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SUPERBIKE
• second career pole for Max Biaggi, Aprilia's tenth;
• second time on the front row this season for James Toseland after his second place at Kyalami;
• for the first time in his career, Sylvain Guintoli got onto the front row. Before the Nurburgring his best result was a fifth at Phillip Island and Brno;
• Tom Sykes equalled his best season result in grid, eighth, obtained at Monza;
• worst career starting position for Cal Crutchlow, tenth;
• best career starting position for Roger Lee Hayden, eighteenth, for the first time in the top-20;
• sixth career win and sixth straight podium for Jonathan Rea, who for the first time in his career scored a double fastest race lap. In race two Rea wasn't able to lead at all: he had led the previous five races for at least one lap;
• with his win in race two, Noriyuki Haga reached his 110th podium placement;
• Max Biaggi finished in the points for the 32nd straight time and now he is only one race shy of the all-time scoring sequence of John Kocinski (Sentul 1996-1997). Relevant figures also for Sylvain Guintoli, at his 23rd straight race in the points.


SUPERSPORT
• first career hat trick for Eugene Laverty, with pole, win and fastest race lap;
• Kenan Sofuoglu recorded his fourteenth straight podium, setting the new class record;
• the Nurburgring race was the 90th straight with a Honda on the front row of the grid.


SUPERSTOCK 1000
Ayrton Badovini's domination continues: at the moment the Italian rider is the record holder of wins (10), poles (12) and fastest laps (8); he also holds the record for the longest sequence of wins (8, double the previous record of Xavier Simeon) and poles (5).


SUPERSTOCK 600
• maiden podium for Tony Covena;
• Marc Moser scored his maiden pole and the first one for Triumph, the sixth manufacturer to post a pole behind Yamaha (32), Honda (12), Ducati (6), Suzuki (5) and Kawasaki (3);
• Jeremy Guarnoni won his fifth race and now he is only one win shy of becoming the most successful rider of the series: the record belongs to Maxime Berger, with six wins, obtained in 2005 and 2007;
• Jeremy's win at the Nurburgring allowed France to reach Italy at the top of the most successful countries, with 21 wins each. The last win by an Italian rider came in last year's Portimao race (Marco Bussolotti), while French riders have won seven times this season;
• for the fourth time in history, Yamaha was able to record a sequence of five wins in Superstock 600: only the Japanese manufacturer has been able to record such a feat.

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Source: World Superbike

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