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TOUGH SATURDAY FOR BMW MOTORRAD WORLDSBK TEAM AT MISANO WORLDSBK ROUND

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The FIM Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) is at Misano on the Italian Adriatic coast, this weekend for round three of the 2021 season. Saturday proved to be a difficult day for BMW Motorrad Motorsport. Tom Sykes (GBR) and Michael van der Mark (NED) from the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team ended the opening race in eighth and tenth place.

 

In Saturday morning’s Superpole, Van der Mark finished 13th on his BMW M 1000 RR. Right from the start in Race 1, van der Mark set his sights on the top ten, crossing the finish line in tenth place after 21 laps of racing.

 

“I’m not really happy with the result. In this morning’s FP3, we made a good step forward but unfortunately I did not feel as good in qualifying. So it was P13 on the grid. I had an okay start, but I especially struggled with the front. To be honest I was just riding around with a too slow pace. Now we have to sort out some problems; so we have a lot of work to do for tomorrow.”

 

Fans are permitted in the grandstands at Misano for the first time this season. They were given a special welcome from the starting grid by van der Mark, Sykes, Folger and BMW Motorrad Motorsport Director Marc Bongers – with signs which said “Welcome back Fans. Bentornati.”