Chaz Davies took his third victory of the 2013 World Superbike championship in a exciting race 2 at Nurburgring (where Davies took his first every SBK win) that like race 1 was red flagged with just two laps remaining in the race, and when Davies, Eugene Laverty and Marco Melandri (the other two podium finishers) were ready to rumble a few more times.
This time the oil on the track surface was promptly spotted, after wwildcard Matej Smrz violently highsided from his Yamaha R1 at turn 1, leaving a big puddle of oil right in middle of the track.
It was a battled race from start to the premature finish between Davies, Laverty and Melandri, with Tom Sykes marginally getting into the fray in the middle of the race, but his fourth place was good enough to take the lead of the standings by one single point over Sylvain Guintoli, who managed to finish 5th.
It was Marco Melandri who got the hole shot and trailing behind him were Tom Sykes and BMW team mate Chaz Davies, while Eugene Laverty shot up to 6th trailing his Aprilia counterpart, but one lap later the Nothern Irishman was already ahead of his team mate, as Davies took second from Sykes at turn 1 and began chasing after his team mate.
Laverty got past a lagging Sykes at the NGK chicane grabbing third – a big improvement from his first race when he hit his engine casing on the kerb that forced him to pit and return to finish 15th.
On lap 7 Davies took the lead from Melandri and just a few minutes later Laverty would demote Melandri to third in his favourite braking spot, turn 1.
For a long while it seemed that the three were biding their times, studying each other until Melandri made two bold passes in the same lap, first eliminating Laverty and then Davies With just four laps remaining Davies dives back in front his team mate at the chicane and then Laverty passed Melandri again at turn 1 to take the second spot.
As the penultimate lap started, you could see the riders begin lining each other up for a last lap battle, only to have the red flag come out, giving Davies the victory.
Loris Baz was unable to take part in race 2 after being diagnosed with the fractured vertebrae.
Leon Camier was was airlifted to the Stiffungs Klinicum in Koblenz for further observations on potential neck injury.
Dr.
Corbascio of the Clinica Mobile confirmed that Jonathan Rea suffered a fractured femur was also airlifted out.
2013 WSBK Nurburgring Race 2 Results: 1.
Chaz Davies (BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK) BMW S1000 RR 34′36.
933 2.
Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 34′37.
065 3.
Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK) BMW S1000 RR 34′37.
299 4.
Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) Kawasaki ZX-10R 34′38.
122 5.
Sylvain Guintoli (Aprilia Racing Team) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 34′38.
554 6.
Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 34′40.
166 7.
Ayrton Badovini (Team Ducati Alstare) Ducati 1199 Panigale 34′51.
610 8.
Michel Fabrizio (Red Devils Roma) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 34′55.
792 9.
Max Neukirchner (MR-Racing) Ducati 1199 Panigale 34′59.
058 10.
Carlos Checa (Team Ducati Alstare) Ducati 1199 Panigale 35′00.
761 11.
Mark Aitchison (Team Pedercini) Kawasaki ZX-10R 35′07.
377 12.
Markus Reiterberger (Vanzon-Remeha-BMW) BMW S1000 RR 35′13.
352 13.
Leon Haslam (Pata Honda World Superbike) Honda CBR1000RR 35′36.
720 14.
Jules Cluzel (Fixi Crescent Suzuki) Suzuki GSX-R1000 35′42.
264 15.
Vittorio Iannuzzo (Grillini Dentalmatic SBK) BMW S1000 RR 36′04.
314 RT.
Matej Smrz (Yamaha Motor Deutschland) Yamaha YZF R1 35′30.
715 RT.
Federico Sandi (Team Pedercini) Kawasaki ZX-10R 2′08.
950
