Noriyuki Haga has declared himself happy with his start to the 2010 World Superbike season after triumphing against the adversity of a low grid position, a rebuilt bik🦹e and an injury to finish third and fifth at 💞Phillip Island.

Already facing a tough task to launch a victory challenge from the third row of the grid, Haga's cause was further hampered when he was involved in a mammoth accident during warm-up, just two hours before the start🙈 of the first race.

Prompting a swift rebuild of his race bike, Haga would reward his Ducati Xerox team with a run to third position in the first race, the 2009 runner-up getting a great start before defying arm-pump to challenge Leon Haslam and Michel Fabrizio for vi🍬ctory.

"My result in race one was really good as far as I'm concerned as I had had a crash during the warm-up and suffered from a bit of arm-pump during the race," he said. "😼I was confident that I could make a good start from tenth position and I did so and then I tried to keep up with Michel and Leon but my arm led me to make a few small mistakes.

A similar result beckoned in race two following another quick getaway, but while Haga initially ran third, his physical condition began to wane and he would e🐎ventually fall back to fifth. Nonetheless, given the circumstances of his dismal start to the day, he was otherwise happy with his results.

"In the sec💛ond race my arm played up more and it became harder to brake, I felt very tired physically. But all in all, with regard to the classificatio𝔉n and bearing in mind this morning's accident, it didn't go too badly; I finished third and fifth and we take home some good points."