VOL. 50 ISSUE 23 JUNE 11, 2013
three were covered
Sam Lowes won his fourth-straight
nd. With van der Mark
World Supersport race.
ck.
wledged that Lowes
er yet again, but thinks
underlying electronics
ding him back.
to make the pace slow
eeded to win and Sam
even second but third
make up some points,"
ooks hard now in the
m being honest, and
former champion. "To be honest we had a
here just with luck, he deplan together with Kenan and during the race
39-point lead. He is always
I could see that it may work out okay as we
and now he has won four
were all together. I think van der Mark came
along quite late in the race and disturbed our
py man after two tough
plan quite a bit and I was also surprised to
looked like a man with a
see him there. I am quite upset with the little
, which he later admitted to. mistake I made in the last lap, as I could have
and, after two difficult
had the race win but maybe next time in Imola
t with pleasure," said the
I will."
The race two win
went to Laverty,
the factory Aprilia
rider making up for
a first-race DNF.
race was all Eugene's anyway he was faster."
Melandri was mystified why his
second-race 'B' tire was not the
same as his first-race 'B' tire.
"The bike was not changed
from race one, but even during
the second lap the rear tire was
chattering a lot on both sides and
even on the straights," Melandri
said. "From the third lap I lost
grip and from then the tire was
P85
Briefly...
The new rules for the 2014 season on were seen as important in
some areas of cost reduction, but
for many other teams the sum of
300,000 Euros per bike, including spare engines, is aspirational,
as they profess not to have spent
that much on their bikes over a
season. The Pedercini bikes cost
from 60,000 Euros upwards, while
even a full-on Ducati in privateer
trim costs 125,000 Euros or so,
with each new engine coming in at
25,000 Euros. In a one-rider team,
without factory levels of testing,
that is a season probably a lot less
than 300,000 Euros.
The one-day test on July 1, the
Monday after the Imola round, will
be the only official WSBK Organization test left in the season, and
will be open to World Superbike
and World Supersport teams who
want to stay behind in Italy after the
seventh round. The final line-up
will not be confirmed until one day
before the test, but there will be
separate sessions for each class
as usual. The new circuits of Istanbul in Turkey and Buddh in India will
not feature a day of testing on the
Wednesday before first practice,
but those two races will get 90 minutes instead of 45 minutes of Friday
morning free practice to get the riders used to the new layouts.
The flyaway trail in 2014 looks set
to include not only Australia and
Qatar in one journey, but rounds
in India again and Malaysia, with
even Argentina and Austin, Texas, spoken of at Portimao. Laguna
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