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Misano Grand Prix - Race 2

Misano double for dominant Sykes

22-06-2014
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Kawasaki’s Tom Sykes has taken a dominant double World Superbike win at Misano today and becomes the first British rider to win both races at the Italian track since Carl Fogarty back in 1999, crossing the line with a three-second margin.

The reigning champion was uncatchable in the sunshine and his third double win of the year sees him increase his lead to 39 points over Sylvain Guintoli while team-non-mate Loris Baz fended off various lunges and block passes from Aprilia’s Marco Melandri to take another second to add to his runner-up spot in race one.

Melandri looked like he had the pace to do a number on Baz with three laps to go after dealing with team-mate Guintoli, who dropped off to a lonely fourth with six laps to after changing his tyre option front and rear for the second encounter.

The Italian put four or five moves on Baz but couldn’t make any of them stick, having to block pass and then run wide and Baz just took advantage before just getting the hammer down on the final lap to pull a small gap on the ex-MotoGP rider.

Pata Honda’s Jonathan Rea had a tight scrap with Toni Elias but emerged victorious over the ex-Moto2 world champion to bag fifth place with Alex Lowes and Eugene Laverty stuck together for the entire 21 laps.

Laverty just edged his younger Voltcom Suzuki team-mate for seventh even though he managed to break his already fractured foot in race one when changing gear with a little too much vigour.

Davide Giugliano had to endure a ride-through penalty after marginally jumping the start but came back to tenth place after grabbing the holeshot and setting the fastest lap of the race on lap two.

Leon Haslam crashed on the way into the last corner on lap 14 but managed to re-mount and finish in 12th place, just behind the battle for the Evo win between David Salom and Sylvain Barrier. The returning Frenchman had been leading but was told to drop a place by the stewards for an incident.

Chaz Davies crashed out of a top-six position and re-mounted by had to retire while Christian Iddon also lobbed it on lap four, one lap before Davies parted company with his Panigale.
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