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Spain’s Carlos Checa, Italy’s Marco Melandri win World Superbike races By Steve Luhm The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 28, 2012 01:32PM MDT Tooele • Spain’s Carlos Checa and Italy’s Marco Melandri raced to victory Monday in two FIM Superbike World Championship races at Miller Motorsports Park. One win was expected. The other? Not so much. In Race 1, Checa won in Utah for the fifth time in five years with an overpowering performance...  

Reigning world superbike champion Carlos Checa and BMW rider Marco Melandri took a win apiece in Utah after Checa crashed out of the lead in race two. The World Superbike championship again turned on thrilling racing with Jonny Rea pushing Melandri right ...  

Motorsports: Jakub Smrz surprises Carlos Checa, grabs World Superbike pole By Steve Luhm The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 27, 2012 11:29PM MDT Tooele • Everything was going as expected Sunday afternoon. Spain’s Carlos Checa owned the fastest lap time in the final moments of Superpole 3, meaning he was about the claim the pole position for Monday’s FIM Superbike World Championship races. Hello, Jakub Smrz. A 29-year-old from the...  

Tooele • Spain’s Carlos Checa and Italy’s Marco Melandri scored victories Monday in two FIM Superbike World Championship races at Miller Motorsports Park. In Race 1, Checa seized control early and rolled to victory aboard his Ducati 1098R motorcycle ...  

Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) and Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) went 1-2 in the second race at Miller, which was hal... Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) pulled a controlled win out of the bag at Miller in race one, eventually ...  

I just missed that slipstream from Melandri. “And in race one I was missing some front traction so I was not able to get the bike into the corners very well and obviously that affected my mid-corner and exit speed.” Reigning champion Carlos Checa took ...  

Tooele • Jakub Smrz of the Czech Republic edged Spain’s Carlos Checa in Superpole 3 on Sunday to capture the pole position in the FIM Superbike World Championship at Miller Motorsports Park. It appeared Checa had secured the pole position with a best ...  

2012 Miller Motorsports Park World Superbike Winner Quotes: Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati 1198 Superbike) says: "Race 1 - a great result, a great race ... "It was such a difficult race for me. I was lucky for sure when Carlos made a mistake.  

Carlos Checa won the first World Superbike race at the Miller Motorsports Park in Utah.  

Carlos Checa wins the first World Superbike race in Utah but crashes out of race two, which was won by Marco Melandri.  

TOOELE — Over the past five years, few racers have proven able to beat Carlos Checa at Miller Motorsports Park — other than Checa himself. The Spaniard posted sweeps of both FIM Superbike races in 2008 and 2011, with mechanical problems with ...  

BigM Weekend/FIM Superbike World Championship Miller Motorsports Park Tooele, Utah May 28, 2012 Race One Results (all on Pirelli tires): 1. Carlos CHECA, Spain (Ducati 1098R), 21 laps, 38:21.283 2. Marco MELANDRI, Italy (BMW S1000RR), -2.313 secon...  

BigM Weekend/FIM Superbike World Championship Miller Motorsports Park Tooele, Utah May 27, 2012 Free Practice Two Results (all on Pirelli tires): 1. Carlos CHECA, Spain (Ducati 1098R), 1:48.283, crash 2. Jonathan REA, UK (Honda CBR1000RR), 1:48.67...  

TOOELE — Although Spain's Carlos Checa has dominated the FIM World Superbike events at Miller Motorsports Park, it was the Czech Republic's Jakub Smrz who earned himself the pole position for both championship races. Checa jumped out to an ...  

Carlos Checa continued his unprecedented run of form at the Miller Motorsports Park round with a brilliant race one win. The 39 year old Spaniard had to fight hard at the beginning of the race with Tom Sykes, Jonathan Rea and Marco Melandri but ...  

Ducati dominated the first qualifying session at Miller Motorsports Park, with Jakub Smrz and defending World Superbike champion Carlos Checa setting the fastest times. Smrz was quickest in the first timed session at the venue near Salt Lake ...  

Althea Ducati's Carlos Checa will attempts to make it wins five and six around Miller Motorsports Park from second position on the grid.  

Jakub Smrz and Carlos Checa have continued Ducati's World Superbike domination at Miller Motorsport Park with the pair going half a second faster than Marco Melandri in the ... Fabrizio's BMW Italia bike while Maxime Berger and Lorenzo Zanetti complete ...  

