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21-05-2007, 13:43
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Honda one two at Snetterton.
HM Plant Honda had a successful first outing at Snetterton with Ryuichi Kiyonari taking the race win from his young team-mate Jonathan Rea who took a battling second place.
The final step of the podium went to Leon Haslam on the Airwaves Ducati who dropped off the back of the Honda pair as the race developed.
Ride of the day had to go to Leon Camier on the Bike Animal Honda, he started from the very back row of the grid in twenty ninth place due to missing qualifying because of a gearbox problem. By the end of lap one he was seventeenth and by lap five he was into the top ten, when the race had run full distance he was in fifth place.
When the lights went out it was Rea who got the hole shot and he was followed into Riches by Haslam and Kiyonari with Shane Byrne on the Stobart Honda chasing hard. The pole sitter Byrne had hoped for a podium finish but his race ended on lap four when his bike developed a technical problem.
Dean Thomas on the Samsung Suzuki ran on at Riches and ended up in the potato field at the end of the straight on lap seven – that was the end of his race.
The front runners of Rea, Kiyo and Haslam had settled into a rhythm but it was Gregorio Lavilla on the Airwaves Ducati battling with Tom Sykes on the remaining Stobart Honda that was catching everyone's attention. Sykes was not letting Lavilla past him and they were leaning on one another through Russells chicane and onto the main straight. Lavilla got the better of the young rider and took fourth place.
Back at the front Kiyo had passed his team-mate Rea for the lead and the two Hondas started to pull away from Haslam who admitted after the race that he was having problems with corner entry due to changes they made to his bike's set up.
Lap sixteen saw Lavilla take to the grass and drop himself down the order to sixth place behind the hard charging Camier.
Rea was hoping for a race win but was happy to assist in closing up the points gap to Lavilla in the championship standings.
Mart Nutt on the T&G/Nutttravel.com Yamaha won the privateer's Cup and was lucky not to get tangled up with Tristan Palmer who had passed him on the last lap and then promptly high sided at the final turn sustaining an ankle injury.
BSB race results (1) – Snetterton.
1 Ryuichi Kiyonari JPN HM Plant Honda Racing 24 24:00.410 secs
2 Jonathan Rea GBR HM Plant Honda Racing +0.277 secs
3 Leon Haslam GBR Airwaves Ducati +8.209 secs
4 Tom Sykes GBR Stobart Vent-Axia Motorsport +12.981 secs
5 Leon Camier GBR Bike Animal Honda +14.185 secs
6 Gregorio Lavilla ESP Airwaves Ducati +14.379 secs
7 Tommy Hill GBR Virgin Mobile Optoma Loans Yamaha +18.471 secs
8 Cal Crutchlow GBR Rizla Suzuki +21.387 secs
9 Chris Walker GBR Rizla Suzuki +28.255 secs
10 Tommy Bridewell GBR Team NB +28.552 secs
11 Michael Rutter GBR Isillon MSS Discovery Kawasaki +30.463 secs
12 Simon Andrews GBR Jentin Racing/Lloyds British +37.945 secs
13 Karl Harris GBR Hydrex Honda +40.068 secs
14 Scott Smart GBR Hawk Kawasaki +41.686 secs
15 Steve Plater GBR AIM Racing +48.373 secs
16 Aaron Zanotti GBR SMT Yamaha/Zanotti Racing +49.044 secs
17 Peter Hickman GBR Hawk Kawasaki +49.346 secs
18 Ollie Bridewell GBR Team NB +50.284 secs
19 Hudson Kennaugh GBR Virgin Mobile Optoma Loans Yamaha +54.077 secs
20 Marty Nutt C GBR NuttTravel.com/T+G +1min 05.421 secs
21 James Buckingham C GBR Quay Garage +1min 05.793 secs
22 Tom Tunstall C GBR Hardinge - Ice Valley Motorsport 1 lap
23 Malcolm Ashley C GBR MAR 1 lap
Not classified:
Tristan Palmer GBR THR Racing 21 laps
Dean Thomas AUS Samsung Superbike Team 7 laps
Chris Martin GBR Red Viper Racing 7 laps
Sean Emmett GBR PR Branson Honda Racing 5 laps
Shane Byrne GBR Stobart Vent-Axia Motorsport 4 laps
Paul Barron IRL PBM Racing Ireland 0 laps
Neil Faulkner GBR Team Emco - NSF Racing 0 laps
Kiyonari does the double at Snetterton.
