Ten Kate Honda's Jonathan Rea fended off a late charge by Sterilgarda Yamaha's Ben Spies to take his second World Superbike win of the year at the Nurburgring in this afternoon's second race as Xeriox Ducati's Noriyuki Haga crashed out.

The Samurai of Slide handed Spies the series lead when he came together with Rea at the downhill turn one on lap five. As Rea went past on the brakes, Haga turned in and then lost the front as he had to get out of the Irishman's way.

Spies pushed Rea right to the final corner but ran wide, sat up and looked behind him to see no-one there and settled for 20 points. It means the American leaves Germany with an 18-point lead in the championship.

Haga led away from the line with BMW's Troy Corser, Carlos Checa and Stiggy Honda's Leon Haslam in tow as Rea went backwards off the line and went into the first corner in seventh but was straight past Spies on lap one and Checa moved in front of Corsa.

On lap two, Checa tried a move on Haga down into turn one but ran wide as Rea went past Haslam, Michel Fabrizio and Corser in as many corners, draggd himself into a podium spot.

A lap later, Checa put another move on Haga and made it stick as Haslam went past Corser to get himself in the top four. Checa's lead ddidn't last long, however, as Haga was back past on lap four and Rea followed him through.

Haga's crash happened one lap later and Rea made the lead his own and Haslam was promoted to third. It took the former British Superbike man two laps to get past Checa but Spies had got the hammer down and was catching the leading group.

With 12 to go, Spies did Checa going into the chicane as both Rea and Haslam dipped under the lap record. Rea had pulled a second gap on Haslam by lap 11 and with eight remaining, Spies went underneath Haslam into the chicance and pushed him wide, allowing Checa to catch and re-pass him.

This seemed to unsettle Haslam as his laptimes increased and allowed Max Biaggi to also muscle his way past, demoting the Stiggy Honda to fifth where he crossed the line. Haslam was once again suffering very bad chatter.
Tom Sykes slowly pushed his way up through the field, going past Michel Fabrizio with six laps to go, and he stayed in front of the Italian to claim eighth. Shane Byrne crashed out at half-distance and Richard Cooper did the same with five laps left.
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