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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
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
Superstock STK1000 race classification Pos No. Rider Bike Laps Time Grid Points 1 32 Lorenzo Savadori Ducati 1199 Panigale 11 21:21.255 2 25 2 71 Christoffer Bergman Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +1.651 5 20 3 47 Eddi La Marra Ducati 1199 Panigale 11 +1.884 4 16 4 15 Fabio Massei Honda CBR1000RR 11 +3.071 10 13 5 5 Marco Bussolotti Ducati 1098R 11 +11.194 8 11 6 40 Alen Győrfi Honda CBR1000RR 11 +21.378 14 10 7 21 Markus Reiterberger BMW S1000RR 11 +26.047 6 9 8 14 Lorenzo Baroni BMW S1000RR 11 +30.259 3 8 9 11 Jérémy Guarnoni Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +31.224 9 7 10 44 Federico Dittadi Aprilia RSV4 APRC 11 +51.230 12 6 11 22 Matteo Gabrielli Aprilia RSV4 APRC 11 +57.305 13 5 12 55 Tomáš Svitok Ducati 1098R 11 +1:01.806 16 4 13 93 Mathieu Lussiana Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +1:01.972 7 3 14 39 Randy Pagaud Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +1:14.045 19 2 15 30 Bogdan Vrăjitoru Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +1:22.095 25 1 16 36 Philippe Thiriet Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 +2.01.823 20 17 88 Massimo Parziani Aprilia RSV4 APRC 10 +1 lap 18 18 61 Alexey Ivanov Ducati 1199 Panigale 10 +1 lap 24 19 155 Tiago Dias Kawasaki ZX-10R 10 +1 lap 22 20 17 Danilo Lewis da Silva Kawasaki ZX-10R 10 +1 lap 23 Ret 41 Tommaso Gabrielli Aprilia RSV4 APRC 10 Accident 21 Ret 20 Sylvain Barrier BMW S1000RR 8 Accident 1 Ret 37 Andrzej Chmielewski Ducati 1098R 7 Accident 17 Ret 65 Loris Baz Kawasaki ZX-10R 4 Accident 11 Ret 69 Ondřej Ježek Ducati 1098R 1 Retirement 15 DNS 67 Bryan Staring Kawasaki ZX-10R Did not start WD 24 Kev Coghlan Ducati 1199 Panigale Withdrew OFFICIAL SUPERSTOCK 1000 RACE REPORT
References
External links The official website of the Superbike World Championship