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World Superbike 2004 -
Round 3 - Misano - Superbike Race 1 April 18th, 2004 |
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World Superbike 2004 -
Round 3 - Misano - Superbike Race 1 April 18th, 2004 |
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| Problems for Steve Martin
before the race even got underway this time around with his
machine refusing to fire and keep running. All the riders
went out on their warm up lap but Steve was left wondering
what he had done in a previous life to deserve this. Two
possible wins robbed from him due to engine failures and
this time it fails before he even gets to start. But
thankfully a god was smiling and his machine finally burst
in to life and allowed the South Australian to take his
position at the front of the grid at a damp Misano circuit. At the end of the first lap though it was Troy Corser who held the advantage from Pierfrancesco Chili, Chris Walker, Mauro Sanchini and Steve Martin. But Corser pulling away hand over fist out in front and had built a two-second lead after only two laps. The order remained fairly much that way for the first half of the race save for the fact that Sanchini moved past Chili for second place and Laconi had started a march forward by going past Martin and Walker and started to close on Chili and Sanchini. Laconi then started to chase down Corser, narrowing his lead from 3.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds in only a couple of laps. Vermeulen was running seventh after pushing Steve Martin down to eighth at half race distance. McCoy crashed out. Laconi hit the front a few laps later while Sanchini crashed out of third place on the Kawasaki ZX-10R. Then with a few laps to run the rain started to fall and the red flag came out to declare the race result. Hard to have an exciting race under the damp conditions that were present even before the race got underway. The podium presentation was then carried out in pouring rain.
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World Superbike 2004 - Round 3 - Misano
Sunday - World SBK Race 1 - World Supersport Race - World SBK Race 2 - Team Reports
Saturday - World Supersport FP2 - World SBK QP2 - World Supersport QP2 - WSBK Superpole / Grid
Friday - World Supersport FP1 - World SBK FP1 - World Supersport QP1 - World SBK QP1 - Friday Team Reports
Previews - HRC - Suzuki - Foggy Petronas - Ducati - Steve Martin - FG Sport
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