In sunny conditions Tom Sykes set the fastest time of this morning’s warm-up session at Miller with a best time of 1.49.080. The factory Kawasaki rider topped the time sheets ahead of Carlos Checa, Marco Melandri and Max Biaggi. Although track ...  

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One win and two runner-up finishes in nine starts ... Finished second in one race and crashed in the other at Miller Motorsports Park in 2011 CARLOS CHECA, Spain, Althea Racing Born in Sant Fruitos de Bages ... Turns 40 on Oct. 15 ... 2011 World Superbike champion  

After a recent dry spell, reigning World Superbike champion Carlos Checa will be salivating at the prospect of returning to Miller Motorsports Park in Salt Lake City from May 26-28. Checa has been a law unto himself at Miller in recent years, and could ...  

Althea Ducati's Carlos Checa determined to claw back ground on series leader Max Biaggi at Miller Motorsports Park  

“I want to set-up and improve the Panigale and probably, if things are going well, race with that bike next year” - Carlos Checa.  

Salt Lake City (USA), Wednesday 23rd May 2012: the Althea Racing team's riders Carlos Checa and Davide Giugliano cannot wait to race at the American Miller Motorsports Park circuit in Salt Lake City this coming weekend. For Checa, this is his favourite ...  

Carlos Checa knows he needs to leave Miller Motorsports Park ... At Donington we lost ground in the classification and so definitely need a strong weekend now.” Althea Racing teammate Davide Giugliano is racing at Miller for the first time with the ...  

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Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) is fourth on 105.5. The top four championship places are now covered by only 23 points, after five rounds and nine individual races. Race 1 A truly historic 1-2 for BMW saw Melandri win the opening race with his team ...  

Carlos Checa endures his toughest weekend for some time as he manages just a single sixth place finish at Donington Park.  

Defending champion Carlos Checa sits at the top of the World Superbike standings after a double win in Imola on Sunday. The Althea Racing Ducati rider's double was his first of the season in just the second round, but he had to work hard for it amid a ...  

Carlos Checa is looking forward to reviving his championship defence at Miller Motorsports Park after falling 23 points off the pace with a crash at Donington Park. The Spaniard only managed sixth in race one before becoming involved in an accident with ...  

Carlos Checa can only manage ninth position in qualifying at Donington Park after struggling to find grip on his Althea Ducati.  

After the rain flags came out momentarily at the start of the 45-minute session track conditions improved and a flurry of fast times in the last few minutes of qualifying put Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) second, Carlos Checa (Althea Racing ...  

Carlos Checa casts a pessimistic figure heading into the fourth round of the 2012 World Superbike Championship at Monza, the champion admitting he will struggle to make the top five.  

BigM Weekend/FIM Superbike World Championship Miller Motorsports Park Tooele, Utah May 28, 2012 Warmup Results (all on Pirelli tires): 1. Tom SYKES, UK (Kawasaki ZX-10R), 1:49.080 2. Carlos CHECA, Spain (Ducati 1098R), 1:49.235 3. Marco MELANDRI,...  

Althea Ducati's Carlos Checa Checa tumbled down the points standings after a less than stellar weekend at Donington Park which saw finish sixth in race one and crash out of race two on the first lap. The Spanish Althea Ducati rider ran into the back of ...  

Reigning champion Carlos Checa expects his Monza struggles to continue when the Superbike World Championship returns to the Milan circuit this weekend. Checa and his Althea Ducati were the dominant force as the Spaniard romped to the title last season ...  

Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) took his second race win of the season after an incident-strewn race at Donington. On the first corner Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) and Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) touched and Checa went down ...  

Carlos Checa eyes a return to the top step of the podium at Donington Park, but is aware of the renewed British challenge...  

Max Biaggi and Carlos Checa raced together as teammates at Yamaha from1999 to 2002, and were later reunited as competitors in WSBK.  The Italian rider won the title in 2010, while the Spaniard took it away from him the following season.  Both race for ...  

Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) was third in Tissot-Superpole, Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) fourth. Sylvain Guintoli: “First pole for me and in difficult conditions! Unlike Tom and Marco I’m hoping for rain tomorrow, I’ll probably do ...  

Monza is a high speed circuit which asks riders to be brave on the brakes. This will be a hard round for Carlos Checa, whose best finish here over the past two seasons was ninth in race one and 10th in race two of 2011. This is the worst circuit for Ducati ...  

Carlos Checa says he was prepared to race in 'full wet' conditions of race one, but admits he didn't approve of starting on a part dry-part wet circuit.  

