ROAD RACE
FIM WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 10 / SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2016
EUROSPEEDWAY VERWALTUNGS / LAUSITZRING, GERMANY
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RACE ONE
1. Chaz Davies (Duc)
2. Tom Sykes (Kaw)
3. Nicky Hayden (Hon)
4. Jordi Torres (BMW)
5. Leon Camier (MV)
RACE TWO
1. Jonathan Rea (Kaw)
2. Alex De Angelis (Apr)
3. Xavi Fores (Duc)
4. Leon Camier (MV)
5. Sylvain Guintoli (Yam)
WORLDSSP
1. Kenan Sofuoglu (Kaw)
2. Niki Tuuli (Yam)
3. Jules Cluzel (MV)
4. PJ Jacobsen (Hon)
5. Federico Caricasulo (Hon)
so he has great hopes for more
on his home patch on October 2.
America's PJ Jacobsen
scored fourth, fighting off an-
other tough young Honda nut
that is Federico Caricasulo.
"Today was really good for
us," Jacobsen said. "A fourth in
the race felt like a podium to me,
given how much we struggled
this weekend. I really couldn't
figure the track out and find the
right setup to be fully competi-
tive. In the race, I never gave up
and kept going and did my
best time on the final lap. I just
wish the race could have been
longer! Thanks to the team for
never giving up as well. We'll
come back stronger in Magny-
Cours, a track where I won last
year. I'm really looking forward to
racing there." CN
"Tuuli was a surprise to me,
but I had a very good pace,"
said Sofuoglu of his win. "After
six or seven laps I had a real tire
problems, so much spinning and
vibration. We chose a different
one, the harder one, to have a
full race easier but it did not hap-
pen the way we expected. But
no problem."
Tuuli, just 1.7 seconds back
at the flag but never too far from
Sofuoglu's GOAT shadow in this
contest, races in Finland and
is not a WSBK regular by any
means. "Sisu" is an untranslat-
able Finnish word meaning spirit,
guts, indomitability—all those
good things—and on this showing
at least, Tuuli has it in spades.
A happy podium returnee was
Jules Cluzel, on a revamped and
improved official MV Agusta F3,
PJ Jacobsen narrowly missed out on
getting on the WorldSSP podium.
