Germany WSBK: Sykes wins as huge accident ends race early

Tom Sykes scores his sixth World Superbike win of the season on countback after a huge accident for Jonathan Rea and Leon Camier forces an early end.
Sykes, German WSBK 2013
Sykes, German WSBK 2013
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Tom Sykes has been awarded victory in the first World Superbike race of the day at the Nurburgring after a h🙈uge accident for Jonathan Rea and Leon Camier forced a red flag🎃 stoppage with just over a lap to go.

Sykes, who had led from the opening lap, had just been overtaken by Marco Melandri as the race entered its penultimate lap, but two sepa⭕rate crashes for Rea and Camier at turn nine would force out the red 🐼flags.

A dramatic conclusion f𒆙or Rea and Camier, who fell after hitting oil deposited by Federico Sandi's expir💫ed Pedercini Kawasaki, the pair crashed heavily into the barriers but were seen to be conscious and moving afterwards.

With the results counted back to the end of lap 18 - moments before Melandri made his pass -, the ill-timed conclusion would ultimately prove frustrating for the Italian having spent much of his race ꦆbiding his time behind Sykes before launching an attack with just two laps remaining.

Getting the jump on slow-starting pole sitter Ayrton Badovini, Melandri had led into the first bend, but was shuffled back down to second place by a charging Sykes in ♛the e🍰nd of the opening lap.

Even so, the pair, together with the fast-starting Chaz Davies and Jonathan Rea, would form a four-strong lead group that would circulate in tandem for the opening half of the race, well ahead of a chasing pack led by series leader Sylvain Guintoli and Eugene Laverty, though the latter would see his hopes of a strong finish ruined on lap four 🐲when he low-sided off.

Up front there would be little movement until a small mistake by Melandri at turn ten on lap 13 would allow Davies to༺ get in front into second position for the first time.

However, the Welshman couldn't take full advantage anꦆd found himself bumped down to third position again on lap 15 when Melandri plan𝓀ted a robust pass through the NGK Chicane.

With Sykes unable to break the feuding BMWs, it was increasingly evident that Melandri would attempt to make a pass for the win in the final couple of laps. And so it proved, Melandri lining🦋 Sykes up at the start of lap 19 to pass into the first bend and immediately put a gap between himself and the Kawasaki rider.

Seemingly on course to score BMW's long-awaited first victory (and podium) around its home ci🔯rcuit, Melandri's hopes would be dashed by the drama unfolding behind.

Beginning with tail-ender Sandi's Pedercini Kawasaki blowing up on the run up to the Schumacher S, when the leaders came around to the bend on the next lap𝐆, the top three would make it through but Rea would be sent down aꦚt high-speed, man and machine catapulting into the barriers.

Secondsꦛ later, Camier would also barrell t𝔍hrough the gravel trap as well, his Suzuki even gathering enough momentum to vault the barriers. Both riders have been taken to the medical centre for checks, but were seen to be moving immediately after the crashes.

The spectacular a❀ccidents would subsequen🦄tly prompt a race-ending red flag, with the results being counted back to the last full lap.

It meant Sykes would be awarded the win, ahead of a disappointed Melandri, while Davies rounded out 🍃t🌺he top three for his fourth podium finish of the season.

With Rea and Camier - who had been running fourth and sixth - removed from the results, Guintoli was awarded fourth position, a somewhat fortꩲuitous result that ensures he retains the series lead, albeit by just a siꦺngle point now from Sykes.

Also benefitting from the accidents ahead, Davide Giugliano and Mi🍸chel Fabrizio recovered from their respective 14th a🃏nd 13th place starting positions to claim fifth and sixth, ahead of Leon Haslam on the sole remaining PATA Honda.

Behind him, Silverstone podium winner Jules Cluzel was eighth, with Badovini coming home ninth having been unab𝔍le to make the most of his pole position in dry conditions. His Alstare Ducati team-mate Carlos Checa rounded out the top ten.

Of the remaining point-scorers, Mark Aitchison was a solid 11th place, ahead of wild-card riders Matej Smrz and Markus Reiterberger, the pair scoring𝐆 points on their WSBK debuts. Vittorio Iannuzzo picked up two points for💜 14th, while Laverty's decision to return to the race two laps down was rewarded with a single point in 15th.

Loris Baz, who was due to g𝓡et underway in fourth, didn't start the race after a heavy crash in morning warm-up𒆙.

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