Source: WorldSBK.

Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team’s Chaz Davies has made history at California’s Laguna Seca by taking the first double World Superbike win for the Ducati Panigale on Sunday.

Davies won the opening race of the day at Laguna Seca after a lights to flag display saw the British rider take the win by 1.798s.

After several days of blazing California sun, race day at Laguna Seca for the GEICO US round, the ninth of the 2015 eni FIM Superbike World Championship season dawned with thunder and rain greeting the WorldSBK riders.

A wet warm-up saw the riders take to the track for the first time with Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) fastest in the tricky conditions but thankfully by the time race one was scheduled to start the sun was shining and the track had dried.

Davies made the perfect start, taking the hole shot before opening up a 1.6s lead at the end of lap five. Despite the Kawasaki pairing of Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea giving chase they were unable to reel in the Aruba.it Racing Ducati rider who romped to the victory, his sixth WorldSBK win and the second for the Panigale machine.

At the flag and after a tense, race long duel second and third went to Sykes and Rea, the pair pushing each other to the limit throughout. Davide Giugiano (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) finished a lonely fourth after regrouping from a poor start, getting the better of Jordi Torres (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) who rode a solid race to fifth.

Once again leading from the start in race two, Davies tried to make the break, but unlike race one he was closely followed in the early stages by the Kawasaki Racing Team pairing of Sykes and Rea, with Leon Haslam (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) running strongly in fourth.

Behind Davies by 1.406s at the flag was Sykes and Rea, the podium in race two being a carbon copy of the first encounter. Torres and Haslam were fourth and fifth respectively after a 25-lap duel.

The next round of the eni FIM Superbike World takes place in Sepang, Malaysia, in two weeks.

2015 Superbike World Championship
Round nine – Laguna Seca, USA

Race one results:
1. Chaz Davies
2. Tom Sykes
3. Jonathan Rea
4. Davide Giugliano
5. Jordi Torres
6. Alex Lowes
7. Sylvain Guintoli
8. Michael van der Mark
9. Leandro Mercado
10. Leon Camier

Race two results:
1. Chaz Davies
2. Tom Sykes
3. Jonathan Rea
4. Jordi Torres
5. Leon Haslam
6. Ayrton Badovini
7. Michael van der Mark
8. Niccolò Canepa
9. Leandro Mercado
10. Leon Camier

Championship standings:
1 Jonathan Rea 407
2 Tom Sykes 282
3 Chaz Davies 263
4 Leon Haslam 240
5 Jordi Torres 164
6 Sylvain Guintoli 136
7 Davide Giugliano 119
8 Michael van der Mark 114
9 Tati Mercado 104
10 Alex Lowes 94

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