Carlos Checa

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...  

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...  

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 ...  

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.  

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...  

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 ...  

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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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...