DRAMATIC SEASON FINALE FOR SBK IN MAGNY-COURS
VERMEULEN AND LANZI SHARE WINS IN FRANCE
Chris Vermeulen (Winston Ten Kate Honda) and Lorenzo Lanzi (SC Caracchi Ducati) took a win apiece after two 23-lap races filled with great contrasts at Magny-Cours, with the lap record falling to each rider in turn. Lanzi finally reduced the best lap to a 1’40.601, as he chased Vermeulen in race two, giving the Caracchi team its best result of the year. 2005 World Champion Troy Corser (Alstare Corona Extra Suzuki), starting from the fourth row in each race, finished fifth and fourth after superb pushes to the front in the early laps.
RACE ONE The 23-lap opener was the sole preserve of Vermeulen, running clear in the early laps, with Kagayama a chasing ghost in his wake. Vermeulen twice broke the lap record, taking a new best of 1’40.985, until Lanzi had his final say. The race action behind was combative throughout, with eventual third place man James Toseland (Ducati Xerox) having to repass Karl Muggeridge (Winston Ten Kate Honda) on the final third of the last lap to earn the final podium position.
RACE TWO A dramatic start and finish to the second race saw a five-rider collision at the first corner call a stop to the contest. Muggeridge and Giovanni Bussei (Kawasaki Bertocchi) were taken to the medical centre and failed to make the restart. Muggeridge received stitches in a head wound, and Bussei was kept in for more tests. The race was won in a peculiar fashion by SC Caracchi Ducati rider Lanzi, using full factory engines again for this race. Long term leader Vermeulen retired when his rear sprocket got damaged and dislodged his drive chain on lap 19, leaving the track free for the unchallenged Lanzi. A magnificent race long battle for third, between Kagayama and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia) became a battle for second after Vermeulen’s exit, with Kagayama taking the runner-up spot.
HOT DAY OF ACTION IN BOTH RACES Andrew Pitt had a strong ride in race one, taking sixth, and in the second race, he overcome the effects of his big first corner crash to take seventh, despite having lost skin from his hands. Chris Walker had a good last day in his first PSG-1 Kawasaki season, his slip to seventh in race one being overturned by a magnificent last fight to fifth in race two, overhauling Toseland on the final circuit. With Haga third in race two (and despite a race one fall) he scored overall third in the series, Toseland went fourth and Kagayama fifth. Race non-starter Regis Laconi (Ducati Xerox) dropped to fifth overall.
OTHER RIDERS IN THE END OF SEASON MIX Max Neukirchner (Klaffi Honda) scored a pair of eighth places, despite a reduced level of traction from race one to race two. He beat Lanzi in race one, the Italian rider finishing only ninth. Norick Abe (Yamaha Motor France) took a tenth and then a ninth place, on his first visit to Magny-Cours. Vermeulen’s late exit gave Pierfrancesco Chili (Klaffi Honda) a top ten finish to add to his race one technical DNF. Ben Bostrom scored a 12th and an 11th place in his last 2005 race for the Renegade Honda squad.
PETRONAS SUFFER TOUGH DAY AT MAGNY-COURS Steve Martin (Petronas FP-1) was one of the riders involved in the first lap race two crash, as was Julien Da Costa (DFX Yamaha). Martin failed to make the start of race two, and was a retirement from race one. Andy Norman (Petronas FP-1) also failed to make the end of either race.
WORLD SUPERSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP Broc Parkes (Yamaha Motor Germany) took his first race win of the Supersport season, bringing to six the total number of riders who have scored at least one 2005 victory. Despite Sebastien Charpentier’s dominant form on the Winston Ten Kate Honda, over the first three-quarters of the season, three manufacturers have had their riders on the top step of the podium – Honda, Yamaha and Ducati.
Behind Parkes a furious battle for second, third and fourth went the way of Kevin Curtain (Yamaha Motor Germany), from Michel Fabrizio (Team Italia Megabike Honda) and his team-mate Fabien Foret. Suzuki rider Javi Fores (Alstare Corona Extra) took fifth. The final points standings have Charpentier on 210, Curtain on 187, Fujiwara third on 149 and Foret fourth on 144. Fabrizio takes fifth with 138. Gianluca Nannelli (SC Caracchi Ducati) finishes top Ducati rider in eighth, with Fores ninth.
SUPERSTOCK 1000 FIM CUP After EMS Suzuki rider Craig Coxhell’s challenge had been eliminated on the fourth lap, when a crashing machine skittled him at the exit of the last right hand corner, it became a two rider fight for the championship. It turned out that way on track as well, as Sofuoglu and Vankeymeulen danced out their internal Yamaha Motor Germany war for all 14 laps.
A last lap barging match between the team-mates gave the race win and the title to Vankeymeulen, who finished the season on 163 points, Sofuoglu on 157, with Coxhell third on 125. Coxhell’s collarbone was broken in several places in the crash, but he walked away from the nasty incident otherwise unscathed.
