Pata Honda rider Jonathan Rea finished in seventh and fifth positions in today’s two seventh-round World Superbike championship races at Misano World Circuit ‘Marco Simoncelli’ in Italy.

With temperatures hovering around 30˚C and the track in the mid-40s, the two races were won by Tom Sykes as Rea, 27, fought to harness as many championship points as possible after a testing race weekend. At the halfway point of the season, he holds fourth place in the standings.

His Pata Honda team-mate Leon Haslam endured an eventful raceday, finishing 10th in race one after an electronics glitch just three laps from the end. The 30-year-old crashed on the last corner of the 4.226km Misano circuit in race two but minimal damage to his CBR1000RR Fireblade SP allowed him to re-mount and take 12th place at the flag.

Jonathan Rea - 7th and 5th

It’s been a disappointing weekend for me because it feels like we’ve made zero progress here. It was frustrating to be unable to pinpoint and fix the problems we’ve had and, while I don’t want to sound like a broken record, I feel a bit like one with my comments in the garage. We were able to salvage a top five in race two after some brave passing in the fast parts of the circuit but the group at the front was too far away. I can only ride the bike as well as it’s working, but I want to be able to race it again. We can’t just hope that the next round will be better; we need to evaluate what’s been going wrong and try to find some different solutions. It’s been frustrating for the whole team because I know we haven’t been able to get the best out of the CBR this weeken d. I know that on the right day and in the right environment, the bike is capable of much, much more. The whole team feels like we’re under-achieving right now so we need to do our homework and fix things as quickly as possible.


Leon Haslam - 10th and 12th

I got a bad start in race one and got stuck for a couple of laps before working my way up. By then, I was about four seconds off the group in front, which included Johnny [Rea] and I felt like I was holding my own. I had a few little issues but then, with three laps to go, the ECU seemed to just cut-out. I pulled off the track, re-booted it using the kill-switch and managed to get going again to finish tenth. In race two my start was better but I had a bit of a yo-yo race, losing time in some corners and making it up again in others. I was right on the group that went up to fifth but then had another issue that led to the crash. We need to assess what that problem was and go from there. I think we’ve made some progress this weekend and I was able to do some better lap times in the races but there’s more work to do before Portimao.

Pieter Breddels - technical co-ordinator

Leon was riding quite well today and doing some decent lap times. The bike had a technical issue just before the end of race one, which was disappointing for everyone. In race two, he was in the second group and had a small crash, which he was able to recover from to finish 12th. The results are not satisfying of course, but again we made progress. Leon is closer to his team-mate and we’ll take that positive to Portimao, which is a track that he likes. We wanted to battle for the podium here again but Jonathan had too many issues and it took us too long to make a good setting for him. We have a lot of work to do and we need to aim for the Portimao podium with him because it’s one of his favourite tracks and we know how well he and the bike can go there.

Event results - Round 7- Race 1

1 Tom Sykes 33m46.932s GBR KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team
2 Loris Baz 5.012 FRA KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team
3 Marco Melandri 6.417 ITA APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team
4 Chaz Davies 7.783 GBR DUCATI Ducati Superbike Team
5 Sylvain Guintoli 16.248 FRA APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team
6 Toni Elias 17.399 SPA APRILIA Red Devils Roma
7 Jonathan Rea 21.162 GBR HONDA Pata Honda
8 Davide Giugliano 26.393 ITA DUCATI Ducati Superbike Team
9 Eugene Laverty 26.842 IRL SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki
10 Leon Haslam 40.600 GBR HONDA Pata Honda
11 David Salom 42.064 ESP KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team
12 Niccolo Canepa 46.804 ITA DUCATI Althea Racing
13 Claudio Corti 48.909 ITA MV AGUSTA MV Agusta RC-Yakhnich Motorsport
14 Ivan Goi 50.429 ITA DUCATI BARNI Racing Team
15 Sylvain Barrier 52.452 FRA BMW BMW Motorrad Italia SBK
16 Jeremy Guarnoni 1'02.476 FRA KAWASAKI MRS Kawasaki
17 Riccardo Russo 1'11.815 ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini
18 Bryan Staring 1'23.649 AUS KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team
19 Peter Sebestyen 1 Lap HUN BMW BMW Team Toth
20 Sheridan Morais DNF RSA KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team
21 Alex Lowes DNF GBR SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki
22 Aaron Yates DNF USA BIMOTA Team Hero EBR
23 Fabien Foret DNF FRA KAWASAKI MAHI Racing Team India
24 Matteo Baiocco DNF ITA DUCATI Grandi Corse by A.P. Racing
25 Alessandro Andreozzi DNF ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini
26 Geoff May DNF USA BIMOTA Team Hero EBR
27 Ayrton Badovini DNF ITA BIMOTA Team Alstare
28 Christian Iddon DNF GBR BIMOTA Team Alstare


