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Carlos Checa (Ducati Althea Racing) was quickest overall at the end of the four SBK official test sessions held at the Phillip Island circuit. On his Ducati 1098R the Spaniard, who won one of the races here in Australia last year, put a gap of over half-a-second between himself and second-placed man Sylvain Guintoli (Ducati Effenbert - Liberty Racing).
Jonathan Rea (Castrol Honda), who crashed in the early stages of the last session, was taken by helicopter to hospital for an X-ray on his left wrist and on the ring finger of his left hand.

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Fourth quickest overall was Jakub Smrz (Ducati Effenbert - Liberty Racing), followed by Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki) and by Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia), whose best time of the two days came in the final session.

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Several crashes marked the final stages of the two-and-a-half hour session. Michel Fabrizio, Marco Melandri and Lascorz all went down and were taken to the Medical Centre for checks.



Source: World Superbike

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