Excellent performance for Sprint Filter Riders
A triumphant weekend for riders and teams competing in the SBK (WSBK) and Supersport (WSSP) World Championships. Let’s start with the story: Nicolò Bulega and the Aruba Racing WorldSSP Team dominated both heats of the Australian race, taking the Ducati Panigale V2 for the first time, 18 years after the last victory of the Ducati SC Caracchi Team’s Ducati 749R with Gianluca Nannelli.
An excellent third place in Race 2 for the standard bearer of the Kawasaki Puccetti team, the Turkish Can Oncu, another pretender to the 2023 Supersport World Champion title, and the first prestigious podium in Race 1 for a completely new team, Vince64 by Puccetti Racing for the Kawasaki ZX6-R ridden by rookie Jon McPhee, coming directly from the Moto3 World Championship.
Unfortunately some pretenders to the podium such as Yari Montella and Adrian Huertas had an accident in Race 1 with physical consequences which also excluded them from Race 2.
Excellent results also in the SBK Championship
In the SBK class, where Ducati dominated, winning all three races, Danilo Petrucci, on the Barni team’s Ducati Panigale V4R, a MotoGP star and coming from experience in Moto America, got to grips with the new bike esd the new tyres.
Speed records for Ducati
His bike recorded a record top speed of 333.4 km/h and its tonnage pays off much higher than its competitors. With an eighth, an eleventh and a ninth place, Danilo is now ninth in the General Classification and is waiting to return to Europe, after the next race in Indonesia, to better adjust the setup of his bike, adapting it to his size.
Not significant results for Lorenzo Baldassarri (Yamaha R1 – GMT94 Yamaha), Tom Sykes (Kawasaki ZX-10R – Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) and Oliver Kong (Kawasaki ZX10-R – Orelac Racing).
Sprint Filter together with the champions
