WORLD SUPERBIKE
WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 1/FEBRUARY 21, 2015
PHILLIP ISLAND CIRCUIT/PHILLIP ISLAND, AUSTRALIA
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for all along.
"It is just fantastic," Haslam
said. "All the hard work, all the
broken bones, all the opera-
tions, it makes up for all of it—just
that one victory."
It was game on for Ducati
also, as Chaz Davies was third
on each occasion and now
happy that he can take his bike
from track to track with more
consistency than before; and at
a greater race pace.
Davies felt that the new tech
rules that limit tuning to cam-
shafts (and little else really)
helped level the playing field
this year and it looks like he was
right. He was only .496 and
.298 of a second off the wins,
never mind second places.
"I finally broke my spell at Phil-
lip Island, only five years trying,"
said Davies. "I have had some
rotten, rotten luck… I think I have
not finished about 80 percent
of the races I have started here
since my World Supersport and
World Superbike career started,
so it felt like I was owed podiums.
They confirmed to me that we are
starting on a different level."
All three top bikes had the
