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Magny-Cours: Inspired Bayliss grabs win from Haga.

Sunday, 5th October 2008

Troy Bayliss shows exactly why he is the 2008 World Superbike Champion with a fighting victory in the second race at Magny-Cours.

Yukio Kagayama got the better of his Suzuki team-mates to finish a solid seventh, the Japanese rider taking advantage as race one podium sitter Fonsi Nieto and Max Neukirchner perplexingly slid down the order. The trio would eventually finish seventh, eighth and ninth.

After the disappointment of retiring from the first race, Roberto Rolfo was able to put his good grid position to better use in race two, the Italian battling hard with the front runners early on before eventually finishing tenth.

Lorenzo Lanzi was a quiet 11th, ahead of Gregorio Lavilla and Jakub Smrz, the privateer riders having been able to get the better of Michel Fabrizio, who ran as high as seventh early on before dropping back down the field at an alarming rate. His retirement in the first race means he scores just two points this weekend.

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As was the case in the first race, Chris Walker grabbed the 15th and final point on the Paul Bird Motorsport Honda.

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