Motorland Aragon - Statistics

WorldSBK.com takes a quick look at the stats, the facts and the figures from the seventh round of the FIM Superbike World Championship, the Spanish Round at Motorland Aragon.

? Maiden pole position for Marco Melandri, the 56th rider in history to start from the top spot. In his short Superbike career Marco has never started lower than ninth and he is at his third straight front row start. In race two he recorded his maiden fastest race lap;

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? best grid spot for Leon Camier, third, for the first time on the front row;

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? Marco Melandri and Max Biaggi were first and second (and swapped places in the second race): the last time that two Italian riders finished first and second (Fabrizio Pirovano and Piergiorgio Bontempi) was at the 1993 Estoril round and since the 1989 Donington weekend that two different Italians won both races: at the time Fabrizio Pirovano and Giancarlo Falappa;

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? after eight second places, Max Biaggi was able to score his first season win, the fifteenth in his career and the twentieth for Aprilia;

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? podium number 30 for Carlos Checa in race two: with his crash in race one Carlos saw a sequence of four wins and sixteen races in the points come to an end. It's the first crash for him since last year's second Nurburgring race;

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? for Jakub Smrz this was a fourth crash in a row: at Misano and Aragon he has only run seventeen laps out of 78;

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? hard times also for Troy Corser, with a third retirement in the last four races, as well as a missed start in Misano race two;

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? in race two Joan Lascorz equalled his best career result: fifth, obtained for the first time at Donington and for the first time he qualified inside the top-10 in seventh;

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? 300th start for Noriyuki Haga in race two and 100th for Leon Haslam;

? in Supersport Broc Parkes scored his twelfth pole - after a gap of three years - reaching Paolo Casoli, Fabien Foret and Kenan Sofuoglu in the all-time third spot. At the top of the standings is S�bastien Charpentier with 22;

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? Chaz Davies scored Yamaha's 50th win, Honda leads the way with 83;

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? total domination in Superstock 600 by Jed Metcher, who scored pole, win, fastest lap and led the whole race: a similar feat hasn't been recorded since the 2008 Donington race (Marco Bussolotti).

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