Haga Does Double in Germany
Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB) scored a fantastic double win at the Nurburgring on World Superbike's return to the German track for the first time in ten years.

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Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB) scored a fantastic double win at the Nurburgring on World Superbike's return to the German track for the first time in ten years. Just two weeks after breaking his collarbone in the USA, Haga fought off Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) to win race 1, and then got the better of his team-mate Troy Corser in a rain-shortened second encounter to take the double. Max Neukirchner (Alstare Suzuki) took two thirds in front of his home crowd. Despite unfavourable weather conditions, the German Round of the HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship, reached a satisfactory overall attendance of 41,000 over the 3 days. Race 1: Haga was in terrific form on the Yamaha and with a perfect race strategy the Japanese rider got the best of a determined Troy Bayliss (Ducati), who tested him until a couple of laps from the flag before making a mistake. Third place went to local hero Neukirchner, who held off Corser. Carlos Checa (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) got a bad start but made a good recovery to pass Ruben Xaus (Sterilgarda Go Eleven Ducati) for fifth place on the final lap. Seventh went to Michel Fabrizio (Ducati Xerox), who faded in the final stages after running with the leading group for much of the race. Behind the Italian were Fonsi Nieto (Suzuki Alstare) and Makoto Tamada (PSG-1 Corse) on the first Kawasaki to finish. Max Biaggi (Sterilgarda Go Eleven Ducati) concluded in a disappointing 14th place. Noriyuki Haga: "Ten days ago I was a disaster and I am very happy for this win, just fourteen days after breaking my collarbone. Everyone has helped me and I felt very comfortable in the riding. I want to say ‘thank you' to the Clinica Mobile and my team and all the fans. Congratulations for Troy and Max and I hope Yukio comes back very soon!" Troy Bayliss: "I saw after the warm-up that Nori was looking really consistent, and Max was going to do a good job and maybe Carlos, but Nori proved to be the strongest in the race. At about two-thirds distance I was doing everything I could to stay with Nori but thought that second place was good and I would increase my lead. Nori won fair and square, congratulations to him." Max Neukirchner: "I'm happy with third place, it was a really hard race for me to catch Troy, and Noriyuki was a little bit too fast for me. I lost a bit in the first split, my tyres and my chassis were really good, but I think we need a bit more handling in the second race." Race 2 : Haga took his second win of the day in race 2, and his first double of the year. The race was stopped with five laps remaining while Corser was in the lead but the previous lap's classification stands and so the win went to Haga, who completed a triumphant day for Yamaha, which was really competitive on the German track. Third place again went to Neukirchner, ahead of Bayliss, who actually managed to increase his points lead in the table. Checa scored another fifth place, after holding off the three Ducatis of Michel Fabrizio, Max Biaggi and Ruben Xaus. Both Kawasakis were in the points, Regis Laconi in 10th and Makoto Tamada in 13th. Noriyuki Haga: "During the race my collarbone gave me no problem, it was just muscle pain. I was actually a bit disappointed about the bike's setting because I changed something from the first race that gave a little bit less traction, but we had a big battle with Troy and it was very exciting. I forgot to say after the first race a big thank you to Dr Ting, who made a great operation on my collarbone. Thanks to everyone once again!" Troy Corser: "It was completely dry at the top part of the circuit but raining down the bottom for the last two laps before I actually put my hand up and it was getting wetter and wetter all the time. Although I wanted to win the race I just wanted to stay on the bike as well. A big thanks to the boys in the team and