ROAD RACE
FIM WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 10 / SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2016
EUROSPEEDWAY VERWALTUNGS / LAUSITZRING, GERMANY
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the dry at least, and the 19-lap
race was dry in the WorldSSP
Championship at Lausitzring.
Twenty-year-old Finnish rider
Niki Tuuli (Kallio racing Yamaha)
had other ideas and chased So-
fuoglu hard, very hard, as Kenan
was experiencing the effects of
an unwise hard tire choice on
the cool Sunday track surface.
It took all of Sofuoglu's steel
and skills to provide him with his
fifth race win of 2016, and doom
his teammate Randy Krum-
menacher (sixth in even more
grip woes) to try and make up
a 53-point differential over the
next three rounds. With only 75
points as a maximum, even if
Krummenacher won all three?
That looks too hard, six weeks or
so out of from the finale.
condition because the track was
really slippery and unpredict-
able and everyone was making
mistakes. I think I could get to
the podium because the bike
was really good, but I made a
mistake a few laps to go, trying
to catch Fores."
With three rounds left after
Lausitz the championship fight is
still theoretically three-way, with
Rea at 393 points, Sykes with
346 and Davies at 295. But only
Sykes can catch Rea, however
slim his chances.
WORLD SUPERSPORT
Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Puc-
cetti Racing) was a nailed-on
winner before a wheel had been
turned in the race. So high was
his pace relative to his peers, in
Hayden, but Leon Camier was
only half a second back from him
in fifth on his official MV Agusta
Reparto Corse four.
Camier went one better in
race two, but still just missed out
on his first MV podium.
"I am really happy with the
result, it is really important to get
so close to the podium," Camier
said after Saturday's race. "I am
sure if we could improve the
power we could be a lot stron-
ger. We made some progress
and we still have something to
improve with the chassis for to-
morrow. All-in-all I am confident
we can have another solid race."
And they did.
"I am really, really happy to
be honest," Camier said after
race two. "It was a really difficult
Finnish racer Niki Tuuli, somewhat new to the championship,
gave Sofuoglu a race right down to the wire, taking second.
