2012 Monza Superbike World Championship round

  2012 Monza Superbike World Championship round

Round details
Round 4 of 14 rounds in the 2012 Superbike World Championship. and Round 4 of 13 rounds in the 2012 Supersport World Championship.
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Date	May 6, 2012
Location	Monza
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.777 km (3.590 mi)
Superbike World Championship
Pole position Sylvain Guintoli 1:54.276 Fastest lap race 1 Fastest lap race 2 n/a Tom Sykes 1:44.707
Supersport World Championship
Pole position Sam Lowes 1:47.601 Fastest lap Sam Lowes 2:00.653

The 2012 Monza Superbike World Championship round was the fourth round of the 2012 Superbike World Championship season and of the 2012 Supersport World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of May 4–6, 2012 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza located in Monza, Italy.

Superbike

Report

At this round the championship held an awards ceremony marking their 25th anniversary, this however would be a round full of incident, the conditions were changeable throughout the weekend, and during a wet superpole riders were unable to make their wet tyres last more than 2 laps due to the tyres falling apart down the center due to the high speed nature of the Monza circuit. The race started dry but Mark Aitchison fell at the final turn on the warm up lap then John Hopkins and Marco Melandri, would also go down at the final turn. The race was stopped as the rain persisted and race 1 was canceled on safety grounds.^[1] Race 2 was run in similar conditions with the rain falling just after half distance meaning that half points were awarded. After the debacle Team Effenbert Liberty Racing hit out at WSBK organizers for favoring a few riders in the cancellation of race 1, putting doubt into their further participation in the championship.^[2] Pirelli the lone tyre provider hit back at complaints from the riders who Pirelli say ignored the advice to use the intermediate tyres during the wet/dry racing.^[3] Liberty racing later released a statement backtracking on was said in the wake of Monza and confirming that the team would be competing at the next round but hinted that the title sponsor Effenbert may scale back their branding in way of protest.^[4]

Race 2 classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	66	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki ZX-10R	8	14:08.800	2	12.5
2	91	Leon Haslam	BMW S1000RR	8	+9.709	13	10
3	58	Eugene Laverty	Aprilia RSV4 Factory	8	+10.119	9	8
4	33	Marco Melandri	BMW S1000RR	8	+10.294	3	6.5
5	3	Max Biaggi	Aprilia RSV4 Factory	8	+10.527	6	5.5
6	65	Jonathan Rea	Honda CBR1000RR	8	+10.638	5	5
7	7	Carlos Checa	Ducati 1098R	8	+10.899	4	4.5
8	34	Davide Giugliano	Ducati 1098R	8	+12.195	8	4
9	96	Jakub Smrž	Ducati 1098R	8	+13.199	7	3.5
10	86	Ayrton Badovini	BMW S1000RR	8	+19.372	12	3
11	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda CBR1000RR	8	+24.551	18	2.5
12	19	Chaz Davies	Aprilia RSV4 Factory	8	+24.655	14	2
13	121	Maxime Berger	Ducati 1098R	8	+24.662	17	1.5
14	87	Lorenzo Zanetti	Ducati 1098R	8	+24.668	15	1
15	2	Leon Camier	Suzuki GSX-R1000	8	+24.810	11	0.5
16	36	Leandro Mercado	Kawasaki ZX-10R	8	+24.935	19
17	59	Niccolò Canepa	Ducati 1098R	8	+25.278	16
DNS	84	Michel Fabrizio	BMW S1000RR			10
DNS	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Ducati 1098R			1
DNS	199	Sergio Gadea	Kawasaki ZX-10R			21
DNS	18	Mark Aitchison	BMW S1000RR			20
DNS	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki GSX-R1000
DNS	44	David Salom	Kawasaki ZX-10R
OFFICIAL SUPERBIKE RACE 2 REPORT

Supersport

Race classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	16	Jules Cluzel	Honda CBR600RR	16	33:08.897	10	25
2	11	Sam Lowes	Honda CBR600RR	16	+0.312	1	20
3	54	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Kawasaki ZX-6R	16	+17.369	2	16
4	10	Imre Tóth	Honda CBR600RR	16	+21.528	11	13
5	12	Stefano Cruciani	Kawasaki ZX-6R	16	+29.469	5	11
6	25	Alex Baldolini	Triumph Daytona 675	16	+32.214	19	10
7	55	Massimo Roccoli	Yamaha YZF-R6	16	+43.577	9	9
8	8	Andrea Antonelli	Honda CBR600RR	16	+43.949	16	8
9	31	Vittorio Iannuzzo	Triumph Daytona 675	16	+47.455	21	7
10	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Honda CBR600RR	16	+47.826	22	6
11	3	Jed Metcher	Yamaha YZF-R6	16	+50.880	27	5
12	99	Fabien Foret	Kawasaki ZX-6R	16	+1:00.681	4	4
13	87	Luca Marconi	Yamaha YZF-R6	16	+1:01.139	13	3
14	74	Kieran Clarke	Honda CBR600RR	16	+1:05.160	32	2
15	40	Martin Jessopp	Honda CBR600RR	16	+1:05.208	25	1
16	22	Roberto Tamburini	Honda CBR600RR	16	+1:10.453	6
17	6	Mirko Giansanti	Kawasaki ZX-6R	16	+1:16.756	18
18	64	Joshua Day	Kawasaki ZX-6R	16	+1:21.270	26
19	88	Giovanni Altomonte	Honda CBR600RR	16	+1:28.024	33
20	17	Roberto Anastasia	Honda CBR600RR	16	+1:28.403	30
21	61	Fabio Menghi	Yamaha YZF-R6	16	+1:48.237	14
22	13	Dino Lombardi	Yamaha YZF-R6	16	+1:59.036	24
23	53	Valentin Debise	Honda CBR600RR	16	+2:00.983	29
24	27	Thomas Caiani	Honda CBR600RR	15	+1 lap	35
25	33	Yves Polzer	Yamaha YZF-R6	15	+1 lap	31
26	24	Eduard Blokhin	Yamaha YZF-R6	15	+1 lap	34
Ret	98	Romain Lanusse	Kawasaki ZX-6R	15	Retirement	17
Ret	23	Broc Parkes	Honda CBR600RR	13	Retirement	7
Ret	81	Cristiano Erbacci	Yamaha YZF-R6	8	Accident	23
Ret	157	Ilario Dionisi	Honda CBR600RR	6	Retirement	20
Ret	65	Vladimir Leonov	Yamaha YZF-R6	5	Accident	15
Ret	20	Mathew Scholtz	Honda CBR600RR	5	Accident	8
Ret	38	Balázs Németh	Honda CBR600RR	5	Accident	28
Ret	32	Sheridan Morais	Kawasaki ZX-6R	3	Accident	3
Ret	34	Ronan Quarmby	Honda CBR600RR	1	Accident	12
DNQ	73	Oleg Pozdneev	Yamaha YZF-R6
OFFICIAL SUPERSPORT RACE REPORT

References

1. ↑ "Rain halts first WSBK race". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 6 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012. 
2. ↑ "Furious Effenbert Liberty slams WSBK". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 7 May 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012. 
3. ↑ "Pirelli teams completely ignored advice". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 7 May 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012. 
4. ↑ "Liberty clarifies position". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012. 

External links

• The official website of the Superbike World Championship