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Kenan Sofuoglu riding for Hannspree Ten Kate Honda has been the consistent man at the vanguard of the championship so far, but he holds a slender seven point advantage over 2002 champion, GIL Kawasaki rider Fabien Foret, who scored the most recent WSS race win at Phillip Island.
In third place overall Katsuaki Fujiwara on the Althea Honda has been right back to form after an injury-blighted 2006 season, and he is third in the table.
A cosmopolitan WSS grid has Kevin Curtain on the SSP Yamaha currently fourth, despite some bad luck in early races, but two strong and consistent rides on less than full-powered machinery have not stopped Pere Riba aboard the GIL Kawasaki from scoring fifth place so far.
2005 and 2006 champion Sebastien Charpentier with Hannspree Ten Kate Honda languishes ninth overall, after a fall and an off-podium finish at Phillip Island. Curtain's team-mate Broc Parkes scored a strong podium in Phillip Island, but he still sits behind the fast Danish rider, Robbin Harms on the Stiggy Motorsports Honda. Gianluca Nannelli for Team Caracchi Ducati SC 749R may find the flowing nature of
Donington the key to his potential success, despite a retirement from the most recent race.