Carlos Checa wants to get plenty of points in the bag at Assen ahead of what he expects will be a tougher weekend at the high-speed Monza. Carlos Checa says he is striving for a good points' haul at Assen to consolidate his advantage at the top of the 2012 ...  

The inclement weather conditions play into the hands of Carlos Checa and Althea Ducati as the Spaniard qualifies on the front row.  

Carlos Checa is on a damage limitation mission this weekend as he travels to a Monza circuit he has struggled at in the past. The defending world champion dominated the 2011 season most weekends, but at the Milan cicuit he qualified outside the ...  

Carlos Checa looks to extend his World SBK points advantage over rival Max Biaggi, as Round 3 of the World Superbike Championship approaches at Assen.  

FIM Superbike World Championship Assen, Netherlands April 20, 2012 Free Practice One (all on Pirelli tires): 1. Marco MELANDRI, Italy (BMW S1000RR), 1:37.582 2. Carlos CHECA, Spain (Ducati 1098R), 1:37.711 3. Tom SYKES, UK (Kawasaki ZX-10R), 1:37....  

BigM Weekend/FIM Superbike World Championship Miller Motorsports Park Tooele, Utah May 26, 2012 Qualifying Session One Results (all on Pirelli tires): 1. Jakub SMRZ, Czech Republic (Ducati 1098R), 1:49.842 2. Carlos CHECA, Spain (Ducati 1098R), 1:...  

Giorgio Barbier, Racing Director, Pirelli Moto SBK Race 2 - Carlos Checa (Althea Racing ... following the disastrous crash in race two this afternoon in Assen, after ... Polish rider Adrian Pasek won the opening round of the KTM European Junior Cup ...  

The KRT rider took top honors in a wet Superpole session. Honda’s Jonathan Rea joins Sykes on the front row, alongside Liberty Racing Ducati’s Jakub Smrz and Sylvain Guintoli. Defending champion Carlos Checa was fifth-fastest, while Aprilia’s Max ...  

The French rider led and all-Ducati podium, flanked by Althea Racing’s Davide Giugliano and Carlos Checa. The factory Aprilia duo of Max Biaggi and Eugene Laverty followed the rostrum Ducati’s to round out the top five. The initial start saw pole ...  

Reigning World Superbike champion and 2012 points leader Carlos Checa finished day one of the Assen round with fourth place in first qualifying.  

The former Canadian Superbike champion was running in 11th position when he collided with Carlos Checa and tumbled heavily, injuring his spine, face, eye and hand. McCormick, who made his World Superbike debut on the fourth Effenbert Liberty Ducati at ...  

Carlos Checa will start off the front row of a World Superbike race for the first time since Monza 2011 after qualifying fifth at Assen.  

Checa claims title lead in ImolaFox SportsBy Jacob Black Althea Racing's Carlos Checa has claimed a double win in Imola to take the lead of World Superbike championship. The reigning World Superbike champion lost points to Italian Max Biaggi in the opening race of the season at Phillip Island ...and more »  

An emotional Carlos Checa returns to the head of the World Superbike Championship standings as he dominates race day at Imola.  

Superbike World Championship Enzo e Dino Ferrari Circuit Imola, Italy April 1, 2012 Race One Results (All on Pirelli spec tires) 1. Carlos Checa, Spain (Ducati), 21 laps, 38:06.264 2. Tom Sykes, UK (Kawasaki), -3.206m seconds 3. Leon Haslam, UK (BM...  

FIM Superbike World Championship Imola, Italy March 30 Free Practice One Results (all on Pirelli tires): 1. Ayrton BADOVINI, Italy (BMW S1000RR), 1:49.081 2. Sylvain GUINTOLI, France (Ducati 1098R), 1:49.224 3. Carlos CHECA, Spain (Ducati 1098R), ...  

Jonathan Rea took two top ten finishes in this afternoon’s second round World Superbike championship races at Imola in Italy, both of which were won by Spain’s Carlos Checa. Rea’s Honda World Superbike team-mate, Hiroshi Aoyama, continued his ...  

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Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) played a strong second card at Imola to take his first double win of 2012, ahead of Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) and the hard charging Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport). Sykes set a new lap record of 1 minute 47 ...  

Defending champion Carlos Checa sits at the top of the World Superbike standings after a double win in Imola. The Althea Racing Ducati rider's double was his first of the season in just the second round, but he had to work hard for it amid a strong ...  

