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ROUND: 10/SEPTEMBER 1, 2013 NÜRBURGRING AUTODROM/NÜRBURGRING, GERMANY WORLD SUPERBIKE P74 WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP Although Marco Melandri made the pass on Tom Sykes for the lead, scoring reverted back a lap putting him second. Gold & Bet BMW's Chaz Davies gets his third win of the year in the shortened race two at the Nurburgring. Rea went into the barriers hard enough to break his left femur, and Camier shared his helicopter to the hospital as the Suzuki rider suffered a suspected haematoma No-Burgring For SBK Looks like, for the second time in the cycle of the series, the Nürburgring pilgrimage will be off the menu for a while after the mountain circuit in the far west of Germany has come to the end of its current contract. Purists and fanatics have always hated the new Nürburgring compared to the Wagnerian Nordschleife, which was built on a scale no modern track can match. Or would want to. This 'Green Hell' runs around and alongside the GP circuit, sneering from its vantage point of legend and mythology. What seemed like a sanitized, sterilized too-modern short new to his neck, but was later cleared of danger after a scan. Camier was lucky to miss Rea as he went in only a few seconds after Rea had fallen, and was uncomfortGP circuit in 1984 is now seen as a veritable rollercoaster compared to places like Valencia, Misano or any number of thoroughly modern 21st century GP or World Superbike tracks. Rollercoaster? Do not mention the Nürburgring rollercoaster. In a vain attempt to bring in more visitors for more periods of the year than just race weekends there has been a huge white elephant of leisure development - shopping arcades and meeting points - to one side of the Nürburgring. But the biggest folly so far has been the rollercoaster. It was designed to give you the same acceleration and G-force thrills as a Formula One car. ably close to Rea's trajectory. Add in Loris Baz' crash in morning warm-up that left him with a fracture of his C2 vertebra (thankfully with no spinal or neuIt never seems to work. The Nürburgring in 2013 certainly does work as a racetrack and is a favorite with many riders. It will be a shame for World Superbike to not go the Nürburgring each year, a track that survives on the legend and location of the Nordschleife in some ways but which is also a top modern circuit in others. Picturesque, challenging, undulating and pretty safe in general, what could have been a warm goodbye to the Nürburgring was spoiled by