2012 Monza Superbike World Championship round

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.

  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.
DateMay 6, 2012
LocationMonza
CoursePermanent 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

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
gollark: Withdrawal from what? Nothing happened.
gollark: Please report to the re-education centre, Nukley.
gollark: Are you remembering things which never happened?
gollark: F I B O N A C C I
gollark: D O C U M E N T A T I O N

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.
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