Sykes responded quickly with 1:37.630 to relegate Leon Camier to third, ahead of series leader and reigning champion Carlos Checa. Jonathan Rea was fifth-fastest for the Dutch-based Honda team, and joined Checa in fitting in some wet-weather practice in ...  

Defending champion Carlos Checa sits at the top of the World Superbike standings after a double win in Imola. The Althea Racing Ducati rider's double was his first of the season in just the second round, but he had to work hard for it amid a strong ...  

The 2012 competition features last year's champion and current points leader Carlos Checa from Spain alongside 2010 winner Max Biaggi from Italy, while the Australian contingent in the series is currently headed by Mark Aitchison. The eni FIM Superbike ...  

Carlos Checa repeated his 2010 weekend, scoring his second double in Imola, and taking his tally of wins on the Santerno track to five. Two milestones for him: 23 wins, the same number as 1990 world champion Raymond Roche, in an all-time seventh place.  

Carlos Checa says it is his fault he started the second race at Assen on full wet tyres despite the drying conditions.  

The battle for third went to Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing) his first podium of 2012. His team-mate Max Biaggi is now leading the championship after finishing eighth in race two, one point ahead of Carlos Checa (Althea Racing). Checa gambled on rain tyres ...  

Imola (Italy), Sunday 1 April 2012 – Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) was a force to be reckoned with once more at Ducati’s home circuit, and he duly posted his desired double in the FIM Superbike World Championship races in front of ...  

Imola (Italy), Monday 2 April 2012 - Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) set quickest time in the official one-day Superbike test session at Imola, the day after the World Championship round dominated by Carlos Checa (Ducati Althea Racing).  

Imola (Italy), Monday 2 April 2012 - Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) set quickest time in the official one-day Superbike test session at Imola, the day after the World Championship round dominated by Carlos Checa (Ducati Althea Racing).  

Today the two champions were present at the official press conference together with 2011 title winner Carlos Checa (Ducati Althea Racing), 2011 race 1 winner Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) and 2009 winner Michel Fabrizio (BMW Motorrad Italia ...  

Spain's Carlos Checa claimed both race wins in the second round of the world superbikes championships in Imola, Italy. Checa sits in second place on the overall standings on 50 points, eight shy of Italy's leader Max Biaggi. Australia's Mark Aitchison was ...  

Carlos Checa won race one at Imola in the second round of the 2012 World Superbike season. It was the Ducati rider's 22nd career win.  

The most successful riders, with three wins apiece, are Laconi, Carlos Checa and Ruben Xaus. The only Italian to win at Imola is Michel Fabrizio (Ducati) in 2009. In four races Biaggi has scored a second, a fourth, a fifth and an 11th place, while Melandri ...  

Kawasaki rider Tom Sykes was unable to hold off reigning world champion Carlos Checa in race one at Imola despite leading the first half of the race. Sykes got the holeshot from pole position, and looked comfortable in the lead for the first ...  

Althea Ducati rider Carlos Checa has won both WSB races at Imola today to take the lead in the championship. It was the same story as race one, with pole setter Tom Sykes getting off to a flyer and leading the race by up to 2.6 seconds and setting a new ...  

Althea Ducati rider Carlos Checa has won both WSB races at Imola today to take the lead in the championship. It was the same story as race one, with pole setter Tom Sykes getting off to a flyer and leading the race by up to 2.6 seconds and setting a new ...  

Althea Racing's Carlos Checa set to test new Ducati Panigale 1199 for first time at Mugello in June  

TEAM ALTHEA RACING KICKS OFF THE EUROPEAN LEG OF THE SBK TOUR THIS WEEKEND AT IMOLA Imola (Italy), Wednesday ... At the opening round of Phillip Island, which took place in Australia one month ago, reigning world champion Carlos Checa experienced highs ...  

Althea Ducati's Carlos Checa ditches qualifying rubber to snatch front row start at Imola  

Althea Racing's Carlos Checa relishing return to Ducati's home track at Imola in Italy this weekend  

CHAMPIONSHIP LEADERS CHECA AND ALTHEA RACING PREPARE FOR SBK ROUND 3 AT ASSEN’S TT CIRCUIT THIS WEEKEND Assen (The Netherlands), Tuesday 17th April 2012: championship leaders Carlos Checa and the Althea Racing team are all set to return to the histor...  

TEAM ALTHEA RACING KICKS OFF THE EUROPEAN LEG OF THE SBK TOUR THIS WEEKEND AT IMOLA Imola (Italy), Wednesday 28th March 2012: team Althea Racing and its riders Carlos Checa and Davide Giugliano arrived at Imola today, ready to do battle in the second r...  