Ryuichi Kiyonari took a stunning double win at Snetterton to steal the championship lead from Gregorio Lavilla.
The HM Plant Honda rider was joined on the podium once again by his team-mate Jonathan Rea in second place.
Shane Byrne on the Stobart Honda managed to complete this race with out any technical problems and the came home in third place. In race one a stone damaged a sensor on Byrne's bike which made the machine think the traction control was on and wouldn't allow it to rev.
The action started on the grid with Cal Crutchlow having a problem with his Rizla Suzuki. He had to retire to his garage for his spare machine and start from the back row of the grid.
Rea was the first man into turn one while Karl Harris was the first person to run on into the crop field. He did rejoin but only managed to fight his way up to fifteenth on his Hydrex Honda.
Rea was pursued by Leon Haslam on the Airwaves Ducati, Byrne was in third and Kiyo was fourth. Leon Camier who started from the back of the grid got up to fifteenth on the first lap while Crutchlow managed to get to nineteenth.
Lavilla didn't get a great start and was running in sixth when his Ducati developed a problem which saw him retire on lap five. On the following lap Kiyo who had slipped into third, put a move on Haslam to take second place at the Esses. He was 0.685secs off the back of Rea so he dug in and started the process of catching the leader.
Camier was still making progress and by lap eight was in seventh place, Crutchlow had also mugged a few more riders to claim fifteenth. The yellow Bike Animal Honda finally finished in sixth place while Crutchlow who got as far up as eleventh, failed to finish due to his bike developing a technical problem.
Meanwhile back at the sharp end Byrne was on the move taking Haslam on lap thirteen. Two laps later Michael Rutter crashed his Isilon MSS Discovery Kawasaki in spectacular style at Russell chicane. The machine, which was on the edge of the track, burst into flames and the safety car was deployed.
The Safety car did bunch up the riders but the top three remained the same. Hudson Kennaugh who is replacing the injured James Haydon on the Virgin Media Optoma Loans Yamaha had a good race finishing in the points in twelfth place.
Marty Nutt did the double in the privateer's Cup on his return from his nasty smash at Silverstone where he sustained broken ribs.
BSB race results (2) – Snetterton.
1 Ryuichi Kiyonari JPN HM Plant Honda Racing 24 26:56.071 secs
2 Jonathan Rea GBR HM Plant Honda Racing +0.625 secs
3 Shane Byrne GBR Stobart Vent-Axia Motorsport +0.920 secs
4 Tom Sykes GBR Stobart Vent-Axia Motorsport +4.420 secs
5 Leon Haslam GBR Airwaves Ducati +4.312 secs
6 Leon Camier GBR Bike Animal Honda +5.650 secs
7 Tommy Hill GBR Virgin Mobile Optoma Loans Yamaha +6.076 secs
8 Scott Smart GBR Hawk Kawasaki +10.530 secs
9 Chris Walker GBR Rizla Suzuki +10.720 secs
10 Aaron Zanotti GBR SMT Yamaha/Zanotti Racing +13.874 secs
11 Hudson Kennaugh GBR Virgin Mobile Optoma Loans Yamaha +14.226 secs
12 Dean Thomas GBR Samsung Superbike Team +14.250 secs
13 Chris Martin C GBR Red Viper Racing +16.623 secs
14 Karl Harris GBR Hydrex Honda +19.915 secs
15 Marty Nutt C GBR NuttTravel.com/T+G +33.798 secs
16 Hudson Kennaugh GBR Virgin Mobile Optoma Loans Yamaha +39.118 secs
17 James Buckingham GBR Quay Garage Honda +41.847 secs
18 Paul Barron C IRL PBM Racing Ireland +44.595 secs
19 Malcolm Ashley C GBR MAR +47.529 secs
20 Neil Faulkner GBR Team Emco - NSF Racing +53.642 secs
21 Tom Tunstall GBR Hardinge - Ice Valley Motorsport 2 laps
Not classified:
Peter Hickman GBR Hawk Kawasaki 19 laps
Cal Crutchlow GBR Rizla Suzuki 15 laps
Michael Rutter GBR Isillon MSS Discovery Kawasaki 14 laps
Tommy Bridewell GBR Team NB 10 laps
Sean Emmett GBR PR Branson Honda Racing 9 laps
Steve Plater GBR AIM Racing 8 laps
Gregorio Lavilla ESP Airwaves Ducati 5 laps
Tristan Palmer GBR THR Racing 2 laps
Simon Andrews GBR Jentin Racing/Lloyds British 0 laps
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Honda one two at Snetterton.
