Crutchlow fights hard for fourth in a hot second race at Misano

There were no easy points to be had today for the Yamaha Sterilgarda team as a hot track surface and rapidly disappearing grip tested the skills of both riders. Despite being mobbed by riders in the first corner of race two, Cal Crutchlow fought back with an inspired push, coming from ninth all the way up to take third from Michel Fabrizio by lap 19. He held for a further three laps but was passed back with two laps to go, taking fourth at the line. Race one had seen Crutchlow lose the front early on as he pushed on to catch the leaders, forcing retirement from the race. Race two also saw Crutchlow make the new lap record as he worked his way through the pack, scoring an impressive 1'36.546. Team mate James Toseland also experienced a tough race day at the Misano circuit. Starting from a less than perfect 13th on the grid on the hard to overtake track, Toseland fought to pass several riders, taking tenth at the line. Race two saw him losing the front end going into a corner on the tenth lap and forcing early retirement. Crutchlow leaves Misano in tenth place in the championship standings on 120 points, just ten behind Leon Camier in ninth. Team mate Toseland sits in seventh on 138 points, just 23 points adrift of Checa in fifth as they head to Brno in two weeks time.

James Toseland, Yamaha Sterilgarda World Superbike Team, (10th, DNF) "What can you say, another tough weekend. I've got the pace when the tyre grip is good but just find it difficult when losing the grip on the bike to keep with the other bikes coming off the corners. We need to work hard on this area as it's so important. We'll meet about it tonight, if we can improve that it'll be a big help. The time I'm losing on the corners to the others means I have to keep catching up on the brakes which means pushing the front, which is why I crashed in the second. Brno is a little bit faster and flowing so if we can keep the revs high we shouldn't have too many problems." Massimo Meregalli, Yamaha Sterilgarda World Superbike Team Manager "After the test last week we were expecting better results. By Friday we realised this weekend was going to be tougher than we thought. Cal did a good job in the second race, although unfortunately he crashed in the first. He didn't have the best start in the second and he was pushing really hard to catch the front pack. Unfortunately this meant he destroyed his rear tyre which meant at the end the rear grip was suffering but he pushed to the line for fourth. James had a difficult weekend, for sure starting from the fourth row is always hard. He did what he could and unfortunately he didn't finish the second race due to a crash. Fortunately he is not hurt. Tuesday and Wednesday we will go to Imola to test and hopefully we can fix some of the issues we have."

Circuit Length: 4060 Weather: Hot and Sunny

Lap Record: 1'37.135 (Noriyuki Haga, 01/01/2009) Fastest Lap Ever: 1'35.001 (Troy Corser, 27/06/2010) Last Years Winner: Jonathan Rea

2010 WSB San Marino - Misano 27/06/2010

Race 1 - 24 Laps

Pos.	Rider	Manu.	Nat.	Total Time
1	Max Biaggi	Aprilia	ITA	38'59.319
2	Carlos Checa	Ducati	ESP	0'00.387
3	Troy Corser	BMW	AUS	0'00.822
4	Michel Fabrizio	Ducati	ITA	0'04.911
5	Sylvain Guintoli	Suzuki	FRA	0'05.916
6	Leon Camier	Aprilia	GBR	0'08.658
7	Noriyuki Haga	Ducati	JPN	0'11.872
8	Leon Haslam	Suzuki	GBR	0'11.907
9	Shane Byrne	Ducati	GBR	0'16.490
10	James Toseland	Yamaha	GBR	0'18.458
11	Luca Scassa	Ducati	ITA	0'18.646
12	Lorenzo Lanzi	Ducati	ITA	0'19.315
13	Jonathan Rea	Honda	GBR	0'25.405
14	Max Neukirchner	Honda	GER	0'31.671
15	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki	GBR	0'39.658

Race 2 - 24 Laps

Pos.	Rider	Manu.	Nat.	Total Time
1	Max Biaggi	Aprilia	ITA	38'58.149
2	Leon Haslam	Suzuki	GBR	0'04.095
3	Michel Fabrizio	Ducati	ITA	0'04.631
4	Cal Crutchlow	Yamaha	GBR	0'05.014
5	Carlos Checa	Ducati	ESP	0'06.256
6	Sylvain Guintoli	Suzuki	FRA	0'07.677
7	Shane Byrne	Ducati	GBR	0'10.144
8	Luca Scassa	Ducati	ITA	0'10.942
9	Noriyuki Haga	Ducati	JPN	0'13.640
10	Troy Corser	BMW	AUS	0'16.279
11	Leon Camier	Aprilia	GBR	0'17.799
12	Jonathan Rea	Honda	GBR	0'22.793
13	Lorenzo Lanzi	Ducati	ITA	0'24.131
14	Max Neukirchner	Honda	GER	0'28.212
15	Chris Vermeulen	Kawasaki	AUS	0'36.551

Best Lap

Rider	Manu.	Nat.	Total Time
Carlos Checa	Ducati	ESP	1'36.670

Rider Standings

27/06/2010

Pos.	Rider	Manu.	Nat.	Points
1.	Max Biaggi	Aprilia	ITA	307
2.	Leon Haslam	Suzuki	GBR	270
3.	Carlos Checa	Ducati	ESP	172
4.	Jonathan Rea	Honda	GBR	158
5.	Noriyuki Haga	Ducati	JPN	151
6.	Troy Corser	BMW	AUS	149
7.	James Toseland	Yamaha	GBR	138
8.	Michel Fabrizio	Ducati	ITA	131
9.	Leon Camier	Aprilia	GBR	130
10.	Cal Crutchlow	Yamaha	GBR	120
11.	Sylvain Guintoli	Suzuki	FRA	116
12.	Shane Byrne	Ducati	GBR	97
13.	Jakub Smrz	Ducati	CZE	61
14.	Luca Scassa	Ducati	ITA	53
15.	Ruben Xaus	BMW	ESP	53

Manufacturer Standings

27/06/2010

Pos.	Manufacturer	Points
1.	Aprilia	313
2.	Suzuki	283
3.	Ducati	250
4.	Yamaha	177
5.	Honda	169
6.	BMW	152
7.	Kawasaki	47