Nori as well because I actually copied a bit of his engine mapping and it worked fantastic for me. Hopefully we can get some more results like these in the rest of the season." Max Neukirchner: "It was not possible to win here today, Troy Corser and Noriyuki Haga were a little bit faster but I'm happy with two third places. We changed something from the first to the second race but it was a little bit worse, but I'm satisfied with two good results at my home race." World Superbike – Nurburgring Race One Result Pos – Rider – Team - Time 1 - Noriyuki Haga - Yamaha Motor Italia WSB - 39'19.427 2 - Troy Bayliss - Ducati Xerox Team - 39'21.452 3 - Max Neukirchner - Team Alstare Suzuki - 39'22.219 4 - Troy Corser - Yamaha Motor Italia WSB - 39'24.885 5 - Carlos Checa - Hannspree Ten Kate Honda - 39'29.652 6 - Ruben Xaus - Sterilgarda Go Eleven - 39'29.889 7 - Michel Fabrizio - Ducati Xerox Team - 39'36.445 8 - Fonsi Nieto - Team Suzuki Alstare - 39'39.947 9 - Makoto Tamada - Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse - 39'40.589 10 - Karl Muggeridge - D.F. Racing - 39'42.077 11 - Jakub Smrz - Guandalini Racing by Grifo's - 39'42.272 12 - Ryuichi Kiyonari - Hannspree Ten Kate Honda - 39'44.982 13 - Max Biaggi - Sterilgarda Go Eleven - 39'45.306 14 - Régis Laconi - Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse - 39'45.715 15 - Sébastien Gimbert - Yamaha France Ipone GMT 94 - 39'52.251 16 - Roberto Rolfo - Hannspree Honda Althea - 40'01.584 17 - Ayrton Badovini - Team Pedercini - 40'01.913 18 - Shinichi Nakatomi - YZF Yamaha - 40'11.659 19 - Russell Holland - D.F. Racing - Bertocchi - 40'11.814 20 - Vittorio Iannuzzo - Team Pedercini - 40'19.526 Not Classified RT - Loic Napoleone - Grillini PBR Team - 32'55.679 RT - Lorenzo Lanzi - R.G. Team - 37'43.591 RT - Jason Pridmore - Alto Evolution Honda Superbike - 24'20.336 RT - Kenan Sofuoglu - Hannspree Ten Kate Honda Jr. - 12'50.317 RT - David Checa - Yamaha France Ipone GMT 94 - 10'42.779 RT - Shuhei Aoyama - Alto Evolution Honda Superbike - 7'38.609 RT - Gregorio Lavilla - Ventaxia VK Honda World Superbike – Nurburgring Race Two Result Pos – Rider – Team - Time 1 - Noriyuki Haga - Yamaha Motor Italia WSB - 27'26.594 2 - Troy Corser - Yamaha Motor Italia WSB - 27'26.744 3 - Max Neukirchner - Team Alstare Suzuki - 27'31.910 4 - Troy Bayliss - Ducati Xerox Team - 27'34.245 5 - Carlos Checa - Hannspree Ten Kate Honda - 27'34.545 6 - Michel Fabrizio - Ducati Xerox Team - 27'35.621 7 - Max Biaggi - Sterilgarda Go Eleven - 27'36.014 8 - Ruben Xaus - Sterilgarda Go Eleven - 27'36.510 9 - Fonsi Nieto - Team Suzuki Alstare - 27'39.456 10 - Régis Laconi - Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse - 27'40.153 11 - Ryuichi Kiyonari - Hannspree Ten Kate Honda - 27'40.554 12 - Karl Muggeridge - D.F. Racing - 27'42.766 13 - Makoto Tamada - Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse - 27'44.540 14 - Gregorio Lavilla - Ventaxia VK Honda - 27'49.409 15 - David Checa - Yamaha France Ipone GMT 94 - 27'50.352 16 - Sébastien Gimbert - Yamaha France Ipone GMT 94 - 27'50.721 17 - Roberto Rolfo - Hannspree Honda Althea - 27'51.015 18 - Shinichi Nakatomi - YZF Yamaha - 27'51.950 19 - Russell Holland - D.F. Racing - Bertocchi - 27'52.323 20 - Lorenzo Lanzi - R.G. Team - 27'55.440 21 - Kenan Sofuoglu - Hannspree Ten Kate Honda Jr. - 27'59.701 22 - Loic Napoleone - Grillini PBR Team - 28'20.849 23 - Jason Pridmore - Alto Evolution Honda Superbike - 28'31.471 24 - Shuhei Aoyama - Alto Evolution Honda Superbike - 28'48.462 Not Classified RT - Jakub Smrz - Guandalini Racing by Grifo's - 11'58.912 RT - Ayrton Badovini - Team Pedercini - 10'07.775 RT - Vittorio Iannuzzo - Team Pedercini - 10'08.032 Championship Points after race two 1 - T. Bayliss - 227 2 - C. Checa - 188 3 - M. Neukirchner - 176 4 - N. Haga - 172 5 - T. Corser - 154 6 - F. Nieto - 141 7 - R. Xaus - 110 8 - M. Fabrizio - 106 9 - M. Biaggi - 97 10 - R. Kiyonari - 89 11 - Y. Kagayama - 73 12 - G. Lavilla - 65 13 - L. Lanzi - 60 14 - K. Muggeridge - 59 15 - J. Smrz - 56 16 - M. Tamada - 41 17 - R. Laconi - 36 18 - K. Sofuoglu - 32 19 - R. Rolfo - 20 20 - S. Nakatomi - 16
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