HM Plant Honda had a successful first outing at Snetterton with Ryuichi Kiyonari taking the race win from his young team-mate Jonathan Rea who took a battling second place.
The final step of the podium went to Leon Haslam on the Airwaves Ducati who dropped off the back of the Honda pair as the race developed.
Ride of the day had to go to Leon Camier on the Bike Animal Honda, he started from the very back row of the grid in twenty ninth place due to missing qualifying because of a gearbox problem. By the end of lap one he was seventeenth and by lap five he was into the top ten, when the race had run full distance he was in fifth place.
When the lights went out it was Rea who got the hole shot and he was followed into Riches by Haslam and Kiyonari with Shane Byrne on the Stobart Honda chasing hard. The pole sitter Byrne had hoped for a podium finish but his race ended on lap four when his bike developed a technical problem.
Dean Thomas on the Samsung Suzuki ran on at Riches and ended up in the potato field at the end of the straight on lap seven – that was the end of his race.
The front runners of Rea, Kiyo and Haslam had settled into a rhythm but it was Gregorio Lavilla on the Airwaves Ducati battling with Tom Sykes on the remaining Stobart Honda that was catching everyone's attention. Sykes was not letting Lavilla past him and they were leaning on one another through Russells chicane and onto the main straight. Lavilla got the better of the young rider and took fourth place.
Back at the front Kiyo had passed his team-mate Rea for the lead and the two Hondas started to pull away from Haslam who admitted after the race that he was having problems with corner entry due to changes they made to his bike's set up.
Lap sixteen saw Lavilla take to the grass and drop himself down the order to sixth place behind the hard charging Camier.
Rea was hoping for a race win but was happy to assist in closing up the points gap to Lavilla in the championship standings.
Mart Nutt on the T&G/Nutttravel.com Yamaha won the privateer's Cup and was lucky not to get tangled up with Tristan Palmer who had passed him on the last lap and then promptly high sided at the final turn sustaining an ankle injury.
BSB race results (1) – Snetterton.
1 Ryuichi Kiyonari JPN HM Plant Honda Racing 24 24:00.410 secs
2 Jonathan Rea GBR HM Plant Honda Racing +0.277 secs
3 Leon Haslam GBR Airwaves Ducati +8.209 secs
4 Tom Sykes GBR Stobart Vent-Axia Motorsport +12.981 secs
5 Leon Camier GBR Bike Animal Honda +14.185 secs
6 Gregorio Lavilla ESP Airwaves Ducati +14.379 secs
7 Tommy Hill GBR Virgin Mobile Optoma Loans Yamaha +18.471 secs
8 Cal Crutchlow GBR Rizla Suzuki +21.387 secs
9 Chris Walker GBR Rizla Suzuki +28.255 secs
10 Tommy Bridewell GBR Team NB +28.552 secs
11 Michael Rutter GBR Isillon MSS Discovery Kawasaki +30.463 secs
12 Simon Andrews GBR Jentin Racing/Lloyds British +37.945 secs
13 Karl Harris GBR Hydrex Honda +40.068 secs
14 Scott Smart GBR Hawk Kawasaki +41.686 secs
15 Steve Plater GBR AIM Racing +48.373 secs
16 Aaron Zanotti GBR SMT Yamaha/Zanotti Racing +49.044 secs
17 Peter Hickman GBR Hawk Kawasaki +49.346 secs
18 Ollie Bridewell GBR Team NB +50.284 secs
19 Hudson Kennaugh GBR Virgin Mobile Optoma Loans Yamaha +54.077 secs
20 Marty Nutt C GBR NuttTravel.com/T+G +1min 05.421 secs
21 James Buckingham C GBR Quay Garage +1min 05.793 secs
22 Tom Tunstall C GBR Hardinge - Ice Valley Motorsport 1 lap
23 Malcolm Ashley C GBR MAR 1 lap
Not classified:
Tristan Palmer GBR THR Racing 21 laps
Dean Thomas AUS Samsung Superbike Team 7 laps
Chris Martin GBR Red Viper Racing 7 laps
Sean Emmett GBR PR Branson Honda Racing 5 laps
Shane Byrne GBR Stobart Vent-Axia Motorsport 4 laps
Paul Barron IRL PBM Racing Ireland 0 laps
Neil Faulkner GBR Team Emco - NSF Racing 0 laps
Kiyonari does the double at Snetterton.
