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Biaggi and Melandri close on Checa, Haslam at risk for race - Malcolm - 20-02-2012 Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing) and Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad) moved closer to Carlos Checa (Althea Racing) in today's second session of official testing at Phillip Island. In the warmer afternoon track conditions the world champion was unable to improve on his best time of 1'31"947 set in the morning. Biaggi however improved by a fraction with a sequence of fast laps towards the end, all in the low 1.32s. Melandri also made good progress, ending up with a time of 1'32.232, a full second better than the time he set in last week's private test. Leon Haslam, who crashed in the morning, did not take part in the afternoon run. Checks carried out in hospital diagnosed a fractured tibia in his right leg and the BMW man is considering having a screw put in to race in a few day's time. In the overall timesheets, Haslam was sandwiched by two more Brits, Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike) in fourth and Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) in sixth. Superbike Day 1 - overall 1 7 Checa C. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 1'31.947 2 3 Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'32.132 3 33 Melandri M. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 1'32.232 4 65 Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'32.379 5 91 Haslam L. (GBR) BMW S1000 RR 1'32.397 6 66 Sykes T. (GBR) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'32.465 7 50 Guintoli S. (FRA) Ducati 1098R 1'32.768 8 59 Canepa N. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'32.836 9 96 Smrz J. (CZE) Ducati 1098R 1'32.848 10 17 Lascorz J. (ESP) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'33.005 11 2 Camier L. (GBR) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1'33.104 12 84 Fabrizio M. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 1'33.141 13 121 Berger M. (FRA) Ducati 1098R 1'33.246 14 34 Giugliano D. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'33.366 15 4 Aoyama H. (JPN) Honda CBR1000RR 1'33.479 16 87 Zanetti L. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'33.566 17 67 Staring B. (AUS) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'33.704 18 44 Salom D. (ESP) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'33.812 19 86 Badovini A. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 1'34.234 20 19 Davies C. (GBR) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'34.303 21 35 De Rosa R. (ITA) Honda CBR1000RR 1'34.400 22 25 Brookes J. (AUS) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1'34.667 23 18 Aitchison M. (AUS) BMW S1000 RR 1'35.223 .