2008 Phillip Island Superbike World Championship round

2008 Australian Superbike World Championship round
Round details
	Round 2 of 14 rounds in the ; 2008 Superbike World Championship.; and; Round 2 of 13 rounds in the ; 2008 Supersport World Championship.
Date	2 March, 2008
Location	Phillip Island
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.445 km (2.762 mi)
Superbike World Championship
Pole position
	Troy Bayliss
	1:31.493
Troy Bayliss	Max Biaggi
1:32.516	1:32.477
Supersport World Championship
Pole position
	Andrew Pitt
	1:34.592
Fastest lap
	Robbin Harms
	1:35.429

Last updated September 10, 2019

The 2008 Phillip Island Superbike World Championship round was the 2nd round of the 2008 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of 29 February-2 March 2008, at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit near Cowes, Victoria, Australia.

The Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing circuit located near Ventnor, on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. The current circuit was first used in 1956.

Cowes, Victoria Town in Victoria, Australia

Cowes is the main township on Phillip Island in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It is about two hours' drive from Melbourne and can also be reached by coach, or passenger ferry from Stony Point on the Mornington Peninsula. Cowes is located on the northern side of Phillip Island and faces towards French Island and the Mornington Peninsula. At the 2016 census, Cowes had a population of 4,839.

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.

Superbike race 1 classification

Pos	No	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	21	Troy Bayliss	Ducati 1098 F08	22	34:22.933	1	25
2	11	Troy Corser	Yamaha YZF-R1	22	+4.221	2	20
3	84	Michel Fabrizio	Ducati 1098 F08	22	+4.738	3	16
4	111	Rubén Xaus	Ducati 1098 RS 08	22	+5.171	11	13
5	10	Fonsi Nieto	Suzuki GSX-R1000	22	+5.543	5	11
6	7	Carlos Checa	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+5.895	4	10
7	76	Max Neukirchner	Suzuki GSX-R1000	22	+5.964	8	9
8	41	Noriyuki Haga	Yamaha YZF-R1	22	+14.826	7	8
9	23	Ryuichi Kiyonari	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+18.899	19	7
10	44	Roberto Rolfo	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+20.633	13	6
11	36	Gregorio Lavilla	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+21.601	14	5
12	31	Karl Muggeridge	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+29.281	12	4
13	57	Lorenzo Lanzi	Ducati 1098 RS 08	22	+29.500	17	3
14	54	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+30.030	21	2
15	38	Shinichi Nakatomi	Yamaha YZF-R1	22	+30.223	22	1
16	194	Sébastien Gimbert	Yamaha YZF-R1	22	+30.800	20
17	83	Russell Holland	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+50.107	9
18	88	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+1:07.385	24
Ret	3	Max Biaggi	Ducati 1098 RS 08	15	Accident	16
Ret	100	Makoto Tamada	Kawasaki ZX-10R	12	Retirement	18
Ret	86	Ayrton Badovini	Kawasaki ZX-10R	9	Retirement	25
Ret	77	Loïc Napoleone	Yamaha YZF-R1	7	Retirement	27
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	Kawasaki ZX-10R	6	Retirement	10
Ret	96	Jakub Smrž	Ducati 1098 RS 08	2	Accident	6
Ret	94	David Checa	Yamaha YZF-R1	0	Retirement	15
DNS	22	Luca Morelli	Honda CBR1000RR		Not started	26
DNS	13	Vittorio Iannuzzo	Kawasaki ZX-10R		Not started	23
Source:^[1]

Superbike race 2 classification

Pos	No	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	21	Troy Bayliss	Ducati 1098 F08	22	34:35.284	1	25
2	7	Carlos Checa	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+1.127	4	20
3	10	Fonsi Nieto	Suzuki GSX-R1000	22	+4.395	5	16
4	111	Rubén Xaus	Ducati 1098 RS 08	22	+6.621	11	13
5	76	Max Neukirchner	Suzuki GSX-R1000	22	+11.550	8	11
6	23	Ryuichi Kiyonari	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+11.620	19	10
7	41	Noriyuki Haga	Yamaha YZF-R1	22	+12.049	7	9
8	36	Gregorio Lavilla	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+12.134	14	8
9	83	Russell Holland	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+13.462	9	7
10	31	Karl Muggeridge	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+15.519	12	6
11	54	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+16.225	21	5
12	94	David Checa	Yamaha YZF-R1	22	+21.959	15	4
13	194	Sébastien Gimbert	Yamaha YZF-R1	22	+21.989	20	3
14	100	Makoto Tamada	Kawasaki ZX-10R	22	+29.106	18	2
15	38	Shinichi Nakatomi	Yamaha YZF-R1	22	+29.219	22	1
16	44	Roberto Rolfo	Honda CBR1000RR	22	+32.994	13
17	55	Régis Laconi	Kawasaki ZX-10R	22	+34.380	10
18	96	Jakub Smrž	Ducati 1098 RS 08	22	+42.537	6
19	84	Michel Fabrizio	Ducati 1098 F08	22	+46.623	3
20	57	Lorenzo Lanzi	Ducati 1098 RS 08	22	+47.030	17
21	86	Ayrton Badovini	Kawasaki ZX-10R	22	+1:08.601	25
Ret	3	Max Biaggi	Ducati 1098 RS 08	6	Accident	16
Ret	11	Troy Corser	Yamaha YZF-R1	4	Accident	2
Ret	88	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda CBR1000RR	3	Retirement	24
Ret	77	Loïc Napoleone	Yamaha YZF-R1	3	Retirement	27
DNS	22	Luca Morelli	Honda CBR1000RR		Not started	26
DNS	13	Vittorio Iannuzzo	Kawasaki ZX-10R		Not started	23
Source:^[2]