Ryuichi Kiyonari took a stunning double win at Snetterton to steal the championship lead from Gregorio Lavilla.
The HM Plant Honda rider was joined on the podium once again by his team-mate Jonathan Rea in second place.
Shane Byrne on the Stobart Honda managed to complete this race with out any technical problems and the came home in third place. In race one a stone damaged a sensor on Byrne's bike which made the machine think the traction control was on and wouldn't allow it to rev.
The action started on the grid with Cal Crutchlow having a problem with his Rizla Suzuki. He had to retire to his garage for his spare machine and start from the back row of the grid.
Rea was the first man into turn one while Karl Harris was the first person to run on into the crop field. He did rejoin but only managed to fight his way up to fifteenth on his Hydrex Honda.
Rea was pursued by Leon Haslam on the Airwaves Ducati, Byrne was in third and Kiyo was fourth. Leon Camier who started from the back of the grid got up to fifteenth on the first lap while Crutchlow managed to get to nineteenth.
Lavilla didn't get a great start and was running in sixth when his Ducati developed a problem which saw him retire on lap five. On the following lap Kiyo who had slipped into third, put a move on Haslam to take second place at the Esses. He was 0.685secs off the back of Rea so he dug in and started the process of catching the leader.
Camier was still making progress and by lap eight was in seventh place, Crutchlow had also mugged a few more riders to claim fifteenth. The yellow Bike Animal Honda finally finished in sixth place while Crutchlow who got as far up as eleventh, failed to finish due to his bike developing a technical problem.
Meanwhile back at the sharp end Byrne was on the move taking Haslam on lap thirteen. Two laps later Michael Rutter crashed his Isilon MSS Discovery Kawasaki in spectacular style at Russell chicane. The machine, which was on the edge of the track, burst into flames and the safety car was deployed.
The Safety car did bunch up the riders but the top three remained the same. Hudson Kennaugh who is replacing the injured James Haydon on the Virgin Media Optoma Loans Yamaha had a good race finishing in the points in twelfth place.
Marty Nutt did the double in the privateer's Cup on his return from his nasty smash at Silverstone where he sustained broken ribs.
BSB race results (2) – Snetterton.
1 Ryuichi Kiyonari JPN HM Plant Honda Racing 24 26:56.071 secs
2 Jonathan Rea GBR HM Plant Honda Racing +0.625 secs
3 Shane Byrne GBR Stobart Vent-Axia Motorsport +0.920 secs
4 Tom Sykes GBR Stobart Vent-Axia Motorsport +4.420 secs
5 Leon Haslam GBR Airwaves Ducati +4.312 secs
6 Leon Camier GBR Bike Animal Honda +5.650 secs
7 Tommy Hill GBR Virgin Mobile Optoma Loans Yamaha +6.076 secs
8 Scott Smart GBR Hawk Kawasaki +10.530 secs
9 Chris Walker GBR Rizla Suzuki +10.720 secs
10 Aaron Zanotti GBR SMT Yamaha/Zanotti Racing +13.874 secs
11 Hudson Kennaugh GBR Virgin Mobile Optoma Loans Yamaha +14.226 secs
12 Dean Thomas GBR Samsung Superbike Team +14.250 secs
13 Chris Martin C GBR Red Viper Racing +16.623 secs
14 Karl Harris GBR Hydrex Honda +19.915 secs
15 Marty Nutt C GBR NuttTravel.com/T+G +33.798 secs
16 Hudson Kennaugh GBR Virgin Mobile Optoma Loans Yamaha +39.118 secs
17 James Buckingham GBR Quay Garage Honda +41.847 secs
18 Paul Barron C IRL PBM Racing Ireland +44.595 secs
19 Malcolm Ashley C GBR MAR +47.529 secs
20 Neil Faulkner GBR Team Emco - NSF Racing +53.642 secs
21 Tom Tunstall GBR Hardinge - Ice Valley Motorsport 2 laps
Not classified:
Peter Hickman GBR Hawk Kawasaki 19 laps
Cal Crutchlow GBR Rizla Suzuki 15 laps
Michael Rutter GBR Isillon MSS Discovery Kawasaki 14 laps
Tommy Bridewell GBR Team NB 10 laps
Sean Emmett GBR PR Branson Honda Racing 9 laps
Steve Plater GBR AIM Racing 8 laps
Gregorio Lavilla ESP Airwaves Ducati 5 laps
Tristan Palmer GBR THR Racing 2 laps
Simon Andrews GBR Jentin Racing/Lloyds British 0 laps
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