Event results - Round 7- Race 2

1 Tom Sykes 33m55.695s GBR KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team
2 Loris Baz 3.083 FRA KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team
3 Marco Melandri 3.413 ITA APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team
4 Sylvain Guintoli 5.092 FRA APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team
5 Jonathan Rea 18.975 GBR HONDA Pata Honda
6 Toni Elias 19.365 SPA APRILIA Red Devils Roma
7 Eugene Laverty 20.177 IRL SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki
8 Alex Lowes 20.439 GBR SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki
9 Davide Giugliano 33.820 ITA DUCATI Ducati Superbike Team
10 David Salom 42.156 ESP KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team
11 Sylvain Barrier 43.581 FRA BMW BMW Motorrad Italia SBK
12 Leon Haslam 51.993 GBR HONDA Pata Honda
13 Ivan Goi 53.714 ITA DUCATI BARNI Racing Team
14 Riccardo Russo 59.316 ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini
15 Alessandro Andreozzi 1'00.914 ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini
16 Niccolo Canepa 1'01.839 ITA DUCATI Althea Racing
17 Claudio Corti 1'07.178 ITA MV AGUSTA MV Agusta RC-Yakhnich Motorsport
18 Bryan Staring 1'13.510 AUS KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team
19 Peter Sebestyen 1'31.715 HUN BMW BMW Team Toth
20 Jeremy Guarnoni DNF FRA KAWASAKI MRS Kawasaki
21 Geoff May DNF USA BIMOTA Team Hero EBR
22 Chaz Davies DNF GBR DUCATI Ducati Superbike Team
23 Sheridan Morais DNF RSA KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team
24 Matteo Baiocco DNF ITA DUCATI Grandi Corse by A.P. Racing
25 Fabien Foret DNF FRA KAWASAKI MAHI Racing Team India
26 Ayrton Badovini DNF ITA BIMOTA Team Alstare
27 Christian Iddon DNF GBR BIMOTA Team Alstare


Championship standings

1 Tom Sykes 251 pts GBR KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team
2 Sylvain Guintoli 212 pts FRA APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team
3 Loris Baz 210 pts FRA KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team
4 Jonathan Rea 199 pts GBR HONDA Pata Honda
5 Marco Melandri 179 pts ITA APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team
6 Chaz Davies 143 pts GBR DUCATI Ducati Superbike Team
7 Davide Giugliano 111 pts ITA DUCATI Ducati Superbike Team
8 Toni Elias 109 pts SPA APRILIA Red Devils Roma
9 Eugene Laverty 106 pts IRL SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki
10 Leon Haslam 99 pts GBR HONDA Pata Honda
11 Alex Lowes 88 pts GBR SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki
12 David Salom 67 pts ESP KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team
13 Niccolo Canepa 43 pts ITA DUCATI Althea Racing
14 Leon Camier 30 pts GBR BMW BMW Motorrad Italia SBK
15 Jeremy Guarnoni 19 pts FRA KAWASAKI MRS Kawasaki
16 Luca Scassa 16 pts ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini
17 Fabien Foret 14 pts FRA KAWASAKI MAHI Racing Team India
18 Claudio Corti 13 pts ITA MV AGUSTA MV Agusta RC-Yakhnich Motorsport
19 Sheridan Morais 10 pts RSA KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team
20 Alessandro Andreozzi 9 pts ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini
21 Sylvain Barrier 6 pts FRA BMW BMW Motorrad Italia SBK
22 Glen Allerton 6 pts AUS BMW BMW Motorrad Italia SBK
23 Kervin Bos 5 pts NED HONDA Winteb LiquidRubber Racing T.
24 Bryan Staring 3 pts AUS KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team
25 Riccardo Russo 2 pts ITA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini
26 Michel Fabrizio 2 pts ITA KAWASAKI IRON BRAIN Kawasaki SBK Team
27 Imre Toth 2 pts HUN BMW BMW Team Toth
28 Roamin Lanusse 1 pts FRA KAWASAKI Team Pedercini
29 Peter Sebestyen 0 pts HUN BMW BMW Team Toth
30 Geoff May 0 pts USA BIMOTA Team Hero EBR
31 Christian Iddon 0 pts GBR BIMOTA Team Alstare
32 Aaron Yates 0 pts USA BIMOTA Team Hero EBR

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