In the final test session at Moscow Raceway ahead of this weekend’s first ever World Superbike Russian round, Carlos Checa once again headed the top of the timesheets after leading this morning session.
Lap times were considerably lower with the riders now knowing the new track and the teams beginning to refine their set-ups and the gaps between riders remained well contained.
This morning Checa posted a best lap of 1.
37.
189, while this afternoon he topped the charts with a 1.
35.
891 and like this morning he was followed by BMW’s Leon Haslam who was still a little less than two tenths adrift.
Tom Sykes moved up to third and Marco Melandri also jumped up to take fourth, while Hiroshi Aoyama who suprised everyone with his third this morning, dropped back 15 positions and finished in a lowly 18th.
Standings leader Max Biaggi also improved to take 5th and he was half a second off pace and Chaz Davies also made a big improvement to finish 6th after this morning’s 11th spot.
Following Davies was Althea Ducati’s Davide Giugliano in 7th who recovered from his crash this morning as did Aprilia’s Eugene Laverty, who jumped into the top ten to take 8th, Niccolò Canepa was another rider that crashed this morning moved into 9th.
Sylvain Guintoli who was suspended from this morning’s test after getting a red card warning (the don’t give them in races and they give them tests?) closed out the top ten.
WSBK Moscow – 2nd session results01- Carlos Checa – Althea Racing – Ducati 1198 – 1’35.
891 02- Leon Haslam – BMW Motorrad Motorsport – BMW S1000RR – + 0.
180 03- Tom Sykes – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 0.
228 04- Marco Melandri – BMW Motorrad Motorsport – BMW S1000RR – + 0.
413 05- Max Biaggi – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.
530 06- Chaz Davies – ParkinGO MTC Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.
746 07- Davide Giugliano – Althea Racing – Ducati 1198 – + 0.
825 08- Eugene Laverty – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 0.
932 09- Niccolò Canepa – Red Devils Roma – Ducati 1198 – + 0.
967 10- Sylvain Guintoli – PATA Racing Team – Ducati 1198 – + 0.
974 11- Lorenzo Zanetti – PATA Racing Team – Ducati 1198 – + 1.
008 12- Jonathan Rea – Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 1.
052 13- Leon Camier – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 1.
109 14- Ayrton Badovini – BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet – BMW S1000RR – + 1.
187 15- John Hopkins – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 1.
272 16- Michel Fabrizio – BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet – BMW S1000RR – + 1.
306 17- David Salom – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 1.
445 18- Hiroshi Aoyama – Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 1.
452 19- Loris Baz – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 1.
842 20- David McFadden – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 3.
276 21- Alexander Lundh – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 3.
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