Stiggy Honda's Leon Haslam had to ride round some serious chatter problems to take his second place behind Ben Spies in race two at Donington Park yesterday.

The Derbyshire man was in a titanic scrap with Strilgarda Ducati's Shane Byrne and Xerox Ducati's Michel Fabrizio, who had qualified second, after Haslam worked his way up from the third row of the grid.

He managed to stay ahead of the thumping V-twins and has elevated himself back to fifth place in the World Superbike championship table, just ten points behind Ten Kate Honda's Jonathan Rea.

"There was a slower pace in race two and my problem in each race was chatter. In race two I got a little bit better start and learned a  thing or two that we were struggling with," said Haslam.

"I was just catching Biaggi as he went down so it would have been another fight for third or fourth place in that race. But to hold off Fabrizio and Byrne and take second, after missing out in race one, I was pretty happy.”