VOL. 53 ISSUE 8 MARCH 1, 2016 P59
(Left) Good bye Moto2, hello WSS! Krummenacher celebrated his WSS arrival with victory for Kawasaki.
(Below) Guintoli showed flashes of speed with the new YZF-R1 but dropped back late on the second race.
himself after a third place on
Saturday and then a career-best
second on Sunday.
"To finish second today is an
amazing result, it's been a great
weekend and the team did an
incredible job to improve the
bike," said van der Mark. "We
couldn't have had a better start
to the season."
Ducati riders took the only
other podiums on show—Davies
second on day one after a mas-
sive and almost successful lunge
past pace controlling leader
Jonathan Rea, and Davide
Giugliano, Rea's teammate,
who added a confident third to a
commendable fourth place from
Saturday's race one.
The first race podium spread—
Rea, Davies and van der Mark—
was only 0.487 seconds. Race
two's Rea, van der Mark and
Giugliano headliners were still
only 1.472 seconds apart.
Right behind Giugliano in race
two, after finding tire and setup
limits the hard way in his first
modern era WorldSBK race on
Saturday, Nicky Hayden learned
a lot and found enough pace
for fourth place, ending up just
1.5 seconds off a win in his first
ten Kate/Honda experience of
racing.
Tom Sykes, on pole for the
31st time in his career on Satur-
day, shortly before leading the
field away on Saturday's 22-lap
race, led race one for a while, as
did Rea.
