Xerox Ducati's Troy Bayliss took a crash or win attitude into today's second World Superbike race at Vallelunga but it the was the former that put paid to his title chances.
The affable Aussie freely admitted that he has was thinking rostrum or hospital for the last race of today but was disappointed not to wrap up his third WSB championship.
"I gave it everything I had in the second race and was fighting to pass Haga," said Bayliss. "As I didn't know what was happening behind me, and so had no idea that Michel was about to pass Corser, I'd already decided in the closing stages, with six laps to go, that I was going to try and take Nori and either win or crash because I knew that me finishing second and Corser third wouldn't be enough to take the title and I really wanted to finish the job here today.
"I got close enough but then riding so close to the limit, it only took one tiny thing, either a little bit too much brake or too much lean, and I went down. It didn't end the way we had hoped but we move on, there are still two rounds to go and I have a good points advantage still."
