ROUND 11/SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
INTERCITY ISTANBUL PARK/ISTANBUL, TURKEY
WORLD SUPERBIKE
P88
WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP
LAVERTY TIMES T
LAVERTY'S CLEAN SWEEP PUTS HIM BACK
INTO CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION
BY GORDON RITCHIE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
I
t has been a while since Eugene Laverty won both races
at a World Superbike event, but
he did it in convincing fashion at
the vast Istanbul Park circuit in
Turkey, in the first-ever meeting
for this class in the country.
Laverty delivered two sucker
punches to Superpole winner
Tom Sykes as he followed behind the English rider until Sykes
had to slow, then he set off and
was never challenged again not by Sykes or by the race one
second-place man, Marco Melandri. Laverty put it all together
seamlessly against a backdrop of
uncertainty about his future with
Aprilia in World Superbike. And
then after race two, he discovered that his option for 2014 was
renewed.
He therefore left the track
stoked that he is still in with a
decent chance of the championship in 2013, yet also punctured
by the news that Marco Melandri
is set to take any Aprilia factory
ride alongside Sylvain Guintoli,
who has a contract with the team