Now I hope to be with Leon on the podium.” Leon Camier (FIXI Crescent Suzuki) scored seventh place on the grid and will be joined on the second row by Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert Ducati). 2011 world champion Carlos Checa (Althea Racing ...  

On the first corner Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) and Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) touched and Checa went down, taking out Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert Ducati) and Checa’s team-mate Davide Giugliano. Then Laverty himself ...  

And after a year absence, Donington returned to the World SBK Championship last year, awarding Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad) the first race, and that year's champion, Althea Ducati's Carlos Checa, the second. Checa's win was the 17th for Ducati at ...  

Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) and Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) headed up a warring group of six potential podium riders, with Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing Team) fifth and Carlos Checa ... YZF R6 43.577; 8. Antonelli A.  

Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli (Team Effenbert Liberty Racing Ducati) was second, after a late charge from Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) was ultimately unsuccessful. Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) was fourth and first BMW rider in the final pre ...  

Ducati's home track of Imola was the setting for Round 2 of the championship, which took place just over a fortnight ago. Carlos could not have done better in front of what he considers to be his adoptive home crowd, beating off competition, in the form of ...  

Carlos’ team-mate Davide Giugliano and his technicians have turned the page on a disappointing Imola round and will concentrate on taking the best possible results at a track where the young Italian rider has already shown strong form in the past.  

He scorched to a remarkable lap of 1min 27.716secs around the 2.5 mile Leicestershire circuit – over a second inside the year-old record set by reigning champ Carlos Checa. “Pole is fantastic but now I have to do the job in the races.” said Sykes ...  

Honda World Superbike Team rider Jonathan Rea scored the fastest lap of the second free practice session with a 1 minute 28.856 second lap, leaving it very late to overhaul 2011 Champion Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati). Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad ...  

Max Biaggi took over at the head of the Championship standings after former leader Carlos Checa failed to score in the second race. Crescent FIXI Suzuki will next be in action in Italy when the World Superbike paddock heads to Monza for the fourth round of ...  

The team will instead focus on Sykes, whose blistering form so far this season has seen him claim two pole positions and mark up a finishing run of 4-3-2-2 to put him alongside leaders Carlos Checa and Max Biaggi in the standings. And, following some ...  

The wins last year went to Jonathan Rea (Honda) and Carlos Checa (Ducati) who then clinched the title at the final round. In the previous nine World Superbike meetings at Imola (17 races in total because Race 2 in 2005 was cancelled due to pouring rain ...  

Sykes set a new track record of one minute 46.748 seconds to finish around half a second ahead of Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli (Liberty Racing) and champion Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati). Sykes will hope for better in Sunday's two races than he could manage ...  

Spain's Carlos Checa was third on the timesheet was a time of 1:49.230. Badovini's fellow Italians Max Biaggi and Marco Melandri – who are first and second in the rider standings respectively after the season-opening races at Phillip Island – clocked ...  

Fellow Brit Leon Haslam jumped up the leader board in qualifying to end the day sixth fastest ahead of reigning WSB champion Carlos Checa. Haslam said: “In free practice we were working a lot with the mapping to get it working with the new engine to ...  

Ducati has been at the top of the World Superbike world for the last few years with Carlos Checa and motorcycle racing icon Valentino Rossi has been riding a Ducati (with little success) on the MotoGP circuit since last season. The Ducati brand ...  

"Salt Lake City is next up on the calendar and I'm confident that the Aprilia will work well on that layout and surface. "Carlos Checa will be hard to beat around there but I plan on giving it a good go in order to get back in the title hunt."  

But it was a disappointing day for his principal title rival, as defending champion Carlos Checa could only hustle his Althea Ducati round to seventh-fastest, a major surprise given the Spaniard holds the lap record. The two rivals were ...  

Sylvain Guintoli is fifth, Jonathan Rae Leon Camier sixth and Q2's quickest man, Jakub Smrz, in seventh. Reigning champion Carlos Checa will start from ninth place on Sunday, having failed to make the grade in Superpole 2.  

Sylvain Guintoli is fifth, Jonathan Rae Leon Camier sixth and Q2's quickest man, Jakub Smrz, in seventh. Reigning champion Carlos Checa will start from ninth place on Sunday, having failed to make the grade in Superpole 2.  

In contrast to such trials, Ducati currently leads the World Superbikes constructors' championship, with Carlos Checa at the head of the riders' standings.  

Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) waited until half race distance to put a move on early leader Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) but when...