[Ducati] British Super Bikes Round 2 - Oulton Park

[Phil Murphy]

Don't read this if you are able to see the races and don't want to know the
results.



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Race 1

During the warm up lap rain was hitting the back half of the track some
riders waved their hands on the starting grid but not enough so the race
started. First lap, first corner, slicks - 1/2 dozen riders down and
complete restart. This time around the whole grid were on full wets.
Sykes (suzi) got an early lead but was pressured by Crutchlow most of the
way until he made a mistake, ran off and rejoined in 5th. Byrne had been
charging through the pack with team mate Camier  and Haslam following, these
3 passed Sykes and looked fairly settled until Haslam found 'something',
overtook Camier then made up a large deficit to Byrne. The last couple or so
of laps were close racing with Haslam taking the lead but Byrne eventually
winning out.

1st	Byrne		Airwaves Ducati
2nd	Haslam	HM Plant Honda
3rd	Camier	Airwaves Ducati

Race2

Started similar to the first leg - Sykes getting a hole shot followed by the
HM Plant guys Crutchlow and Haslam. Byrne was going well until he missed a
gear into the chicane and dropped back to around 13th with 3rd race distance
gone. Haslam was nipping at Sykes for a few laps until a 'racing incident'
occurred and he knocked Sykes off. Meanwhile Byrne was charging through the
pack and was gifted 2 places with Haslam dropping to 5th or so. Byrne took
the lead from Crutchlow and Ellison. Unfortunately around lap 13/14 some
riders started to go down in 1 spot so the race was abandoned and declared a
result.

1st	Byrne		Airwaves Ducati
2nd	Ellison	Hydrex-Bike Animal Honda
3rd	Camier	Airwaves Ducati


Good exciting racing, see a more professional rundown at
http://www.britishsuperbike.com/index.asp

By the by, I noticed quite a lot of the bikes on the grid - Honda, Suzuki
were sporting Brembo brakes just like in MotoGP. So if you're Italophile
then at least you can cheer on parts of the machinery