Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda CBR600RR) repeated his qualifying position of fourth in today’s race at Monza, making him the first Honda rider home.
He was only 0.064 seconds from a podium finish in a race he looked capable of winning at one stage, but a first chicane contact with another rider on the final lap pushed him back and he could not make up enough ground to grab a top three finish in the very last corner.
A delayed start to the 16-lap World Supersport race was the result of a restart for the first Superbike race of the day, and this contributed to a nervous first few laps for most riders.
Andrew Pitt (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda CBR600RR) was seventh in qualifying but improved to fifth in the race itself, despite suffering from a lack of rear traction. Pitt’s team-mate Kenan Sofuoglu (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda CBR600RR) was with the leaders in the early lap rankings, but slipped back to finish ninth, three places behind his qualifying place.
Miguel Praia (Parkalgar Honda CBR600RR) went from 15th on the grid to 12th in the race, the fourth Honda rider home, and the only other Honda points scorer was Gianluca Vizziello (Stiggy Racing Honda CBR600RR), 14th and two places better than qualifying.
Anthony West (Stiggy Racing Honda CBR600RR) was mystified to qualify 20th yesterday and today he lasted only two laps, crashing on the third when simply pushing too hard.
West is now fifth in the championship, one below Pitt and one above today’s second place rider Joan Lascorz. Cal Crutchlow won the race, from Lascorz and Fabien Foret.
Mark Aitchison (Althea Honda CBR600RR) had high hopes at Monza after a positive recent test at the classic 5.973km circuit. Despite starting inside the top five, and running strongly for a time, he fell at the Parabolica and had to retire. His team-mate Matthieu Lagrive (Althea Honda CBR600RR) was 11th in qualifying but after crashing and restarting, he was only one place from a point, 16th.
The RES Software Veidec Honda riders experienced mixed fortunes over the weekend. Robbin Harms did not race due to injuries sustained in practice while team mates Jesco Gunther and Arie Vos overcame persistent front end problems in qualifying to finish the race in 18th and 20th places respectively.
Crutchlow leads the series going into Kyalami next weekend, 99 points to Laverty’s 81. Sofuoglu is on 72 points, Pitt 54 and West an unchanged 52.
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