Chris Vermeulen (Winston Ten Kate Honda) and Lorenzo Lanzi (SC Caracchi Ducati) took a win apiece after two 23-lap races filled with great contrasts at Magny-Cours, with the lap record falling to each rider in turn. Lanzi finally reduced the best lap to a 1’40.601, as he chased Vermeulen in race two, giving the Caracchi team its best result of the year. 2005 World Champion Troy Corser (Alstare Corona Extra Suzuki), starting from the fourth row in each race, finished fifth and fourth after superb pushes to the front in the early laps.
RACE ONE The 23-lap opener was the sole preserve of Vermeulen, running clear in the early laps, with Kagayama a chasing ghost in his wake. Vermeulen twice broke the lap record, taking a new best of 1’40.985, until Lanzi had his final say. The race action behind was combative throughout, with eventual third place man James Toseland (Ducati Xerox) having to repass Karl Muggeridge (Winston Ten Kate Honda) on the final third of the last lap to earn the final podium position.
RACE TWO A dramatic start and finish to the second race saw a five-rider collision at the first corner call a stop to the contest. Muggeridge and Giovanni Bussei (Kawasaki Bertocchi) were taken to the medical centre and failed to make the restart. Muggeridge received stitches in a head wound, and Bussei was kept in for more tests. The race was won in a peculiar fashion by SC Caracchi Ducati rider Lanzi, using full factory engines again for this race. Long term leader Vermeulen retired when his rear sprocket got damaged and dislodged his drive chain on lap 19, leaving the track free for the unchallenged Lanzi. A magnificent race long battle for third, between Kagayama and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia) became a battle for second after Vermeulen’s exit, with Kagayama taking the runner-up spot.
HOT DAY OF ACTION IN BOTH RACES Andrew Pitt had a strong ride in race one, taking sixth, and in the second race, he overcome the effects of his big first corner crash to take seventh, despite having lost skin from his hands. Chris Walker had a good last day in his first PSG-1 Kawasaki season, his slip to seventh in race one being overturned by a magnificent last fight to fifth in race two, overhauling Toseland on the final circuit. With Haga third in race two (and despite a race one fall) he scored overall third in the series, Toseland went fourth and Kagayama fifth. Race non-starter Regis Laconi (Ducati Xerox) dropped to fifth overall.
OTHER RIDERS IN THE END OF SEASON MIX Max Neukirchner (Klaffi Honda) scored a pair of eighth places, despite a reduced level of traction from race one to race two. He beat Lanzi in race one, the Italian rider finishing only ninth. Norick Abe (Yamaha Motor France) took a tenth and then a ninth place, on his first visit to Magny-Cours. Vermeulen’s late exit gave Pierfrancesco Chili (Klaffi Honda) a top ten finish to add to his race one technical DNF. Ben Bostrom scored a 12th and an 11th place in his last 2005 race for the Renegade Honda squad.
PETRONAS SUFFER TOUGH DAY AT MAGNY-COURS Steve Martin (Petronas FP-1) was one of the riders involved in the first lap race two crash, as was Julien Da Costa (DFX Yamaha). Martin failed to make the start of race two, and was a retirement from race one. Andy Norman (Petronas FP-1) also failed to make the end of either race.
WORLD SUPERSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP Broc Parkes (Yamaha Motor Germany) took his first race win of the Supersport season, bringing to six the total number of riders who have scored at least one 2005 victory. Despite Sebastien Charpentier’s dominant form on the Winston Ten Kate Honda, over the first three-quarters of the season, three manufacturers have had their riders on the top step of the podium – Honda, Yamaha and Ducati.
Behind Parkes a furious battle for second, third and fourth went the way of Kevin Curtain (Yamaha Motor Germany), from Michel Fabrizio (Team Italia Megabike Honda) and his team-mate Fabien Foret. Suzuki rider Javi Fores (Alstare Corona Extra) took fifth. The final points standings have Charpentier on 210, Curtain on 187, Fujiwara third on 149 and Foret fourth on 144. Fabrizio takes fifth with 138. Gianluca Nannelli (SC Caracchi Ducati) finishes top Ducati rider in eighth, with Fores ninth.
SUPERSTOCK 1000 FIM CUP After EMS Suzuki rider Craig Coxhell’s challenge had been eliminated on the fourth lap, when a crashing machine skittled him at the exit of the last right hand corner, it became a two rider fight for the championship. It turned out that way on track as well, as Sofuoglu and Vankeymeulen danced out their internal Yamaha Motor Germany war for all 14 laps.
A last lap barging match between the team-mates gave the race win and the title to Vankeymeulen, who finished the season on 163 points, Sofuoglu on 157, with Coxhell third on 125. Coxhell’s collarbone was broken in several places in the crash, but he walked away from the nasty incident otherwise unscathed.
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