Tom Sykes achieved in Imola the perfect weekend, with pole, double win and double fastest lap, a feat recorded only 21 times in Superbike history, the last one in Miller, 2011, by Checa. Sykes set the following records in the last round:
Seventeenth career pole, the same of Doug Polen (4th all-time).
Sixth consecutive pole, second all-time sequence, the same recorded by Polen from Zeltweg to Hockenheim, 1991.
He became the 24th rider in history with at least ten career wins, reaching, among the current riders, Jonathan Rea. In seven of these wins he led from lights to flag.
Personal season best of race wins, five: the same obtained in his two previous seasons.
100th race in the points out of 120 started.
He reached and passed the milestone of ten fastest race laps, as he now counts eleven, the same of Michel Fabrizio.
For the first time he is at the top of the Riders Standings.
Qualifying and Race
Best career grid spot for Davide Giugliano, third: up to now the Italian rider started from the front row three times from fourth during the last season, when the grid was composed by four riders. In race one Davide equalled his best career result, a second scored in Assen last year. Giugliano didn't climb on the podium since 2012 Misano Race 1.
Jonathan Rea was able to start from the front row in consecutive races: it didn't happen since Imola, Magny-Cours and Portimao in 2011, a string of three.
Eugene Laverty after ten straight races missed a front-row grid spot, qualifying fifth.
Both the works Aprilia riders obtained in Imola their twentieth career podium: Laverty in race one and Guintoli in race two. Sylvain scored half of his podiums in the 2013 season.
The mechanical failure which sidelined Sylvain Guintoli put an end to a string of nineteen races in the points for the French.
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