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World Supersport: Brookes Takes Podium Place at Monza
12 maggio 2008
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In fourth place, in the race and in the championship fight, Andrew Pitt (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda CBR600RR) overcame a seventh place qualifying performance to go fourth in the race. He was unable to get on terms with the three leading riders due to a lack of traction exiting some key corners. The podium places went to winner Fabien Foret, Brookes and Broc Parkes. After the fifth round of the year, Honda privateer Joan Lascorz still leads the championship, 77 points to Foret’s 71. Lascorz was outgunned at Monza, and finished a brave ninth. Parkes has 65 and Pitt and Brookes are tied on 63, in fourth and fifth places respectively. Pitt’s team-mate Jonathan Rea (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda CBR600RR) burned his clutch from the start and had to finish his race early. He is now seventh overall, on 41 points. He had qualified 5th, and was looking for another podium to add to his recent Assen success. Craig Jones (Parkalgar Honda CBR600RR) had to ride with a broken bone in his left hand after a practice crash but he toughed it out to go sixth in the race, after qualifying only 12th. He battled in Pitt’s group on the last few laps, one place behind an aggressive Robbin Harms (Hannspree Stiggy Motorsports Honda CBR600RR). Harms was a second row starter, and did well to eradicate memories of a big crash in last year’s Monza race. Harms is now 8th in the rankings, on 39 points. Gianluca Nannelli (Hannspree Althea Honda CBR600RR) was 13th in the race after experiencing unexpected problems with front end vibration, and is now 12th overall. His temporary team-mate, Gianluca Vizziello, had his gear change pedal tip knocked off by another rider, and had to pull in. Vizziello had been sixth in qualifying, at his home track. In the Manufacturers’ Championship, Honda leads Yamaha by 19 points. Pitt said: “I just couldn’t get any grip in the race. I didn’t get off the start because my clutch started to spin and someone hit me in the first turn, so that left me a lot of work to do. I thought I was going to get up there to the leaders but I just couldn’t get the traction coming out of the Parabolica. That was more a case of salvaging fourth place than gaining it.” Brookes said: “I had a great start from second place and was in the lead for the first two laps. As it has been some time since I’ve been in the lead, I got a bit anxious and lost my rhythm. Parkes came past me and pulled away a little. Foret also passed me but I was able to take advantage of his slipstream to catch Parkes up again and then pass him. I finished the race in second place. I’m satisfied, if not entirely happy, but I know I put in a good effort and rode as hard as I could. The whole weekend has been working really well for us, so I was hoping for a win. The championship has really closed up after this race and I’m now in joint fourth place, so that’s good.” Jones said: “It wasn’t so much the pain that gave me a problem in the race, but rather the lack of feel from my hand on the bars. I gave it my best effort in the circumstances and am pleased to have taken sixth, that is a decent result, all things considered.” |
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