Biaggi 1:29.129
15 Steve Martin 1:29.246

Afternoon times:

1 James Toseland 1:26.400
2 Troy Bayliss 1:26.625
3 Troy Corser 1:26.746
4 Ruben Xaus 1:26.815
5 Lorenzo Lanzi 1:27.268
6 Noriyuki Haga 1:27.351
7 Fonsi Nieto 1:27.507
8 Yukio Kagayama 1:27.544
9 Roberto Rolfo 1:27.763
10 Michel Fabrizio 1:27.823
11 Max Neukirchner 1:27.928
12 Karl Muggeridge 1:28.126
13 Regis Laconi 1:28.154
14 Max Biaggi 1:28.215
15 Steve Martin 1:28.262

Biaggi is having a tough time with Brands Hatch it would seem.

[Gerben24]

Qualify 2 times:

1 Troy Bayliss AUS Ducati Xerox 999F07 1min 26.207 secs
2 Troy Corser AUS Yamaha Motor Italia YZF R1 1min 26.387 secs
3 James Toseland GBR Ten Kate Honda CBR 1000RR 1min 26.4 secs
4 Ruben Xaus ESP GMB Racing Ducati 999F06 1min 26.815 secs
5 Lorenzo Lanzi ITA Ducati Xerox 999F07 1min 26.969 secs
6 Roberto Rolfo ITA Ten Kate Honda CBR 1000RR 1min 27.032 secs
7 Noriyuki Haga JPN Yamaha Motor Italia YZF R1 1min 27.064 secs
8 Regis Laconi FRA PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse ZX10R 1min 27.17 secs
9 Yukio Kagayama JPN Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra GSXR1000 K7 1min 27.178 secs
10 Michel Fabrizio ITA DFX Treme Honda CBR 1000RR 1min 27.183 secs
11 Steve Martin AUS Yamaha Motor France-Ipone YZF R1 1min 27.313 secs
12 Max Biaggi ITA Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra GSXR1000 K7 1min 27.342 secs
13 Max Neukirchner GER Suzuki Germany GSXR1000 K6 1min 27.345 secs
14 Fonsi Nieto ESP PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse ZX10R 1min 27.507 secs
15 Karl Muggeridge AUS Alto Evolution Honda CBR 1000RR 1min 27.859 secs
16 Shinichi Nakatomi JPN Yamaha Motor France-Ipone YZF R1 1min 28.033 secs
17 Jakub Smrz CZE Team Caracchi Ducati SC 999 F05 1min 28.219 secs
18 Marty Nutt GBR T&G/Nuttravel.com 1min 28.548 secs
19 Dean Ellison GBR Team Pedercini Ducati 999RS 1min 29.03 secs
20 Lorenzo Morelli ITA Team Pedercini Ducati 999RS 1min 30.289 secs
21 S. Cruciani ITA Celani Suzki Italia GSXR1000 K6 1min 30.638 secs

[Gerben24]

WSBK Superpole – Brands Hatch:

1. Troy Bayliss
2. James Toseland
3. Noriyuki Haga
4. Yukio Kagayama
5. Troy Corser
6. Max Biaggi
7. Ruben Xaus
8. Lorenzo Lanzi
9. Roberto Rolfo
10. Michel Fabrizio


WSS qualifying times (2) – Brands Hatch:

1. Sebastien Charpentier
2. Kenan Sofuoglu
3. Katsuaki Fujiwara
4. Broc Parkes
5. Robbin Harms
6. Tommy Hill
7. Massimo Roccoli
8. Craig Jones
9. Barry Veneman
10. Lorenzo Alfonsi

[bestfit]

WSBK Race 1

1 Toseland
2 Corser
3 Biaggi
4 Xaus
5 Nieto
6 Rolfo
7 Haga
8 Laconi
9 Lanzi
10 Neukirchner

Bayliss and Kagayama crashed out. Haga ran off but rejoined.

[Knowlesy]

That is a championship hammer blow from JT there.

[bestfit]

Yeah they won't catch him now and good luck to him he has been the class of the field this year.

[Knowlesy]

JT does the double....at last!

And what a place to do it.

[Gerben24]

WSBK RACE 2:

1 Toseland J. Hannspree Ten Kate Honda. Honda CBR1000RR 36'34.177 25
2 Haga N. Yamaha Motor Italia. Yamaha YZF-R1 36'35.863 25
3 Corser T. Yamaha Motor Italia. Yamaha YZF-R1 36'35.937 25
4 Fabrizio M. D.F.X. Corse. Honda CBR1000RR 36'42.633 25
5 Kagayama Y. Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra. Suzuki GSX-R1000 K7 36'43.165 25
6 Xaus R. Team Sterilgarda. Ducati 999 F06 36'43.647 25
7 Bayliss T. Ducati Xerox Team. Ducati 999 F07 36'52.490 25
8 Biaggi M. Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra. Suzuki GSX-R1000 K7 36'53.293 25
9 Laconi R. Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse. Kawasaki ZX-10R 36'54.678 25
10 Neukirchner M. Suzuki Germany. Suzuki GSX-R1000 K6 36'54.763 25
11 Rolfo R. Hannspree Ten Kate Honda. Honda CBR1000RR 36'55.985 25
12 Lanzi L. Ducati Xerox Team. Ducati 999 F07 36'59.060 25
13 Nieto F. Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse. Kawasaki ZX-10R 37'06.165 25
14 Muggeridge K. Alto Evolution Honda. Honda CBR1000RR 37'07.430 25
15 Nakatomi S. Yamaha YZF. Yamaha YZF-R1 37'11.045 25
16 Martin S. Yamaha YZF. Yamaha YZF-R1 37'12.149 25
17 Ellison D. Team Pedercini. Ducati 999RS 37'41.393 25
18 Morelli L. D.F.X. Corse. Honda CBR1000RR 37'42.474 25
19 Smrz J. Team Caracchi Ducati SC. Ducati 999 F05 7'30.073 5
20 Cruciani S. Celani Team Suzuki Italia. Suzuki GSX-R1000 K6

[Gerben24]

In race 1 Bayliss got put aside by both Toseland and Haga kinda brutally, racing at its best. Than Bayliss seemed to be in a hurry to get them back and lowsided while breaking for Druids. His bodylanguage said it all, bye bye championship.

