Aprilia's Max Biaggi cruised to the Misano World Superbike double win this afternoon, taking the lead from Tom Sykes on lap three and never looking back, putting a second a lap on the field in the early stages before crossing the line ahead of Jonathan Rea and Leon Haslam.
Rea's runner-up spot means the Irishman now jumps into second place in the championship standings as Kawasaki's Sykes faded mid-race and is now third. Another crash from Carlos Checa means he scored no points but the Spaniard's crash, which involved Marco Melandri, is under investigation by the stewards.
Haslam and Rea were held up by Davide Guigliano until the half-distance, which allowed Biaggi to put more distance into them than would have been usual, but he crashed out into the last corner on lap five which gave the British pair some breathing space. Haslam, though, didn't have an answer to Rea's pace, running wide on the last lap and allowing Rea just to pull a big enough gap.
Melandri was given fourth on the result sheet while Ayrton Badovini, who put in some hard moves throughout the race, just kept ahead of his Goldbet BMW team-mate Michel Fabrizio. Sykes, meanwhile, kept Loris Baz behind him for seventh while Jakub Smrz and Matteo Baiocco rounded out the top ten.
Leon Camier got up off the floor to take the final point, just behind team-mate John Hopkins, while Eugene Laverty crashed out of top-six position. The Irishman looked like he was fighting his Aprilia in both races and gives rise to whether he is suffeirng the same fate as Camier and isn't getting anything like the same bike at his Aprilia team leader. Chaz Davies also crashed unhurt.