Supersport race classification

Pos	No	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	88	Andrew Pitt	Honda CBR600RR	21	33:51.257	1	25
2	25	Josh Brookes	Honda CBR600RR	21	+0.062	2	20
3	127	Robbin Harms	Honda CBR600RR	21	+0.597	6	16
4	99	Fabien Foret	Yamaha YZF-R6	21	+0.780	4	13
5	65	Jonathan Rea	Honda CBR600RR	21	+0.976	5	11
6	24	Garry McCoy	Triumph 675	21	+1.228	17	10
7	26	Joan Lascorz	Honda CBR600RR	21	+6.590	7	9
8	105	Gianluca Vizziello	Honda CBR600RR	21	+10.266	9	8
9	55	Massimo Roccoli	Yamaha YZF-R6	21	+10.594	14	7
10	69	Gianluca Nannelli	Honda CBR600RR	21	+10.991	10	6
11	47	Ivan Clementi	Triumph 675	21	+16.068	8	5
12	8	Mark Aitchison	Triumph 675	21	+16.245	13	4
13	81	Graeme Gowland	Honda CBR600RR	21	+16.355	20	3
14	9	Chris Walker	Kawasaki ZX-6R	21	+16.526	16	2
15	31	Vesa Kallio	Honda CBR600RR	21	+17.270	24	1
16	18	Craig Jones	Honda CBR600RR	21	+17.480	12
17	14	Matthieu Lagrive	Honda CBR600RR	21	+20.948	22
18	44	David Salom	Yamaha YZF-R6	21	+36.396	11
19	4	Lorenzo Alfonsi	Kawasaki ZX-6R	21	+45.078	28
20	77	Barry Veneman	Suzuki GSX-R600	21	+46.640	21
21	17	Miguel Praia	Honda CBR600RR	21	+52.165	29
22	121	Arnaud Vincent	Kawasaki ZX-6R	21	+57.732	34
23	199	Danilo Dell'Omo	Honda CBR600RR	21	+57.879	26
24	15	Gergő Talmácsi	Honda CBR600RR	21	+58.409	32
25	38	Grégory Leblanc	Honda CBR600RR	21	+1:04.267	23
26	75	Luka Nedog	Honda CBR600RR	21	+1:07.943	31
27	72	Attila Magda	Honda CBR600RR	21	+1:08.158	35
28	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda CBR600RR	21	+1:23.152	25
29	888	Josep Pedro Subirats	Yamaha YZF-R6	20	+1 lap	36
30	51	Santiago Barragán	Honda CBR600RR	18	+3 laps	33
Ret	57	Ilario Dionisi	Triumph 675	7	Retirement	27
Ret	37	William de Angelis	Honda CBR600RR	6	Retirement	30
Ret	21	Katsuaki Fujiwara	Kawasaki ZX-6R	2	Retirement	15
Ret	23	Broc Parkes	Yamaha YZF-R6	2	Retirement	3
Ret	61	Andrea Antonelli	Honda CBR600RR	1	Accident	19
DNS	83	Didier Van Keymeulen	Suzuki GSX-R600		Not started	18
Source:^[3]

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References

↑ "Phillip Island, Superbike – Results Race 1". sbk.perugiatiming.com. Infront Motor Sports. 2 March 2008. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
↑ "Phillip Island, Superbike – Results Race 2". sbk.perugiatiming.com. Infront Motor Sports. 2 March 2008. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
↑ "Phillip Island, Supersport – Results Race". sbk.perugiatiming.com. Infront Motor Sports. 2 March 2008. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.

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[1] "Phillip Island, Superbike – Results Race 1". sbk.perugiatiming.com. Infront Motor Sports. 2 March 2008. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.

[2] "Phillip Island, Superbike – Results Race 2". sbk.perugiatiming.com. Infront Motor Sports. 2 March 2008. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.

[3] "Phillip Island, Supersport – Results Race". sbk.perugiatiming.com. Infront Motor Sports. 2 March 2008. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.