Toseland just had the edge over Haga in both races. It was a shame that Biaggi was slow starting AGAIN, cause he had the pace in both races. Oh and I know, he wasn't slow starting in race 2 . He was very impressive though.

Kagayama his crash in race 1 looked really scary, cause his bike was trashed and I didn't understand the signals the marshalls were making. Luckily Kagayama didn't have to go to intensive care this time.

Since his ride on the Motogp machine, Fabrizio has been really impressive. He was good in Brno, although that wasn't a surprise as he was good there the year before, but he surprised me at Brands, coming home in 4th in the 2nd race!!!

The championship is James' to lose now. A 66 points lead he has at the moment!

He will be missed in WSBK next year. My girlfriend thinks that as well, she will miss his on-track celebrations she says

[Gerben24]

Superglue, King Kenan (whatever you wanna call him) is World Champion supersport in 2007. He came in 2nd behind Broc Parkes on the Yamaha R6!

It is the 6th time in a row (I think) Ten Kate produce the champion in the world supersport championship.

Instead of Motogp, will Kenan Sofuoglu make motorcycle racing popular in Turkey? There are rumours that Turkey will be on the WSBK calendar in 2008. I don't doubt that Sofuoglu's success had something to do with that deal!

The race was brilliant. Craig 'crash' Jones binned it while leading. That boy has talent, but he has to stay on the bike. The race for 3rd was great fun. Tommy Hill did a great job, but just wasn't quick enough in the end to fight for this place. Roccoli overtook Robin Harms OVER THE GRASS while crossing the finish line...

1 Parkes B. Yamaha World SSP Racing T.. Yamaha YZF-R6 34'34.688 23
2 Sofuoglu K. Hannspree Ten Kate Honda. Honda CBR600RR 34'38.346 23
3 Roccoli M. Yamaha Lorenzini by Leoni. Yamaha YZF-R6 34'40.244 23
4 Harms R. Stiggy Motorsport Honda. Honda CBR600RR 34'40.261 23
5 Hill T. Yamaha World SSP Racing T.. Yamaha YZF-R6 34'41.194 23
6 Foret F. Team Gil Motor Sport. Kawasaki ZX-6R 34'44.801 23
7 Alfonsi L. Althea Honda Team. Honda CBR600RR 34'45.102 23
8 Veneman B. Pioneer Hoegee Suzuki Racing. Suzuki GSX-R600 34'48.924 23
9 Riba P. Team Gil Motor Sport. Kawasaki ZX-6R 34'50.666 23
10 Lagrive M. Intermoto Czech. Honda CBR600RR 34'53.112 23
11 Vizziello G. RG Team. Yamaha YZF-R6 34'59.771 23
12 Lascorz J. Glaner Motocard.com. Honda CBR600RR 34'59.842 23
13 Gimbert S. Yamaha - GMT 94. Yamaha YZF-R6 35'00.130 23
14 Leblanc G. Vazy Racing Team. Honda CBR600RR 35'03.645 23
15 Charpentier S. Hannspree Ten Kate Honda. Honda CBR600RR 35'06.829 23
16 Sanchini M. Intermoto Czech. Honda CBR600RR 35'11.245 23
17 Fores J. HP Racing. Honda CBR600RR 35'12.035 23
18 Checa D. Yamaha - GMT 94. Yamaha YZF-R6 35'13.384 23
19 Boccolini G. Team PMS Kawasaki Supported. Kawasaki ZX-6R 35'13.458 23
20 Gowland G. Team Benjan Motoren. Honda CBR600RR 35'13.641 23
21 Ivanov V. Vector Racing Team. Yamaha YZF-R6 35'17.281 23
22 Praia M. Racing Team Parkalgar. Honda CBR600RR 35'22.481 23
23 Tizon A. Yamaha Spain. Yamaha YZF-R6 35'30.573 23
24 Günther J. CRS Grand Prix. Honda CBR600RR 35'30.875 23
25 Salom D. Yamaha Spain. Yamaha YZF-R6 35'53.101 22
26 Fujiwara K. Althea Honda Team. Honda CBR600RR 24'08.255 16
27 Kallio V. Pioneer Hoegee Suzuki Racing. Suzuki GSX-R600 18'23.670 12
28 Brookes J. Stiggy Motorsport Honda. Honda CBR600RR 16'44.423 11
29 Sanna S. Racing Team Parkalgar. Honda CBR600RR 16'53.730 11
30 Nannelli G. Team Caracchi Ducati SC. Ducati 749R 15'20.069 10
31 Zaiser C. LBR Racing Team. Ducati 749R 7'53.950 5
32 Magda A. Vector Racing Team. Yamaha YZF-R6 12'01.898 5
33 Jones C. Revè Ekerold Honda Racing. Honda CBR600RR 6'03.635 4

[gomick]

congrats to james toseland on the double win at his home race - he has definitely made the announcement that he is going to moto gp at the right time & as most probably world superbike champ!

reckon troy bayliss will come out & dominate now that the title is gone - hope so anyway

great ride by broc parkes in the supersport race & congrats to kenan sofuoglo on his championshp win