VOL. 53 ISSUE 39 OCTOBER 4, 2016 P53
It was the safe option, for the
start conditions.
Davies, like only a few others,
gambled on a full intermediate
setup, and a few others went for
a mix of wets and inters.
At the start Davies was well
down, and went further down as
the leaders made an escape on
their wets. As the track dried,
Davies came into his own.
Up front fans witnessed the
remarkable sight of Leon Camier
(MV Agusta Reparto Corse)
catch and pass the top two Ka-
wasaki machines, and he looked
like a winner for a time—had the
track not got too dry for his full
wet setup. He could not come
in for new tires, and it takes too
long to change on the MV, so he
stayed out. Instead of a win he
got seventh. Lorenzo Savadori
also led for a while, on his Ioda-
Racing Aprilia.
With Davies eventually hitting
the front on lap 16, and clearing
off to win by a slowing-up nine
seconds and more, it was a win
for his smart thinking as much
for his skill. He had worked out
from early on that inters were the
way to go.
Behind, Michael van der Mark
(Honda World Superbike) had
pushed his way up to second
after a tire change of his own,
but he nearly got caught on
the line by the advancing Tom
Sykes, who had pitted for slicks
and made the best of them to
set the fastest lap of the race on
the 21st and very last run, with a
1:40.491.
Sunday's races were
a straight lights-to-flag
affair, unlike race one
on Saturday.
