Eugene Laverty is the ‘sultan’ of the Intercity Istanbul Park circuit.
The Aprilia rider after his victory in race 1, repeating himself in race 2 in the inaugural World Superbike championship in Turkey.
Race 2 seemed a copy of race 1 with Tom Sykes on the holeshot and trying to get away but this time trailing him was Sylvain Guintoli while the other Aprilia factory rider fell back to fifth.
However Laverty wanted another podium as he picked off the riders in front of him and then relentlessly hunted down Sykes and passing with just five laps remaining in the race.
Once past the Kawasaki rider, Laverty just slipped away and raced to the finish line uncontested for the victory – his sixth of the 2013 season.
Despite being on the top of the timesheets, Sylvain Guintoli managed to take home a third place podium, but he was expecting much more as he is now eight points behind Sykes in the standings.
Marco Melandri was fourth.
The BMW rider lost a inordinately amount of time battling with his former MotoGP and Gresini team mate Toni Elias, who would outbrake the Italian every time until Melandri changed his tatics and managed to get past him, but it was too late to chase after the leaders of the race.
Elias had a fantastic World Superbike debut taking a fifth place and fighting off Chaz Davies on the final lap for the position.
Jules Cluzel and Leon Haslam would also battle throughout the race for seventh place, with the position going going to the Suzuki rider, while Davide Giugliano and Michel Fabrizio completed the top ten.
For the first time in 26 years there were only 15 riders on the starting grid as Ayrton Badovini sat out race two, his injured ankle bothering him too much.
Mark Aitchison took 11th ahead of Federico Sandi, Vittorio Iannuzzo, while Tolga Urpak and Yunus Ercelik went to points again.
2013 WSBK Istanbul Race 2 results:01- Eugene Laverty – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – 18 laps in 34’58.
775 02- Tom Sykes – Kawasaki Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 1.
708 03- Sylvain Guintoli – Aprilia Racing Team – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 4.
052 04- Marco Melandri – BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team – BMW S1000RR – + 10.
860 05- Toni Elias – Red Devils Roma – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 12.
171 06- Chaz Davies – BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team – BMW S1000RR – + 12.
396 07- Jules Cluzel – FIXI Crescent Suzuki – Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – + 17.
434 08- Leon Haslam – Pata Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 17.
683 09- Davide Giugliano – Althea Racing – Aprilia RSV4 Factory – + 25.
770 10- Michel Fabrizio – Pata Honda World Superbike Team – Honda CBR 1000RR – + 38.
735 11- Mark Aitchison – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 48.
892 12- Federico Sandi – Team Pedercini – Kawasaki ZX-10R – + 49.
136 13- Vittorio Iannuzzo – Grillini Dentalmatic SBK – BMW S1000RR – + 1’36.
589 14- Tolga Uprak – CMS Eypbike Racing Team – Kawasaki ZX-10R – 1 lap 15- Yunus Ercelik – Sampiyon 169 Team – BMW S1000RR – a 1ap
